Developing Speaking Skills Through Task Based Language Teaching
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Department of English Educaion
Abstract
The research entitled Developing Speaking Skills Through Task Language
Teaching was aimed to analyze the roles of Task Based Language Teaching in teaching
English as a foreign language at the secondary level. For this purpose, Mangal Higher
Secondary School, Kirtipur - 10 was selected for the study. This research is primarily a
student-centered approach, and 40 students from grade IX were taken as sample
population placed randomly into a controlled and experimental group. The students in
the experimental group performed writing task using task-based language teaching
techniques, while those in the controlled group practiced writing skills using traditional
writing exercise. Test items and questionnaires were the main tools for data collection.
A pre-test was administered using the same test items of the pre-test. Then, performance
scores of the students were compared and analyzed. Similarly, teachers should be able to
create such situation where students hold meaningful tasks that we promoted their
speaking proficiency. The finding of the research indicated that the use of task-based
language teaching can develop students' speaking skill. The pretest score shows the
value of learning completeness was only 14.2%. The post-test score revealed that the
students' speaking skills developed with satisfactory results as 16.5%. The students
managed to complete different task and to evaluate their learning in pair and group
work. This learning experience enable the students develop their speaking skills
significantly in the future.
This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter includes background of
the research, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions,
rationale of the study, operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, the second
chapter is related to the review of the related literature and conceptual framework.
Likewise, third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study under which
research design of the study, population sample, sampling procedure, data collection
tools, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedure, ethical
considerations are mentioned. In the same way, the fourth chapter consists of results and
discussion of the study. Finally, the fifth chapter includes the summary, findings,
conclusion and implications. Implication of the study at policy related, practice related
and further research related are suggested. The references and appendices are mentioned
at the end.