Teachers’ Perceptions on Practice of Group work Technique in Teaching Vocabulary
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Department of English Education
Abstract
The present study entitled “Teachers’ Perceptions on Practice of Group work
Technique in Teaching Vocabulary” aimed to explore the teachers’ perceptions
on the use of group work technique in teaching vocabulary. To achieve the
objectives, both primary and secondary sources of data were used. In order to
collect the data, thirty-six teachers teaching at lower secondary level of
Kathmandu district were selected through purposive non- random sampling
procedure, as the sample in this study. The selected teachers were provided
questionnaire. So, the participants were requested to respond on those questions.
The raw data obtained from them were analyzed and interpreted descriptively.
After the analysis and interpretation of data, it was found that teachers had very
positive views and good knowledge about the practice of group work. In addition,
it was also found that vocabulary can be taught using group work for lower
secondary level. On the basis of this finding it can be said that the group work
technique is an important technique which should be used to teach English at
lower secondary level as per the demand of classroom situation, topic, interest and
understanding level of the students.
This thesis has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter consists of the
background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research
questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational
definitions of key terms. Similarly, chapter two deals with the review of the
related theoretical literature, review of the related empirical literature, implication
of the review for the study, conceptual framework. Likewise, chapter three
presents the methodology adopted for the study under which design and method of
the study, population and sampling strategy, for the study, study area / field,
information collection tools, information collection procedure, data analysis and
interpretation procedure. Correspondingly, in chapter four analysis and
interpretation of the data and summary of the findings are included .Finally; the
fifth chapter presents the major conclusion of the study with recommendations at
policy,practice and further research related.This chapter is followed by references
and appendices used for the study.