Teachers’perception on the Use of culture in Teaching English

Abstract

This thesis entitled‘Teachers’ perception on the use of culture in teaching English’is an attempt of the researcher to find out the perception of importance of culture teaching in various and FL programmes and contexts as culture is one of the burning issues in language teaching. This thesis presents a descriptive, statistical analysis and interpretation of the teachers’ perception to wards the use of culture in teaching English. The researcher collected data from 50 secondary English teachers working in the Kathmandu Valley and half of them from government-aided schools and half from private schools.Questionnaire was used as the research tool to collect the data. Altogether 42items were included in the questionnaire, which were directly related to the defining properties of the culture teaching and environmental constraint in it.The extent to which teachers and the learners are accustomed to it, personal attachment and access to the culture teaching theory and practice and cultural information incorporated in the textbook are focused. The research found that various secondary English teachers perceive culture teaching in various manners. Among 42 items of the questionnaire, almost 94%teachers viewed that foreign language teaching is foreign culture teaching whereas 45%teachers were undecided whether culture teaching prepares learners for rehearsed situation. The thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter one includes general background, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. Chapter two is an account of methodology applied to carry out the research. Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data and their statistical presentation. The last, fourth chapter deals with the findings, recommendation and pedagogical implications of the study. There ferences and appendices are the concluding parts of the study.