Techniques Used in Teaching English Atgrade Five : A Case study

Abstract

Thisresearch entitled "Techniques Used in Teaching English at grade Five : ACase Study" is an attempt to bring out the clear picture of existing classroompractices i.e. techniques used in teaching English at grade five. The researchwas carried out using both primary and secondary data. The data for the studyhadbeen collected through classroom observation. I observedforty classes of ateacher teaching at grade five. I selected the school and teacher by usingnon-random purposive sampling.The collected data hadbeen analyzed andinterpreted qualitatively. The research finding shows that though there wasgradual progression towards usingstudent centered techniques, still theclassroom is dominatedby the teacher centered techniques.Student centeredtechniques like role play, pairwork, dialogue reading,guessing games, groupwork, individual work and teacher centered techniques like lecture,explanation, demonstration and illustration were used toteach English at gradefive. This thesis consists of five chapters and other many sub-chapters. The firstchapter deals with the general background of the study, statement of theproblem, rationale andobjectives of the study, research questions, significanceand delimitations of the study, and operational definitionsof the key terms. Thesecond chapter consists of review of theoretical literature, review of relatedempirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptualframework. Similarly, the third chapter is about the methodology used inthisstudy. It deals with the design of the study,population of the study, samplingprocedure and researchtools anddata collectionprocedures. Likewise, thefourth chapter consists of resultsand discussion,andthe analysis andinterpretation of collected data. In the same way, the fifth chapter presents thesummary, conclusions and implications (Policy level, practice level and furtherresearch) of the study on the basis of the analysis and interpretationof data,followed by references and appendices.