Techniques of Teaching Speaking Adopted in Language Institutes

Abstract

The present study entitled “Techniques of Teaching Speaking Adopted in Language Institutes” aims to find out the techniques used in teaching speaking by the instructors in different language institutes. This research study was done using both primary and secondary sources of data. For primary data, I observed the classes of English language teachers with a pre- prepared checklist and distributed a set of questionnaire to those teachers as well. After the study and analysis it is found that discussion, role play, pair work and dialogue were commonly used techniques of teaching speaking. The study is presented in four major chapters. The first chapter of the study deals with the general background, the English language and overall view, the English language and its importance in Nepal , language teaching, language skill , teaching of speaking, techniques of teaching speaking and techniques of teaching speaking in language institutes. The second chapter deals with the methodology used in the study: the sources of data, sample population, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, data collection procedures, etc. The third chapter is the main part of the study which includes analysis and interpretation of the data. The last chapter deals with the findings and recommendations made after the analysis of the data.