Techniques and Materials used in Teaching Reading Skill

Abstract

This research entitled " Techniques and Materials Used in Teaching Reading Skill” was carried out to find out techniques of teaching reading skill and materials used by the primary level English teachers. I selected eight primary level schools situated in Rupendehi district using purposive non- random sampling procedure. In the same way, 40 classes of the eight ELT teachers from these schools were selected using the same sampling procedure. For eliciting data, class observation in terms of the checklist was used. The data collected from these tools were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive as well as statistical tools. The overall findings of the study showed that nearly 14 techniques were used in which „sensitizing‟, „skimming‟, and „scanning' were most frequent techniques. Similarly, 30 kinds of visual materials were also used in which “textbook” was used in 87.5% and comic script were 75% classes respectively. This thesis has been divided into five different chapters. The first chapter includes the background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of key terms of the study. Similarly, second chapter deals with the review of related theoretical literature, empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Third chapter deals with the methodology employed to conduct the study. It gives information about the design of the study, population and sample, sampling strategies, study area, data collection tools, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Collected data were presented, analyzed and interpreted applying statistical tools like frequency and percentage in the fourth chapter. It also includes analysis of data and interpretation of the results and summary of the findings. Accordingly, the fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations. Some recommendations for policy related, practice related and further research related are presented in this section. This chapter is followed by references and appendices