Teacher's beliefs on practices of communicative language teaching

Abstract

The present thesis entitled Teachers’ Beliefs on Practices of Communicative Language Teaching aimed to find out the English teachers’ beliefs on the use of CLT in ELT classes and the problems they face in implementing it. Keeping the objectives in consideration, 30 English teachers from 30 different schools 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 many ELT teachers hold positive beliefs about CLT but they feel it is difficult to apply in the classroom due to various reasons like students’ low proficiency in English, their unwillingness to take part in classroom activities, lack of required resources, lack of teachers accountability. And it has also been found that many ELT teachers of Sunsari apply CLT at least sometimes. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one is 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 definition 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.