English Teachers’ Techniques of Teaching Stories for Students: A Study of Secondary Level Schools of Nepal

Abstract

This research work was conducted to find out techniques used by English language teachers in teaching short stories to the secondary school level students in Nepal. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher chosen a case study design. The data were analyzed on the basis of activities recorded during the class observation. In this regard, the researcher used judgmental non-random sampling procedure to select two English language teachers from two secondary schools in Banke district, Nepalgunj, Nepal. Further, 30 classes (15 classes of each teacher) were observed. Diary writing and observation checklists were used to collect data. After analyzing the data, it was found that teachers used student-centered teaching techniques i.e. interaction technique, discussion technique, problem solving technique and question answer technique to teach short stories.