Techniques Used by Trained and Untrained Teachers in Teaching Short Stories
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Department of English Education
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The present research work entitled “Techniques Used by Trained and Untrained
Teachers in Teaching Short Stories” was carried out to find out the techniques used
by teachers in teaching short stories at intermediate level. I used both primary and
secondary sources of data in this study. I randomly selected nine higher secondary
schools and colleges. Thirty six students and twelve teachers from the colleges were
selected using random judgmental sampling procedure. For the collection of primary
data twelve teachers and thirty six students were distributed questionnaire and thirty
six classes were observed. The secondary sources of data were various books, journals
and websites related to the study. The study found out that learners liked short stories
knowingly or unknowingly and short stories are baseline for all language skills,
language functions, etc. And to get the hidden benefit these should be taught by using
various techniques. If it is not taught properly, it will be the work of making sand
house that last for only seconds.
This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study with general
background i.e. history of English language teaching, teaching literature, elements of
stories, etc. Chapter two deals with the procedure adapted to carry out the research. It
contains information on the sources of data, sampling procedure, tools and process of
data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of analysis and
interpretation of the data collected through questionnaire and observation. Chapter
four deals with the major findings of the study on the basis of analysis and
interpretation of the data obtained and it also deals with some recommendations made
on the basis of findings of the study. Finally, chapter four is followed by references
and the appendices.