Aspects of Teaching Vocabulary Adopted by Secondary Level English Teachers

Abstract

The present thesis entitled ‘Aspects of Teaching Vocabulary Adopted by Secondary Level English Teachers’ aimed to find out the aspects of vocabulary taught by secondary level English teachers and, to identify the techniques used while teaching those aspects. To achieve the objectives, a class observation form and a questionnaire were prepared as the tools for data collection. Ten secondary level English teachers were selected from ten schools of Kathmandu district. Four classes of each teacher, forty classes in total were observed and a questionnaire was distributed to each teacher. The data collected from the class observation and teachers’ views were analyzed and interpreted statistically. The findings showed that the teachers taught the various aspects and sub-aspects of vocabulary with various degrees of importance. Almost all the aspects of vocabulary teaching were taught in five degrees of importance i.e. always, frequently, occasionally, rarely and never by different number of teachers. Some aspects were always focused by more teachers, some were frequently focused, some occasionally focused, some rarely focused and some aspects never focused at all by most of the teachers.

This thesis consists of four chapters: introduction, methodology, analysis and interpretation, and findings and recommendations. Chapter one presents the general background, aspects, techniques, skills, problems, objectives and principles of vocabulary teaching, review of related literature, objective of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology applied to conduct the study. It consists of source of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools and process of data collection and limitations of study. Chapter three contains the analysis and interpretation of data collected from informants. The data were analyzed and interpreted using simple statistics and presented in terms of tables, charts and diagrams. The last chapter includes findings and recommendations drawn on the basis of analysis and interpretation of data which is followed by references and appendices.