Lesson Planning Practices of English Teachers

Abstract

The present study entitled Lesson Planning Practices of English Teachers aimed to explore the lesson planning practice of English language teacher and to find out the perceived benefits of having lesson plan in English language teaching. To accomplish this study, I used narrative inquiry as a research design. It was qualitative in nature. I collected field data through classroom observation and interview with the selected participants. I selected six basic level English teachers from three different schools of Kathmandu valley. As a sample those six English teachers were selected by using purposive sampling procedure to secure their participation in this study. The data were analyzed and interpreted by vary thematic approach in which themes were developed at first and then they were further discussed with data excerpts. This study found that English language teachers have been teaching their daily basis activities based on their early teaching preparation. It found that early preparation made their teaching job easy and helped them to be confident in their teaching and learning. They had the habit of consulting textbook, training materials, teacher guide, and other reference materials. They found perceived that IRF model could be effective and it resulted better to plan the lesson for teaching English. They extended teacher and student interaction in all the phases of teaching i.e. before, middle and after sequence of the lesson. Similarly, the lesson planning benefited them by empowering to present their exercises all the more professionally. It helped them to clarify certain sections successfully before the test. It would make teaching more student-friendly and extremely fascinating. In the opinion, teachers lesion planning made them to bring consistency in teaching. They could effective language learning teaching in the class with the use of planning.

This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introduction of the study. There is review of the related literature and the conceptual framework is presented in the second chapter. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study. Similarly, fourth chapter is about the analysis and interpretation of data. Finally, fifth chapter presents findings, conclusion and recommendations.