Lower secondary level teachers perspective on the maxim of empowerment

Abstract

The thesis entitled "The Maxim of Empowerment from Lower Secondary Level English Language Teachers Perspective in Sindhuli District" was an attempt to find out the lower secondary level teachers' perception towards the maxim of empowerment. Moreover, this study was an attempt to find out the teachers' classroom behavior or culture of teaching which is the reflection of their belief system and maxim. This study was mainly conducted considering the fact that it adds a brick in the field of teacher development in ELT and helps English teachers to make their class effective. Similarly, this study was conducted to explore whether the Nepalese English teachers prefer the maxim of empowerment in their classroom or not. To meet the objectives of this research, ten teachers teaching in different schools of Sindhuli district were randomly selected as the primary source of data. They were interviewed and three classes of each teacher were observed. This research concludes that most of the English teachers have got negative attitude towards the maxim of empowerment. They believe that it is easier to teach and learn the language if there is calm environment and do not empower the students but they want to be empowered throughout the lesson. Similarly, most of the Nepalese teachers want to maintain formal relationship with their students and want to be respected from their students all the time. This thesis consists of five chapters: The first chapter is introductory in nature. It includes statement of the problem, rationale of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of related literature, implications of the review of the study and theoretical and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study, design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedures, data collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures. After that, the fourth chapter deals with results and discussions/interpretation and the last chapter deals with summary, conclusions, implications in policy level, practice level and further research followed by references and appendices.