Shifting the Medium of Instruction in Schools

Abstract

The thesis entitled “Shifting the Medium of Instruction in Schools” is an attempt to find out the challenges and perception of administrators, teachers and students towards shifting the medium of the instruction. The data was collected by distributing the questionnaire to altogether 40 informants. Among them 4 were administrators, 16 teachers and 20 students from government aided schools in the Kathmandu valley. The data were analyzed in order to find out their challenges and perception towards shifting the medium of instruction. The major finding of the study shows that shifting the medium of instruction occurred due to the surrounding English atmosphere. Of the private schools and dominate of English language in the world. It is recommended that teachers are required to get language training and government has to provide sufficient authentic references and textbooks based on the socio-cultural situation of the country for creating the English environment in schools. This study is divided into four chapters. Chapter one introduces general background of the topic, literature review, objectives, and significance of the study. The second chapter i.e. Methodology encompasses on the sources of data, sampling procedure,tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study.The third chapter analyzes, interprets and presents the data descriptively and analytically.Chapter four presents the findings of the study on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of the data. On the basis of findings some recommendations and pedagogical implications are drawn. The references and appendix are the concluding parts of the study.