Techniques used by the Teachers in Teaching Free Writing

Abstract

The current study entitled Techniques Used by the Teachers in Teaching Free Writing. The study was an attempt to find out the techniques adopted by the secondary level English teachers in teaching free writing at secondary level. It also aimed to find out the teachers’ opinions towards teaching free writing. In order to achieve these objectives, eight secondary level English teachers of Kathmandu valley were selected as the sample of the study through the use of purposive non-random sampling procedure. And observation checklist and questionnaire were used as the data collection tools. The data were collected, analyzed and interpreted by using simple statistical tools and description. The findings of the study showed that, all the teachers used these techniques in good way, they are: providing importance of writing composition, giving the significance of writing composition of that particular topic and asking the students to check their composition again to ensure clarity. And most of the teachers used oral medium for instruction in their classes. It was also found that the techniques that the teachers applied in real classroom teaching were not matching with what they theoretically mentioned in the questionnaire. Regarding the teachers’ views discussion, arranging information, brainstorming, making notes and rough draft writing are the major techniques for teaching free writing. So, they suggested that, curriculum should be design according to level, need, interest and age of the students for effective teaching free writing, use different vocabulary games, provide clear guidelines to the students and encourage the students and give positive feedback and so on for effective teaching free writing. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter encompasses introduction of the study. It incorporates the background of the study, statement of the Problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, second chapter deals with the review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the design of the study, population, sample and sampling procedures, data collection tools, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical considerations. Similarly, forth chapter consists of the analysis and interpretation of the results and fifth chapter deals with the conclusion and recommendations. The concluding chapter is followed by the references and appendixes that were used in the thesis.