Struggle of Subject Untrained Teachers Working as English Teachers inn EFL/ESL Context: A Narrative Inquiry
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Central Department of English Education
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This thesis entitled Struggle of Subject Untrained Teachers Working as English Teachers in EFL/ESL Context: A Narrative Inquiry was carried out to find out the process of the appointment of subject untrained English teachers, and their struggles who teach English at lower secondary level. Keeping the objectives in considerations, four lower secondary subject untrained teachers from community and private schools were selected as the sample by using purposive non-random (convenient) sampling strategy. Data for this study were collected by conducing open-ended interview with the selected participants/teachers. I have visited and revisited the study area to collect and validate the data. After the collection of the data they are categorized under four themes: teacher appointment process, struggle of subject untrained teacher in teaching English, pedagogical knowledge and problems they faced in the classroom. From the study it was found that there is a big problem of trained teachers in the remote area. So, due to the lack of subject trained teacher SMC is compelled to appoint subject untrained teacher as English teacher to run the school. From class observation of those teachers, it was found that grammar translation was taken as main method of language teaching. According to respondents’ opinions it was found that, they are facing some difficulties at schools such as; class size, availability of teaching materials, lack of supervision, and administrative support.
The present study consists of five main chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study along with the background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study and operational definitions of key terms. The second chapter contains the review of related theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the study for the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the chapter third includes design of the study, population, sample, sampling strategies, source of data (primary and secondary), data collection tools, data collection procedures, and ethical considerations. Likewise, chapter four deals with the analysis and interpretation of results. Finally, the fifth chapter encompasses overall findings, conclusion and recommendations related to policy level, practice level, and further research related. The study ends with references and appendixes.