कार्यमूलक अनुसन्धान :नमुना सात

Action Research : Model Seven

Prepared By: Hiranya Lal Lamsal

Topic: Classroom Teaching in English Medium

1. Background of  the Study

 

Teaching English as a medium of instruction is popular in recent days in schools and colleges in Nepal. Subjects except language subject(s) are taught in English with regard to making students capable of understanding and communicating in English in many schools. These days, people’s attraction towards learning English has increased a lot. To create such environment English medium schools especially the institutional schools have played significant role. Compared to the community school graduates, institutional school graduates have higher capacity of grasping knowledge in English. It is thought that the products of institutional schools in Nepal have no difficulty in understanding, responding and interacting with their colleagues in English and so all the subjects except language subjects are taught in English.

Teacher believes that students especially in school feel comfortable in learning in their mother tongue. In this context, UNESCO (2011) focuses on children learning better and in an easy way in their mother tongue. Language is one of the most contested issues in education especially in a multilingual country like Nepal where children from different indigenous, tribal and minority groups represent. But the concern here is to discuss about English as a medium of instruction in school level of education. It is believed that all subjects excluding language subjects must be taught in English in school level. All subjects except language subject(s) are taught in English in the schools of Nepal. Syllabus and curriculum are designed and developed in English. So, class notes are also provided in English.

However, at the initial stage of teaching it was felt that this technique was not        that effective as a majority of students were not interacting in the class. They did not respond to the questions that were asked in the mass. Even though, particular students were pointed out for response only few of them responded. Most of the students were yawning and paying no attention in the class. The expectation that the teaching would be efficient and effective was just the reverse. Students were away from their eagerness to learn. Realizing such a situation, a decision was taken to do an action research in order to make students motivated in the classroom.

2. Significance of the Study

Generally, most of the students in Government –based school don’t like to speak in English. What I have seen in the class that during English period students hesitate to talk in English language. While giving the answer orally, they mix up Nepali language. Students are often inhibited about trying to say things in an English language. They are worried about making mistakes fearful of criticism or losing face or simply shy of the attention that their speech attracts. In the classroom, students share a common mother tongue. They often tend to use it for a communication purpose. They feel unnatural to speak to one another in an English language .Students simply think that using the mother tongue is a safer and easier way for them.

 

The action research was conducted with the students of grade eight at shree Kerwani Secondary School. The total number of research participants (students) was 35, out of which eighteen were boys. They belonged to different ethnic groups. As an English teacher I carried out this research  in order to find out the ways to create English speaking environment in the classroom.The problem may lie with the teaching process or with the students or with the teaching material itself. The degree of difficulty often differs according to the situation and the background of the letters.

 

3. Objectives of the study

The present research focuses on classroom teaching in English medium.                 The main objectives of this research are as follow:

1. i) To identify the classroom situation, existing problems in teaching and learning
2. ii) To find out possible solutions of classroom teaching in English medium.

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