TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES ON TEACHING ESSAY WRITING IN SECONDARY LEVEL IN NEPAL

Abstract

This research paper entitled, ‘Teachers’ Strategies for Teaching Essay Writing in the Secondary Level’ attempts to reveal some teachers’ strategies for teaching essay writing expressed by current secondary level school teachers. It endeavors to uncover significant teaching essay writing principles by exploring the teachers’ reflections from their experiences of classroom practices. Hence, its main objective is to find out principal and practical strategies from the teachers’ experiences for teaching essay writing. It will be helpful to teachers like me who are interested in updating skills of teaching essay writing as per the need and interest of learners. The paper especially focuses on different teachers’ teaching strategies for essay writing to the secondary school age learners to enable them to write a short essay that they need to face in the SLC examination. The paper has basically looked for how a teacher can scaffold learners to provide the basic concept of paragraph development in essay writing through teaching process. Since I have adapted interpretive paradigm under qualitative research design, my findings are product of qualitative data that I have collected through observation and interview. The study found that different teachers ii use different techniques or strategies for the purpose of achieving the goal of essay writing. But a majority of the teachers use series of pictures in association with the topic in order to motivate students and provide basic information for learners as well. Interestingly, all respondents experienced group work as essential part of practice in teaching essay writing. As the paper has dug out some practical strategies for teaching essay writing process, it is not only significant for English language teachers but may be equally important for teacher-researchers, trainers, and policy makers including other concerning ELT bodies and authorities as well