English teachers' strategies and challenges in teaching writing skill at secondary level

Abstract

The present study is entitled English Teachers’ Strategies and Challenges in Writing Skill at Secondary Level. The main objectives of this study were to explore teachers’ strategies while teaching writing skill at secondary level and to find out the challenges while teaching writing at secondary level. This study followed descriptive research design under qualitative research method. For that the researcher conducted semi- structured interview and the observation of classes. Purposive non-random sampling strategy was used to select participants to collect data. Five teachers from four different secondary level community schools of Suklaphanta Municipality of Kanchanpur district were the sample of this study. The findings of this study showed that the secondary level English teachers of community schools commonly adopted brainstorming, feedback, project work, summarizing, paraphrasing, cubing, parallel writing, guided writing, free writing and providing specific writing tips through PowerPoint presentation strategies in teaching writing skill. While using those strategies the teachers faced various challenges in the classroom. They included developing creativity of the students, finding concluding statements, arousing interest on students, clarifying the confusion on topics, developing vocabulary knowledge, and proper use of punctuations and following appropriate format while writing. This research consists of five different chapters. Out of them, chapter one is the introductory part of this study. It incorporates background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Second chapter deals with review of related theoretical literature and the review of empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Third chapter is the part of the methodology. This past includes research design and method of the study, population of the sample, data collection tools, reliability and validity of the tools, data collection procedures, data analysis process, ethical consideration and sources of data. Similarly, fourth chapter deals with results and discussion and it has incorporated the analysis of the data and the results. The fifth chapter includes findings of the study, conclusion and implications of the study. In the same way, in the final part of the thesis, references and appendices have systematically been included.