Perception of Secondary Level English Language Teachers on Testing Listening Skill

Abstract

The present thesis entitled ‘Perception of Secondary Level English Teachers on Testing Listening Skill’ aimed to find out the perception of secondary level teachers on testing listening skill. The data were collected using the questionnaire to the secondary level English language teachers. The sample size consists of 30 teachers from 30 government aided schools of Kathmandu district. This study shows that the majority of the teachers were found having good theoretical insights on testing listening skill in the secondary classes. However, they do not test listening on a regular basis as equal to testing reading and writing. The highest number of teachers (50%) perceived that testing listening includes teaching as a basic skill and 26% of teachers perceived that it was tested satisfactorily. This thesis is divided into five chapters and other sub-chapters. The first chapter deals with the general background, statement of the problem, research questions, objectives of the study, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of theoretical literature, empirical review of the related literature, implications of review and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter explains research methods and procedures of the study. It incorporates design of the study, population and sample, data collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures in detail. The fourth chapter deals with results and discussion. The collected data are presented in this chapter. On the basis of analyzed data, summary, conclusion and implications have been made in the fifth chapter. References and appendices have been presented in the final part of this thesis.