Strategies for teaching poetry in English Language classrooms at secondary level
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Department of English Education
Abstract
The study is entitled Strategies for Teaching Poetry in English Language
Classrooms at Secondary Level aimed at exploring the strategies of teaching poetry
at secondary level and to suggest some pedagogical implications for enhancing
teaching/learning poetry in the classroom. Regarding methodology, I used survey
research design and randomly selected forty English teachers from twenty community
secondary schools of Kathmandu District as a sample population. I used observation
checklists and a set of questionnaire as data collection tools. The tools were
administered to the teachers. Moreover, the data were tabulated and analyzed. The
study has revealed that discussing the general background of the poem and poet is
important strategy to give student a clear concept about poem. Furthermore, majority
participants perceived that the strategy of giving insight on the literary movements
helped students to be aware of their society. Moreover, teachers implemented the
strategy of language description to make their students understand the content easily.
They perceived that describing each line of the poem facilitates students to guess
theme of the poem. Additionally, the majority of teachers implemented the strategy of
reading poem aloud to make their students familiarize with difficult words used in the
poem.
This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the
introduction of the study that consists of background of the study, statement of the
problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study,
delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, the
second chapter consists of review of theoretical and empirical literature, implications
of the reviewed for the study and conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter
deals with the methods of the study that consists of the design and method of the
study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data
collection procedures, data analysis procedures and ethical considerations. Then, the
fourth chapter deals with the analysis and interpretations of data. Finally, fifth chapter
deals with findings, conclusions and recommendations of the study followed by
references and appendix.