A Study on teaching Poetry at Higher Secondary Level (A Case of Compulsory English Grade XI and XII)

Abstract

This research is carried out to analyze the strategies, problems and relevance of teaching poetry at higher secondary level. The researcher found very poor and faulty strategies being used by the English language teachers. The strategies used by them were not in line with the 'Teaching stages' sufficiently. Therefore, it was found that the teachers have no clear idea about 'How to teach poetry following the stages'. The teachers were facing many problems while teaching poetry like teaching the poetry of different socio-cultural background, translating, taking interest by very few learners and so on. Despite these difficulties, teaching poetry makes much relevance in language learning. They are: poetry helps to develop language skills and aspects. Moreover, It motivates the students,gives pleasure, and develops creativity and vocabulary power and so on. The thesis is divided into four major chapters. The first chapter deals with a short introduction of English language in general, literature, values of literature, poetry and its types, objectives, strategies of teaching poetry a thigher secondary level, objectives and significance of the study and review of related literature. The second chapter is concerned with the methodology used to carryout this research work. To collect the data, both primary and secondary sources have been used. Primary sources are questionnaire to the students,questionnaire and interview schedule to the English language teachers and class observation of the teachers. Seven English language teachers and ten students from each higher secondary school, altogether seventy from Udayapur district are the sampling population. 8 Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation. The analysis was done in three sections. Section A deals with the analysis of collected data in terms of strategies, section B deals with the analysis of collected data in terms of problems and the section C deals with the analysis of collected data in terms of relevance. The fourth chapter is related to the summary, findings and recommendations. At last some recommendations are made for the improvement of the teaching poetry at higher secondary level.