Teachers’ Practice of Using Different Activities for Teaching Poetry

Abstract

The present thesis entitled Teachers’ Practice of Using Different Activities for Teaching Poetry aimed to find out teachers’ practice of using different activities for teaching poetry. Keeping the objective in consideration, 30 English teachers from 10 different campuses/colleges of Sunsari and Morang districts were sampled through non-random purposive sampling procedure. A set of structured questionnaire was the tool of data collection. After analysis and interpretation of data, it has been found that the ELT teachers of Sunsari and Morang practice various activities at pre, while and post teaching phases and they face several problems in course of teaching poetry. Teachers prefer to apply teacher centered activities in comparison to learner centered activities. It has also been found that teaching figurative language, giving historical and cultural background information of the poem, giving introduction of the poet, analyzing poem from different perspectives, preteaching vocabularies, summarizing poem, writing review of the poem, and debating on the theme of the poem are the most important activities of teaching poetry preferred by the respondent teachers. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one is an introductory part which includes background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study, and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, chapter two includes the review of the related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study under which design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, study area, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedures are mentioned. Likewise, chapter four includes analysis and interpretation of results and summary of findings. Chapter five includes conclusions and recommendations at three different areas i.e., policy related, practice related, and further research related. Finally, the references and appendices are included