Attitudes of the Prospective English Language Teachers towards the Teaching License

Abstract

The present study entitled "Attitudes of the Prospective English Language Teachers towards the Teaching License" attempts to find out the attitudes of the prospective English language teachers towards the teaching license in Nepal. The study was extended to find out two important areas: needs/relevancies and process/mechanism of the teaching license. To accomplish this study a set of questionnaire was prepared and distributed to 100 informants (i.e. students of M.Ed. English), having license for teaching at the secondary level. After the analysis and interpretation of the responses, it is found that the majority of the respondents are positive towards the need of teaching license in Nepal. But they are in favor of change or reformation in the existing process and mechanism i.e. grading, renewal system and subject wise licensing. This study consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study in terms of general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definitions of the specific terms used. Chapter two deals with the methodology applied to conduct the study. This consists of the sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the raw data obtained from the informants. The data were analyzed and interpreted by using simple statistical tools and presented with the help of tables, charts and diagrams. Finally, chapter four deals with the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications of the study.