Strategies adopted by basic level English teacher in teaching vocabulary: A case study

Abstract

This research entitled, Strategies Adopted by Basic Level English Teacher in Teaching Vocabulary: A Case Study intended to identify the strategies that teacher used in grade six in teaching English Vocabulary in terms of Pronunciation, Spelling, Word meaning, Word Formation and Word Use. It also aimed to explore the most frequent and least used strategies. The study was based on case study under qualitative research design. The population of the study was basic level English teachers of private school in Kathmandu district. 1 English was selected purposively by the researcher. The tool used in the present study was observation checklist and questionnaire. The researcher observed 24 classes of a selected teacher from 30 April 2023 to 29 June 2023. The overall findings of the study reflected that out of 24 observed classes the teacher used different strategies for teaching different aspect of vocabulary. The teacher used modelling, visual representation, phonetic symbols, reading aloud, drilling and dictation for teaching pronunciation. Copying and read aloud and dictation for teaching spelling. Data showed the teacher used dictation, drilling, modelling, explanation, translation, copying and read aloud and phonetic symbol frequently while teaching different aspects of vocabulary. The least strategy used by the teachers are demonstration, contrast, prefix and style and register. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic in which background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions, significance of the study, limitation of the study, and operational definitions of the key terms are included. The Second chapter covers the review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The Third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study which includes research design, population, sample and sampling strategies, study area, method of the study, data collection tools and strategies, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Likewise, the fourth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of results. It also includes analysis of data, interpretation of results and summer of the findings. The Fifth chapter deals conclusion and recommendations followed by references and appendices. The recommendation is subsumed under policy related, practice related and further research related respectively.