Teachers' Beliefs on Strategies Used in Teaching English
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Department of English Education
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The present research study entitled ''Teachers' Beliefs on Strategies used in teaching English in various aspects such as pronunciation, grammar, communication, poetry and essay. To meet the objectives of this research, the researcher selected Thirty teachers using purposive non- random sampling procedure from governmental aided schools of Siraha district who were teaching English in basic level. The data were collected with the help of the questionnaire and analyzed in order to find out the teachers' beliefs on strategies of teaching English. It was found that the teachers used different strategies such as modeling method, working with sounds to teach pronunciation. Deductive and inductive approach were used to teach grammar. Interaction, role play, discussion, group work were used to teach communicative approach. Similarly, Pre-reading activities, while-reading activities and post-reading activities were used to teach essays and poetry.
There are five chapters in this study. The first chapter deals with general background, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, chapter two includes the review of the related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study, population, sample and sampling strategies, study area, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure are mentioned. Likewise, chapter four includes analysis and interpretation of results and summary of findings. Chapter five includes conclusion and recommendations at three different areas, i.e, policy related, practice related and further research related. Finally, the references and appendices are included.