Techniques of Teaching Reading Skill in English at Basic Level

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Techniques of teaching reading in English at basic level (a study in basic level schools of Itahari sub-metropolitan city,Sunsari)” was carried out to find out techniques and materials used by the English language teachers in teaching reading at basic level. The researcher had selected 15 schools situated in Itahari sub- metropolitan city of Sunsari district using purposive nonrandom sampling procedure. In the same way,15 ELT selected teachers from those selected schools were selected using the same sampling procedure were observed by using checklist to collect data and a set of questionnaires were also used. The data collected from these tools were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive as well as statistical tools. The overall findings of the study showed that,majority of the teachers have received trainings and all of the teachers feel interesting and exciting in teaching reading skill. All of the teachers make students participation in pre-teaching activities,make students read in their own way,motivate the students before teaching reading.All of the teachers faced low vocabulary power of the students and lack of sufficient teaching materials in their schools as the main problems in teaching reading and asked related questions of the reading exercise to evaluate the students. Explanation is the mostly used technique in teaching and prediction, strip story techniques are not founded to be used in teaching reading. All 15 teachers mentioned description of the hard words and explanation as the mostly used technique of teaching reading in English. Rest of the other teachers mentioned revision of previous reading, pair work, group work, demonstration, discussion and other technique as mostly used techniques. It was found that all of the teachers mostly used textbook and pictures/pamphlets in teaching reading. IX This thesis has been divided into five different chapters. The first chapter includes the background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study. Similarly, second chapter deals with the review of related theoretical literature, empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Third chapter deals with the methodology employed to conduct the study. It gives information about the design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Collected data were presented, analyzed and interpreted applying statistical tools like frequency and percentage in the fourth chapter. It also includes analysis of data and interpretation of the results and summary of the findings. Accordingly, the fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations. Some recommendations for policy related, practice related and further research related are presented in this section. This chapter is followed by references and appendices.