Students’ Attitudes Towards Studyingliterature

Abstract

This study entitled “Students’ Attitudes Towards Studying Literature”was an attempt to findout the attitudes of the students towards the course‘Teaching English Literature’ ( Eng. Ed. 392) prescribed for the studentsof B.Ed. third year as an elective subject majoring in English Education.The researcher selected eighty students of M.Ed. firstyear majoring inEnglish, Faculty of Education, T.U. Kirtipur. One set of questionnaireconsisting of both closed-ended and open-ended questions was providedin order to collect their attitudes towards the course. On the basis of thecollected data, theattitudes of the students were determined, analyzed andtabulated. The main findings of the study showed that the course has bothstrong and weak aspects. The strong aspects are greater in number thanweaker ones. As a whole, the students had positive attitudes towards thecourse. The researcher found that the course TEL (Eng. Ed. 392) has beenquite useful for teaching learning language as well as to know about theworld and historical development of literature and study other subjectswritten in English.It is very practical, useful and interesting for thestudents which encourage them to study and make active participation inconversation to develop communicative competence.The study consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction.It consists of general background of the study, review of the relatedliterature, objectives of the study, significance of the study, anddefinitions of the specific terms. Similarly, chapter two introduces themethodology adopted for the study. It incorporates sources of data,population of study, sampling procedures, and tools for data collection,processes of data collection and the limitations of the study. Likewise,chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the data. Finally,Chapter four incorporates findings and recommendations.