Prakash Mani Ghimire

  An Action Research Report on Use of Group Discussion and Presentation in the Same Group for an Active participation in Speaking Activities   Researcher Prakash Mani Ghimire Secondary Level English Teacher Sarbajanik Secondary School Chhatradev-5, Chhatragunj, Arghakhanchi   Unit-1 Introduction Speaking skill is one of the productive skills and it is one of the important skills which help the learners to master target language. When students take an active participation in speaking activities they can develop the base for communicative competence. Speakers of English need to have various communication strategies and they can be developed only from taking active participation in various speaking activities. In some of the cases it will be very easy to make students speak in the classroom, but in some cases students do not take part in speaking activities. If the students' proficiency level is high, the content of speaking is easy, interesting and use...

Topic: Strategies to ensure students' active participation during online classes: A case in Zoom   1.      Introduction 'Online classes' has now become a popular word among the students, parents and teachers. Because of COVID-19 pandemic, most of the schools do not have face to face classes. There is 'lock down' in most of the countries and areas for a long time. The government and Education Offices have encouraged/ordered the schools to start online classes: either synchronous or asynchronous. In spite of the fact that we cannot have fact-to-face learning environment in the situation of pandemics students' learning must be continued. As teachers, we must have to start learning, use and deliver the content to the students using any of the suitable or appropriate modes of teaching learning. From the word itself, an online class is a course conducted using the internet. In online classes the students and the teachers interact through a learning management sy...