Teachers' perception towards and Practices of Techniques Used in Teaching Communicative Functions

Abstract

The thesis entitled ‘Teachers' Perception towards and Practices of Techniquesused in Teaching Communicative Functions’has been carried out to find outteachers’perception towards techniques and its practicesin teachingcommunicative functions at lower secondary level. The survey design was usedto accomplish this research work. The researcher selected ten lower secondaryschools of Sindhuli district and thirtyteachers fromeach of theselectedschools. Sheused judgmental sampling procedure to sample the population.Similarly, shecollected data through questionnaire and classroom observation.She kept the recordofthe techniques used by the teachers while teachingcommunicative functions during her period of observation. The collected datawere analyzed andinterpreted qualitativelyand quantitatively. Sheused simplestatistical tools like frequency and percentage to present qualitative data asquantitatively.From the analysis and interpretation of the data, the result of thisstudy showed that, most of the teachers have positive attitude towards learnercentered techniques (group work, discussion, pair work, interaction betweenteachers and students,dialogue picturedescription, oral interview) and theyhave been practicing those techniques in teaching communicative functions atlower secondary level. This thesisis divided intofive chapters. The first chapter deals with theintroduction of the topic in which background of the study, statement of theproblem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study,delimitations of the study, and operational definitionof the key terms areincluded. The second chapter covers the review of related theoretical literature,review of related empirical literature, implications of the study, and conceptualframework. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of thestudy which includes design of the study, populations, sample and samplingstrategy, research tools, sources ofdata, data collection procedure, data analysisproceduresand ethical considerations. Likewise, the fourth chapter presents theanalysis and interpretation of data. It also includes analysis of data and interpretation oftheresults.Fifthchapterdeals with findings, conclusionandrecommendations followed by references and appendices. The recommendationis subsumed under policy related, practice relatedand further researchrelatedrespectively.