Use of Instructional Materials by Secondary Level English Teachers

Abstract

This study was on Use of Instructional Materials by Secondary Level English Teachers. Themain purpose of the present study was to find out the teachers’ perceptions and practices on using instructional materials for ELT classes. The researcher selected the government aided and private schools of Rukum District. The total sample of this study consisted of 6 secondary level English teachers who were chosen using purposive non-random procedure. It was a survey research. The tools the present researcher used were questionnaire and observational checklist. The data collected from the teachers was compared, analyzed and interpreted to find out teachers’ perceptions and practices on using instructional materials for ELT classes at secondary level. From this study, it was found that using instructional materials are essential and very effective to teach the English at secondary level. The teachers told that using instructional materials help teachers to teach the English effectively and instructional materials are authentic valuable materials for effective teaching learning activities. It was also found that using instructional materials help to develop students’ creative, reasoning, evaluating, appreciating and interpretive skill as well as teachers' skill to teaching. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter includes the background of the study, statement of the problem, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study, operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter deals with the review of related literature and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with methods and procedure of the study adopted during the research study, population and sample, sampling strategy, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures. The fourth chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of results. The fifth chapter deals with conclusions and recommendations. In the final part of this thesis, references and appendices are included.