Activities used in teaching english speaking skill in secondary level

Abstract

The current study entitled Activities Used in Teaching English Speaking Skill in Secondary Level is an attempt to identify the activities used by secondary level English teachers in teaching speaking skill and to explore the teacher’s views towards the activities used in teaching speaking. In order to achieve these objectives, twenty secondary level English teachers from ten community schools of Sindhupalchok district were selected using simple-random sampling procedure. Two classes of each teacher were observed. Both the observation checklist and questionnaire were used as data collection tools. The findings of the study show that teachers used interview and discussion techniques, however they made very little use of role play, picture narrating, story-telling activity, interview, story completion activity, and reporting activities. Simulation, although it is one of the effective techniques to develop speaking skill, was not found being used by any of the teachers. Similarly, the teachers argued that speaking skill can be developed by engaging them in interaction activities like picture description, storytelling, sharing experiences and drilling. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter encompasses introduction of the study. It incorporates the background of the study, 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 deals with the review of related theoretical literature, review of the related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter presents the design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, data collection procedures, and data analysis and interpretation procedures. Similarly, chapter four consists of the analysis and interpretation of the results and fifth chapter deals with the findings, conclusion and recommendations. The concluding chapter is followed by the references and appendices that were used in the thesis.