Attitudes of B.Ed. Students Towards Learning compulory English: A Case of B.Ed.1 St Year

Abstract

The purpose of the present research was to find out students' attitudestowards learning Compulsory English in B.Ed level. The researcher selected fourcampuses from Kathmandu valley. They are namely: Mahendra Ratna Campus,Tachal, I.C.S. Education Campus,Lalit Multiple Campus and Sanothimi Campus.For this study, the researcher selected 100 students from the area. The researcher used a set of questionnaire consisting of closed endedquestions and a few open ended questions in order to collect the requiredinformation from the selected students, which was expected to meet the objectivesof the study. This study was necessary in order to make teaching learning of thiscourse more relevant and upgrade the standard of the students in the Englishlanguage in B.Ed. level. For this, the researcher was concerned to find out thepresent interest of the students' attitudes towards learning English. Keeping thesefacts in mind, the researcher carried out this research and collected data. Thecollected data from the informants were analyzed and interpreted to determinestudents' attitude towards learning English. It was found that they were highlypositive towards learning English. They also demanded compulsory English inB.Ed. second and third year. The thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study interms of general background, review of related literature, objectives of the studyand significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology applied to carry out the research work,that includes sources of data, sample population and sampling procedures, tool fordata collection, process of data collection and limitation of the study. Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data collectedfrom the four campuses. Chapter four presents the findings and recommendations.