Professional Development Opportunities and Obstacles to Primary Level English Language Teachers
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Faculty of English
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This study seeks to identify the Professional Development Opportunities
and Obstacles to Primary Level English Language Teachers of
Institutional Schools in Bharatpur Municipality of Chitwan District. The
researcher, therefore, applied a questionnaire, which was filled by forty
primary level English teachers who were selected by random sampling method,
Similarly ten principals of different school were selected by non-random
purposive method to elicit data/information. A set of questionnaire and a
structured interview schedule were the tools of data collection. After the
analysis and interpretation of the raw data it was found that there is high
opportunity for the professional development as the teacher get any facility at
their schools. It is further found that they have good English environment,
good library with many books, cognitive environment and communicative and
good administration for their professional development. It was also found that
lack of high qualitative training program as per need unbearable heavy
teaching load, lack of promotion, less remuneration, negative attitude of
teachers are the major obstacles to professional development. Most participants
agreed that the sudden and rare visits of supervisors
are the greatest institutional professional development obstacles. They agreed
that money and financial issues are the main self-directed professional
development obstacles. Majority also believed the unbearable heavy teaching
load, lack of time, overcrowded classes, and absence of promotion are the most
important professional development obstacles from the nature of the work.
Likewise, from the interviews, there were no differences in interviewees'
responses due to gender or academic qualification variables, but there were
differences due to experience and age.
This study has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the
introduction general background, statement of the problem, rational of the
study, objectives of the study, research question, significance of the study,
delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The
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second chapter deals with the review of related literature and conceptual
framework included for the study under which review of related literature,
implications of the review for the study and theoretical and conceptual
framework. Chapter three consists of methods and procedures of the study
adopted for the study under which design of the study, areas of the study,
sampling procedures, tools for data collection, data collection procedure, data
analysis and interpretation procedure. Chapter four deals with result and
discussion, concrete thing of the thesis which has been included results,
interpretation of data, opportunities and obstacles to primary level English
language and. Lastly, chapter five deals with conclusion and implications of
the thesis which has been included summary of the findings, conclusion and
implications.