Activities Used in Teaching Novel

Abstract

This research work entitled'Activities Used in Teaching Novel'attempted tofind out the activities used by the teachers of grade twelve while teachingnovel. It also tried to discover the uniformity between the teachers' and thestudents' responses regarding theactivities used in teaching novel. The majortools of data collection were teachers' and students' questionnaires and classobservation form. The primary data was collected from 25 English teachers and50 major English students of grade twelve from Bardiadistrict who wereselected purposively. All the teachers were provided questionnaires and 5teachers were selected purposively for class observation. Four classes of eachteacher were observed. Ten students were selected purposively from eachschool and given questionnaire at the end of the 4 th day's class observation. Thecollected data has been analyzed and interpreted using simple statistical tools.It was found that the teachers used different activities, viz. giving backgroundinformation, discussingtitle, providing signpost questions, describingcharacters, giving summary, providing critical analysis, asking students to writecritical analysis and so on. It was also found that there was a minimaluniformity but a maximal difference between their responses regarding theactivities used in teaching novel. This study consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with generalbackground, review of related literature, objectives and significance of thestudy. Chapter two deals with the procedure applied tocarry out the research. Itincludes sources of data, sample population and sampling procedure, tools fordata collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapterthree comprises analysis and interpretation of the data. Chapter four deals withthe major findings of the study and some recommendations.