Teachers’ Practices on Instructional Techniques in ELT Classroom”
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The present research study entitled“Teachers’ Practices on Instructional Techniques in ELT Classroom” aimed to explore the lower secondary level English teachers practices on different instructional techniques in ELT classroom regarding warm up activities, teachers’ physical presence in the classroom, teachers’ voice, teachers’ role, teachers’ and students’ talk,students’ seating, teaching materials and group and pair work.To meet the objectives of this research study, I selected 30 lower secondary level English teachers from 30 lower secondary schools of Baglung district using purposive non-random sampling procedure as sample for this study. Two lower secondary level English teachers from each school were selected for this study.Questionnaire and Classroom observation checklist were used to collect the data for this study. The findings of this study showed that lecture was the commonly used technique as 46.67% lower secondary level English teachers used lecture, explanation, illustration, discovery and individual instructions to teach their students. Likewise,it was found that director, monitor, manipulator,facilitator, co-communicator, friend, resource person were the most performed roles by the teachers while their students were working in pair and group and it was found that students were seating in orderly rows in all the classes.
This thesis is organized into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the background of the topic, statement of the problem, objectives of the study,research questions, significance of the study, de-limitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter includes review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter coversall the areas of methodology. Likewise, the fourth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of results and the fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations at three different areas (policy related, practice related and further research related).