For English Teachers Monitoring of Practice Professional Development
Date
2012
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Central department of English Education
Abstract
The present study entitled “Practice of Monitoring for English Teachers Professional
Development” aimed to identify the monitoring practices employed by English language
teachers of Shankhuwa-sabha district. It also aimed to identify the benefits of monitoring
practices for their professional development and to suggest some pedagogical
implications. The research study was mainly based on the primary sources of data, which
was collected from secondary school of Shankhuwa-Sabha district. The schools were
selected by using purposive sampling procedure. The data was collected with the help of
interview. The interview consists of fifteen open-ended questions. The systematically
collected data have been analyzed and interpreted discriptively and analytically. This
study shows that almost all the secondary level English language teachers had positive
attitude towards monitoring practices. It also shows some monitoring practices employed
by secondary level English language teachers' of Sankhuwa –Sabha district and their
perceived benefits of those monitoring practices for their professional development. This
study found that there was a gap between teachers' knowledge and classroom practices. English language teachers considered monitoring practices as an effective means for their
professioal development but its practice in their professional field was deplorable. This study consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background of
the study, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, and significance of the
study. The second chapter deals with the methodology used in the study, i.e. sources of
data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools of data collection, process of data
collection, and limitations of the study. The third chapter presents the systematically
collected data which have been analyzed and interpreted descriptively and analytically. The fourth chapter deals with the major findings and recommendations which have been
derived on the basis of analysis and interpretation of data. The fourth chapter is followed
by the references and appendices.
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English Teachers, Professional Developmen, Monitoring, Practice