Teaching English in Multilingual Classrooms: Challenges Faced and Strategies Employed

Abstract

The present study entitled "Teaching English in Multilingual Classrooms:Challenges Faced and Strategies Employed" has main objectives to identify thechallenges faced by English language teachers in multilingual classroom and toexplore the possible strategies they use to deal with them. The design of this studywas case study. The data were collectedby using semi-structured interview andclassroom observation. The total sample were four English language teachers fromsecondary and basic schools of Tehrathum district, Aathrai Rural Municipality. Totake the sample for the study, I adopted non-random convenience samplingprocedures. I analyzed and interpreted the collected data from descriptive point ofview. After the analysis and interpretations of data, it has been found thatmanaging teaching materials, learner's interest, medium of instruction, mixedability class, learner's participation, and individual awareness and discipline arethe main challenges. The strategies they used to face challenges are feel confident,develop rapport, teach with well-planned lesson, create student centeredenvironment,use of ICT, body language, teaching materials, mother tongue as amedium of instruction. This study consists of five chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction whichincludes background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study,research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study andoperational definitions of the key teams. And, Chapter two deals with the reviewof the different literatures and conceptual framework of the research. Similarly,chapter three deals with the methodology adopted for the study in terms of sourcesof data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools and process of datacollection and ethical consideration. Likewise, chapter four contains the analysisand interpretation of the data collected from informants. Finally, chapter five dealswith the findings, conclusion and recommendations of the study.