May 3, 2027 Thesis Open Access

Usha Godana Musa

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  <dc:creator>Usha Godana Musa</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2027-05-03</dc:date>
  <dc:description>The main purpose of the study was to explore the Practices and Challenges of Teaching English Language Through Group Work In English as a Foreign Language at Guangua, Shara and Biyo Secondary Schools in Abaya woreda particularly grade 9 in focus. To achieve the objectives of the study, descriptive study was employed. Data were gathered from 120 students, which was 20% of the total population in four randomly selected classrooms. Additionally, the researcher took all of the teachers as participants of the studybyusing comprehensive sampling technique since they were manageable and a few in numbers. The researcher used four types of data collection instruments: Classroom observation, questionnaire, interview and FGD. The data obtained through classroom observation, open ended questions,teachers’ interview and students’ FGD were analyzed qualitatively; whereas, the data collected through closed ended questionnaire were analyzed quantitatively using descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage). After analyzing and interpreting the collected data qualitatively and quantitatively, the findings of the study related to teachers and students were specified clearly. Even though the results of the study showed both students and teachers perceived group work positively, the following were seen as the main challenges of teaching English language through group work activities: poor educational background, low language proficiency,insufficient time given for group work, absence of stable group leader and secretary in each group.Therefore, studentsintended to use their L1 or became careless to take part in activities and did not play their expected roles in group activities.Similarly, teachers did not; determine or limit the number of students in a group, use group work activities regularly, allow students to report, comment and criticize the tasks, give sufficient time for group work activities, provide feedback and graded group work activities to create competition among groups. Thus, to alleviate the existing problems, possible recommendations were stated by researcher. The teachers should: form permanent groups that stay for long period and allow appropriate tasks with learners’ level through students centered method, grade group work activities to make all students participate in the groups, appropriate time should be given for the tasks and the tasks should enhance students to suggest their own ideas, criticize, comment, or report the works done at the end of the activities.Furthermore, there must be group leader and secretary in each group to improve their academic competence and performance in English language.
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  <dc:identifier>https://zenodo.org/record/10759</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>10.20372/nadre:10759</dc:identifier>
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  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>doi:10.20372/nadre:10758</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>url:https://nadre.ethernet.edu.et/communities/mwu123-un</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by</dc:rights>
  <dc:title>A Thesis Submitted to the Department of English Language and Literature in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).</dc:title>
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