M.ED. English Students' Perception toward thesis writing

Abstract

The present study entitled “M.Ed. English Students’ Perception towards Thesis writing” is an attempt to find out perception of the students towards thesis writing. I utilized both primary and secondary source of data for this study. The sample of the study consisted of 40 students of M.Ed. second year. They were selected using non-random sampling procedure. The questionnaire was used as the main tool for collection of data in which both open ended and close ended questions were used. The main finding of this study is thesis writing at M.Ed. English is appropriate subject and it provides both theoretical and practical knowledge to the students. Thesis writing is a guideline for overcoming problems in teaching learning process but availability of technology and sufficient material is a problem so the university and colleges should provide them and students must be motivated to conduct research. The thesis is divided into five different chapters. The first chapter, 'Introduction' includes the background, statement of the problem, rationale, objectives, research questions, significance, and delimitation of the study. In the second chapter, I have tried to show the store house of the knowledge by reviewing theoretical literature and empirical literature. On the basis of which conceptual framework was developed. The 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 are presented, analyzed and interpreted in the forth chapter. It is divided into two sections. In the first section students' opinion collected from closed ended questions and second section students' opinion collected from open ended are presented and analyzed in different parameters. The fifth chapter summarizes and concludes the whole study in the first two sections. Some implications of the study are presented in the second section. The chapter is followed by references and appendixes to make the study reliable, valid and authentic.