Assumptions and Practices of English as a Medium of Instruction in Community Schools of Nepal

Abstract

This research entitled Assumptions and Practices of English as a Medium of Instruction in community Schools of Nepal was an attempt to explore the perception of basic level English teachers towards EMI in terms of its assumptions and practices in community schools of Nepal and to identify the existing practices, trend and necessity of EMI in community schools of Nepal. Narrative inquiry research design was followed to complete this study. The respondents for this research were selected by using purposive, non random sampling procedure. The primary data were collected from five basic level English teachers of two different schools of Dhangadhi, kailali. Unstructured interview was the main tool for data collection. The Collected data were analyzed and interpreted by using thematic analysis in descriptive and qualitative way. The major finding of this study was that both of the public schools are practicing EMI in their schools to provide quality education, increase enrollment rate, reduce dropout rate, for reputation of the institution etc. Similarly, this study also found that there are various challenges in implementing EMI such as diversity in class, unavailability of authentic textbooks and lack of English Environment for students at their home. This thesis contains five chapters. The first chapter deals with background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definitions of key terms. The second chapter comprises review of the related theoretical and empirical studies, implications of the studies and conceptual framework. Likewise, third chapter consists design of the study and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategies, research tools, sources of data, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical consideration. The fourth chapter includes analysis of data and interpretation of results. Similarly, the fifth chapter focuses findings, conclusions and recommendations based on analysis and interpretation of the study. The references and appendices have been included in the last part of the thesis.