Teachers’ strategies used in teaching communicative functions at secondary level

Abstract

The present study entitled “Teachers’ Strategies Used in Teaching Communicative Functions at Secondary Level” was carried out to find out the strategies used by English teachers for teaching communicative functions at secondary level along with its challenges and some pedagogical implications. The population of my study were all the secondary English teachers who are teaching community schools in Nepal. . I used survey research design in order to carry out this research. I collected the data from thirty-two classes of four secondary level English teachers of community school of Dhading District using purposive non-random (convenience) sampling strategy. The data were collected through classroom observation. The data were analyzed through statistically and descriptively tools. The findings showed that while teaching communicative functions at secondary school, teachers used role play, group work, pair work, discussion, demonstration, explanation, picture description, oral interview as the major strategies for teaching communicative functions. But, it was also found that lack of the trained teachers, lack of collaboration, teachers’ weak desire, insufficient resources, unmanaged classroom, work load are some hindrances in ELT classroom. It is recommended that teachers are required to get training, active involvement, motivation for teachers and students, parent’s education, applying communicative techniques and regular follow up activities are some effective ways of teaching communicative functions in the classroom. This thesis has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter presents background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, and significance of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter is consists of the review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study under which design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, data collection tools, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretations of data and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter consists of analysis and interpretations of data. The fifth chapter presents findings, conclusion and implications of the study and finally references and appendices are included.