Techniques used by primary level english teachers to motivate students

Abstract

The present research study entitled Techniques Used by Primary Level English Teachers to Motivate Students aimed to find out the techniques used by primary level English teachers to motivate students in ELT classroom. To meet the objectives of this study, I selected 30 primary level English teachers from 15 primary level schools of Kathmandu valley as sample using purposive non-random judge mental sampling procedure to select the sample for thisstudy. Questionnaire and classroom observation checklist were used to collectthe data for this study. The findings of this study showed that eye contact,calling students by their name, teachers’ movement in the whole class,checking and crossed checking students’ classroom behaviours, cracking jokes,playing games and singing songs and rhymes were the most used techniques tocreate motivation among primary level students. Similarly, speaking loudly and clearly and frequent walks around the classroom were the best techniques to motivate primary level students in course of teaching. This thesis is organized into five chapters. The first chapter deals with thebackground ofthe study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study,research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter includes review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter includes design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, study areas/field, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures.Likewise, the fourth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of results and summary of findings and the fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations at three different areas (policy related, practice related and further research related) followed by references and appendices.