Practices of Reflective Teaching Used by Primary Level English Teachers

Abstract

This researcher work entitled "Practices of Reflective Teaching Used by Primary Level English Teachers’’ aimed to find out the practices of reflective teaching used by primary level English teachers. The study was mainly conducted considering the significance of reflective practice for making improvement in EFL classroom. To achieve the objectives, the researcher designed one main tool i.e. questionnaire. She analyzed and interpreted the practices of reflective teaching based on their responses regarding to what extent they use different tools of reflective practices given in the questionnaire. To analyze each tool of reflective practice, the researcher used simple statistical devices like table and percentage This study shows that majority of the primary level English language teachers were not found practicing reflective teaching for their professional development though some of them responded that they use reflective teaching as a way to their professional development.

This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one is an introductory chapter. It includes the general background, objectives of the study, the review of the related literature, significance of the study and the definitions of the specific terms. Chapter two includes the methodology adopted to carry out the research. In other words, it includes the sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools and process of data collection and limitations of the study.Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of data. Chapter four consists of the findings and recommendations of the study. Lastly, this chapter is followed by references and appendices.