Strategies adopted by secondary level teachers in teaching pronunciation

Abstract

Teaching pronunciation teaching is the basic and very essential aspect of language teaching which directly related with successful communication. In this concern, the study entitled Strategies by Secondary Level Teachers in Teaching Pronunciation was an attempt to investigate into the perception of teachers in teaching pronunciation and to explore the strategies used by them. Survey research design was followed to complete this study. The researcher employed questionnaire having close ended and open ended and observation checklist for data collection. For this, thirty five secondary English language teachers of Dadeldhura district were selected purposively by using non-random sampling procedures. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted statistically and descriptively with their theme. The findings indicated that most of the teachers preferred to use drilling and they found it the easiest technique to conduct inside the classroom while teaching pronunciation. Similarly, it was also found that teachers also used minimal pairs, visual representation phonemes symbol, pronunciation and spelling activities and listening and reading activates. The teachers considered that strategy made teaching pronunciation effective and created attitude to have native like awareness regarding pronunciation. However, they did not accept to follow native like pronunciation to facilitate their students and emphasized that the way of pronunciation could be nativized. This study conations five chapters. The first chapter deals with the background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter comprises review of the related theoretical and empirical studies, implication of the studies and conceptual framework. Likewise, third chapter consists design of the study and method of the study, population, sampling strategies, research tools, and sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical consideration. The fourth chapter includes analysis and interpretation of the data. Moreover¸ the fifth chapter deals with findings, conclusion and recommendation based on the analysis and interpretation of the study. At the last part of the study references and appendices are attached.