Developing Speaking Skills Through Task Based Language Teaching

Abstract

The research entitled Developing Speaking Skills Through Task Language Teaching was aimed to analyze the roles of Task Based Language Teaching in teaching English as a foreign language at the secondary level. For this purpose, Mangal Higher Secondary School, Kirtipur - 10 was selected for the study. This research is primarily a student-centered approach, and 40 students from grade IX were taken as sample population placed randomly into a controlled and experimental group. The students in the experimental group performed writing task using task-based language teaching techniques, while those in the controlled group practiced writing skills using traditional writing exercise. Test items and questionnaires were the main tools for data collection. A pre-test was administered using the same test items of the pre-test. Then, performance scores of the students were compared and analyzed. Similarly, teachers should be able to create such situation where students hold meaningful tasks that we promoted their speaking proficiency. The finding of the research indicated that the use of task-based language teaching can develop students' speaking skill. The pretest score shows the value of learning completeness was only 14.2%. The post-test score revealed that the students' speaking skills developed with satisfactory results as 16.5%. The students managed to complete different task and to evaluate their learning in pair and group work. This learning experience enable the students develop their speaking skills significantly in the future. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter includes background of the research, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, rationale of the study, operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter is related to the review of the related literature and conceptual framework. Likewise, third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study under which research design of the study, population sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedure, ethical considerations are mentioned. In the same way, the fourth chapter consists of results and discussion of the study. Finally, the fifth chapter includes the summary, findings, conclusion and implications. Implication of the study at policy related, practice related and further research related are suggested. The references and appendices are mentioned at the end.