Teachers' Views on the Use of Authentic Materials in Teaching English

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Teachers' Views on the Use of Authentic Materials in teaching English" is an attempt to identify and analyze the use of authentic materials by teachers of English. For this purpose,I selected forty lower secondary English teachers from twenty different private schools of Saptari district by using non-random sampling procedure. I used questionnaire as my research tool to elicit data from the respondents. They were provided with questionnaire and asked to complete it by providing relevant information. It was found that the teachers of lower secondary level from private schools were exponentially positive towards the use of authentic materials in the language classroom. They also responded that newspaper could be easily available and feasible materials for the language class. This thesis encompassesfour chapters. The first chapter presents the general background, review of related literature, objectives and significance of the study,general background, in turn, includes linguistic scenario of Nepal,language teaching and learning, authentic materials. The second chapter consists of the methodology of the study. It includes the sources of study,population of the study, sampling procedure,tools for data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, the third chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of the data.The fourth chapter incorporates the major findings and recommendations of the study. The references and appendices form the concluding part of the thesis.