Teaching Short Stories: Challenges and Issues
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2012
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Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu, Nepal
Abstract
This research work entitled “Teaching Short Stories: Challenges and
Issues” aims to explore the challenges and issues faced by English
teachers of higher secondary level (XI). I have analyzed the challenges
and the issues on the basis of responses collected from the
questionnaires and check list. For this, I purposely selected 15 higher
secondary English teachers who have the experience of teaching English
at least of one year from different schools of Kathmandu district. I
prepared checklist for class observation with some criteria and
questionnaire to find out the responses of teachers of English. From the
obtained data it was found that all the students in the class did not get
equal opportunity to learn the lesson due to the students themselves. It
was also found that teachers faced difficulty in teaching short stories
because of the long structures and difficult vocabulary used in the short
stories. It was found that to reduce the challenges in teaching short
stories trainings, workshops, refreshers courses are to be given
regarding teaching short stories.
This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with the
introduction, general background, language, literature, genres of
literature, teaching language through literature, elements of short
stories, types of short stories, characteristics of short stories, review of
the related literature, objectives of the study, and significance of the
study. Chapter two deals with the research methodology adopted for
the study in which sources of data, sampling procedures, tools for data
collection, processes of data collection and limitations of the study are
included. Likewise, chapter three deals with the analysis and
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interpretation of the challenges and the issues in teaching short stories.
In this chapter, primarily, experienced teachers responses have been
described. Chapter four presents the research findings and
recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of the data.
This chapter is followed by references and appendices.
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English literature, English language, Story teaching, Challenges