Use of Newspaper Cutouts for Teaching vocabulary

Abstract

This study entitled “Use of Newspaper Cutouts for Teaching Vocabulary”aims at finding out the practices of using newspaper cutouts for teaching vocabulary in secondary level and exploring the teachers’ perceptions on the role of using newspaper cutouts for teaching vocabulary. I used non-random purposive sampling procedure to selectthirty secondary level English language teachers teaching in private and public schools in Banke district. I used questionnaire including both the close-ended and open-ended questionnaire as the research tool. The collected data have been presented in tables and pie-charts; and analyzed and discussed qualitatively and quantitatively. The major findings of the research showed that the use of newspaper cutouts was ‘occasionally’ practiced in schools as most of the teachers only ‘occasionally’ used newspaper cutouts for teaching vocabulary. However, most of the teachers supported that the using newspaper cutouts played significant role in teaching vocabulary. The thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter. It includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with review of theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the study and conceptual framework of the study. The third chapter incorporates with methods and procedures of the study which incorporates design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools and techniques, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedure and ethical considerations.The fourth chapter consists of the rigorous analysis and interpretation of results. The fifth chapter encompasses the findings, conclusion and recommendations of this research in different levels such as policy, practice and further research ones. References and appendices form the concluding part of the thesis.