Teachers' Attitude Towards Vocabulary Teaching

Abstract

The present study is done to find out their attitudes towards teaching vocabulary.Having constructed the questionnaires (Attitude Inventory), they were administered to 81 secondary leave English teachers of public schools of Surkhet District. After collecting data through the questionnaires, analysis and interpretation was done grouping the questionnaires into general attitude and SLA theoretical-based strategies, viz. cognitive-based strategies, input-based strategiesand output-based strategies. On the whole, the concerned people were found to have positive attitude towards teaching vocabulary. This study is divided into four main chapters and other sub-topics. The first chapter deals with the general introduction to the importance of English language,definition of vocabulary and different theoretical based strategres and techniques in teaching vocabulary. After that literature review, objectives and methodology were explained. The third chapter presents analysis and interpretation of the tabulated data and the fourth chapter consists of findings and recommendations on the basis of the chapter three. Apart from the main chapters, the supportive materials, viz. references, questionnaires and comments of the respondents were presented.