Strategies for teaching poetry in English Language classrooms at secondary level

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.