Designing ELT materials for teaching english: teachers’ perceptions and practices
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2014
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The thesis entitled "Designing ELT Materials for Teaching English: Teachers’ Perceptions and Practices" was carried out to find out teachers perceptions for designing ELT materials and strength and weaknesses of using self designing ELT materials from teachers’perspective. The researcher used both primary and secondary sources of data. The sample of the study consisted of 10 secondary level English teachers. They were selected purposively. Questionnaire and observation checklist were used as the tool for data collection. After completing the analysis of collected data,I found that Englishteachers had very good perceptions for designing English LanguageTeaching materials but due tosome problems like; financial problem, lack of skill, lack of time, lack of necessary materials to design, afraid of constructing the mpoorly, they did not design and use ELT materials in teaching learning activity. In this study, the researcher found following strengths of teacher designed ELT materials: commercially cheaper, learner friendly, teacher friendly, easy to construct, natural and realistic. Similarly, the researcher found some weaknesses of teacher designed ELT materials: less attractive, less catchy, less durable.
The research is divided into five different chapters. The first chapter,'Introduction' includes the background, statement of the problem, rationale,objectives, research questions, significance, and delimitation of the study. In the second chapter, I have tried to reflect the store house of the knowledgerelated to the present study by reviewing theoretical literature and empiricalliterature. On the basis of which conceptual framework was developed. The third chapter deals with the methodology usedto conduct the study.It gives information about the design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation procedure. Collected data have been presented, analyzed and interpreted in the fourth chapter.It deals with the teachers perceptions fordesigning ELT materials and strength and weaknesses of using teacher
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designed ELT materials from teachers perspectives. The fifth chapter summarizes and concludes the whole study in the first two sections. Besides,some of the implications of the study in policy level, practice level and references and appendices have been presented to make the study authentic, reliable and valid in this chapter.
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Teachers’ perceptions, Teaching english