Strategies Employed in Teaching Speaking Skill

Abstract

The present study entitled "Strategies Employed in Teaching Speaking Skill" aimed at finding out strategies employed in teaching speaking by teachers of private schools and compare those strategies with that of public school teachers'. In order to do so, the researcher collected the data from lower secondary teachers of the Kathmandu district. The sample population consists of twenty teachers of both public and private schools which were selected by using non-random sampling procedure and eighty classes of both public and private school teachers were observed. The researcher consulted primary and secondary sources. Questionnaire and class observation check list were the main tools for the data collection. The researcher found that private school teachers conducted pre-communicative, controlled communicative, free communicative and real life situational activities for teaching speaking. The comparison showed that majority of the public and private school teachers conducted similar kinds of activities in their presentation. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study in terms of general background of the English language, language teaching, strategies of teaching speaking, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology i.e. how the research was carried out. This chapter includes sources of data, sampling procedure, tools, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The analysis and interpretation of data has been presented in chapter three. Simple statistical tools (percent) and tables have also been used to make presentation and interpretation more vivid. On the basis of the analyzed data, some findings and recommendations have been pinpointed in chapter four.