Rapport Building Strategies of Teachers in ELT Classroom: A Narrative Inquiry
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This study entitled Rapport Building Strategies of Teachers in ELT Classroom: A
Narrative Inquiry aimed to explore the rapport building strategies of teachers in ELT
classroom and the importance of rapport building for teaching and learning. It also
identified the challenges to the building good rapport with the students. I used qualitative
research method adopting narrative inquiry design to carry out the study. The population
of the study included all the secondary level English language teachers from Kathmandu
district. Four English language teachers were selected as the sample for the study by
using non- random purposive sampling. Required data were elicited conducting open
ended in-depth interview. The data were analyzed by using thematic approach. From the
analysis and interpretation of the data, it was found that the teachers used different
strategies of rapport building with the students in ELT classroom such as knowing the
students, respecting them, treating equally to them, listening to them and their problems,
recognizing birthdays, sharing personal topics, conducting interactive activities, behaving
with them friendly, moving around in the classroom, using sufficient teaching materials
in the classroom and students talking time in the classroom. Moreover, rapport building
has a significant role to make the students motivated and satisfied towards learning as
well as help to have high academic performance. Besides that, findings of the study also
showed that it is difficult to establish good rapport with students in heterogeneous,
diversified and overcrowded classrooms for teaching and learning.
This thesis consists of five chapters. The first introduction chapter consists of
background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research
questions, rationale of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of
the key terms. Similarly, second chapter deals with the review of theoretical as well as
empirical literature and its implication for the study. Moreover, it also includes the
conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the methodology of the
study which covers design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling
strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis
procedures, and ethical considerations. Similarly, the fourth chapter includes the results
and discussion. Finally, the fifth chapter incorporates the conclusions and
recommendations of this research.