Managing Large Class for Teaching Speaking: Practices and Problems

Abstract

This study entitled ‘Managing Large Class for Teaching Speaking: Practices and Problems’ intended to find out the practices and problems while teaching speaking in the large class. A case study research design was used in this study. One English teacher of community school of Kathmandu district was selected as a case for this study by using purposive non-random sampling procedure. In this study, observation checklist and diary keeping were used as a research tool to collect required data. Similarly, the collected data were analyzed descriptively and interpreted thematically. The major findings of the study showed that warm up, content revision, whole class discussion, pair work, group work, individual work, and telling stories and sharing experiences were mostly practiced activities by the teacher while teaching speaking skill in large class. Similarly, teacher faced different problems while teaching in the large classes such as student’s low participation, students’ anxiety and hesitation, large number of students in a class, lack of equal opportunity, lack of enough teaching materials, and mother tongue interference. This thesis consists of five chapters and other many sub-chapters. The first chapter deals with the general 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. The second chapter consists of review of theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter is about methodology used in this study. It deals with the design of the study, population of the study, sampling procedures and research tools and data collection procedure and ethical consideration. Likewise, the fourth chapter consists of result and discussion, and the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. In the same way, the fifth chapter presents the findings, conclusion and recommendations related to the policy level, practice level and further research of the study on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of data, followed by references and appendices.