Teaching of Speakingat The Lower Secondarylevel: An Analysis of Cl Assroom Activities

Abstract

The present study entitled“Teaching of Speaking at the LowerSecondary Level: An Analysis of Classroom Activities” aims atidentifying activities used forteaching speaking and practical constraintsin conducting speaking activities. This research study was done usingboth primary and secondary sources of data. For primary data, heobserved classes of lower secondary level teachers with a preparedchecklist and distributed them a set of questionnaire as well. After thestudy and analysis, it is found that group work, pair work and discussionare commonly used speaking activities and inhibition, lack of physicalfacility and mother tongue use are the main problems in teachingspeaking. The first chapter of the study deals with the general background,language teaching and learning, language skills, teaching speaking,components of speaking, stages for teaching speaking, strategies forteaching speaking, activities for teaching speaking, etc. The second chapter deals with the methodology used in the study:the sources of data, sample population, sampling procedure, tools for datacollection, data collection procedures, etc. The third chapter is the main part of the study which includesanalysis and interpretation of the data. The last chapter encompasses with the findings andrecommendations made after the analysis of the data.