Learning Strategies of Expert and Novice English Language Teachers for Professional Development

Abstract

This thesis entitled ‘Learning Strategies of Expert and Novice English Language Teacher for Professional Development’ is intended to discover the learning strategies used by expert and novice English language teacher for their professional development. For this data was collected from all 10 schools of Pathari Resource Center in Morang district through questionnaire and interview. On the basis of the collected data, the strategies employed by the teachers were determined using simple statistical tools such as percentage and mean weightage. Among fourteen experimented learning strategies of English language teachers which can be used for the professional development and helped the teacher to be expert in teaching field. Among these strategies three strategies: mentoring, team teaching and peer coaching were most preferred and eleven strategies: conferences, seminars, analysis of critical incidents, workshop, action research, case analysis, teaching portfolios peer observation, teacher support group, self monitoring, keeping ELT journal were least preferred by novice teachers and nine strategies were most preferred and five strategies were least preferred by expert teacher, for their professional development.

The purposed study has been divided into four chapters. Chapter one encompasses general background, review of related literature objective of the study, significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology. It incorporates sources of data, population of the study, sample population, tools for data collection, limitation of the study and. Chapter three includes analysis and interpretation of data. The data are analyzed and interpreted on the basis of the mean weightage and percentage. Chapter four consists of findings, conclusion and recommendations. Some findings have been presented on the basis of the analysis and interpretation done in the previous chapter with the help of findings conclusion is drawn and recommendations are made. The appendices and references are given in the final part of the thesis.