Classroom Activities in Teaching Speaking Skill

Abstract

The present study classroom activities in teaching speaking skill aims at findings the strategies of students` activities in teaching speaking skills. For this study, I selected ten English teachers and thirty students of secondary level from Kathmandu district by applying non-random sampling procedure. A questionnaire consisting of both closed-ended and open-ended questions were used the research tools for data collection. The major findings of this study used of gestures, facial expression, and eye contact with the students‟ performance capacity and skills of students in teaching speaking were found more effective strategies in private school than government-aided schools. The findings of this study teaching speaking skills were good private schools than government aided schools. Speaking skills were very good of the students because it helps the students' pronunciation, vocabulary, speech and sound. It was found that about of the classes had good teaching speaking skill. However some of the schools of them had just speaking which were the results of poor concentration of the teachers in the classroom. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study, and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter presents the review of the related literature and conceptual framework. Similarly the third chapter deals collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Likewise, the forth chapter presents the systematically collected data which have been analyzed and interpreted descriptively and analytically and this chapter also presents major findings and summary and analytically and this chapter also presents major findings and summary of the study on the basis of analysis and interpretation. The final, that is, fifth chapter deals with conclusions and recommendations on the basis of the major findings of the study. The fifth chapter is also followed by the references and appendices.