Techniques of Teaching Reading Skill in English at Basic Level
Date
2021
Authors
Adhikari, Upendra
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Faculty of English Education
Abstract
This thesis entitled "Techniques of teaching reading in English at basic level (a study
in basic level schools of Itahari sub-metropolitan city,Sunsari)” was carried out to
find out techniques and materials used by the English language teachers in teaching
reading at basic level. The researcher had selected 15 schools situated in Itahari sub-
metropolitan city of Sunsari district using purposive nonrandom sampling procedure.
In the same way,15 ELT selected teachers from those selected schools were selected
using the same sampling procedure were observed by using checklist to collect data
and a set of questionnaires were also used. The data collected from these tools were
analyzed and interpreted using descriptive as well as statistical tools. The overall
findings of the study showed that,majority of the teachers have received trainings and
all of the teachers feel interesting and exciting in teaching reading skill. All of the
teachers make students participation in pre-teaching activities,make students read in
their own way,motivate the students before teaching reading.All of the teachers
faced low vocabulary power of the students and lack of sufficient teaching materials
in their schools as the main problems in teaching reading and asked related questions
of the reading exercise to evaluate the students. Explanation is the mostly used
technique in teaching and prediction, strip story techniques are not founded to be used
in teaching reading. All 15 teachers mentioned description of the hard words and
explanation as the mostly used technique of teaching reading in English. Rest of the
other teachers mentioned revision of previous reading, pair work, group work,
demonstration, discussion and other technique as mostly used techniques. It was
found that all of the teachers mostly used textbook and pictures/pamphlets in teaching
reading.
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This thesis has been divided into five different chapters. The first chapter includes the
background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives, research questions,
significance of the study, delimitations of the study. Similarly, second chapter deals
with the review of related theoretical literature, empirical literature, implication of the
review for the study and conceptual framework. Third chapter deals with the
methodology employed to conduct the study. It gives information about the design of
the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data
collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Collected data
were presented, analyzed and interpreted applying statistical tools like frequency and
percentage in the fourth chapter. It also includes analysis of data and interpretation of
the results and summary of the findings. Accordingly, the fifth chapter includes
conclusions and recommendations. Some recommendations for policy related,
practice related and further research related are presented in this section. This chapter
is followed by references and appendices.
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Keywords
Teaching reading, English language