The Need of English as a Compulsory Subject at Faculty of Education: An Attitudinal Study

Abstract

This thesis has been prepared to find out the attitudes of Master’s level students towards the need of English as a compulsory subject at FOE. To accomplish the objectives of the study, the researcher selected one hundred students of Central Department of Education who were of M.Ed. 2nd year and thirty lecturers of FOE Central Department of Education T.U., Kirtipur Kathmandu. They were chosen by using stratified random sampling procedure. For collecting data, two sets of questionnaire, one set for the students and next set for the teacher were administered. There were 20 questions, consisting of eleven close ended and 9 open-ended for the students and eleven close ended for the teachers. The major findings of the study are that the students want English to be introduced as a compulsory paper in B.Ed. 2nd year also. Students feel the need of compulsory English course in M.Ed. level which helps them a lot to study master’s level. The thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study with general background i.e. overview on the English language, status of English, the English language situation in the past and present and its importance in Nepal in the present day world. This chapter also deals with the review of related literature, the objective and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology used such as sources of data, population of the study, sample population, sampling procedure, tools and processes for data collection and limitations of the study. Then chapter three presents analysis and interpretation of data using different tables and percentage. And finally chapter four consists of findings and recommendations, which were derived from the analysis and interpretation of data. Some recommendations have been made on the basis of the findings of the study. Eventually, references and appendices are given.