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WRITING A PROPOSAL (for practical purpose)

A) Identify an area of interest such as Language teaching and learning,

Language Testing, Error Analysis, Translation, Teacher Development

and so on

B) Read the list of proposal and thesis of your departmentC) Conform it to your supervisor

D) Reflect and explore possibilities for preparing your research-

departmental researches, current professional issues, etc

E) Collect anything that looks useful for your broad area

F) Review the available literature (here literature refers to anything i.e.

previous researches, journals, books, newspapers etc.)

G) Frame the title

H) Evaluate the research title from different perspectives i.e. availability of

sufficient data, time, energy, patience etc.

I) Prepare a draft that includes your vision for whole research activity

J) Talk to your supervisor, discuss and finalize title

K) Familiar with the format i.e.

Use TIME NEW ROMAN FRONT

For the running text 13 point

For the immediate heading 14 point

Use up to 16 point

For sub-heading- 14, main- heading -15 and for outer page heading -16

Margins: right(1 inch), top(1 inch), bottom(1 inch) and left (1.5 inch)

Use all capital letters for title, chapter numbers and chapter headings

The first letter of the content world and grammar words having 5 or

more in heading or subheading should be capital

Follow the APA system for reference citation

Indent the quotation if the quotation is more than 40

Use up to 4 digits in categorizing sub heading for example 1.1.1.1

L) Start to write a proposal

M) Page no 1

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A Research Proposal

On

PERCEPTION OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TOWARDS NEWLY

INTRODUCED COURSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER

DEVELOPMENT

Submitted to

The Department of English Education

In Partial Fulfillment for the Master of Education in English

Faculty of Education

Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur

Kathmandu, Nepal

2011

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Submitted by

Name

T. U. Regd. No.:

Second Year Exam Roll No.:

Date of Submission:

Pge no 2

APPROVAL FOR THE RESEARCH

This proposal has been approved by the following Research Guidance

Committee:

Signature

Dr. Chandreshwar Mishra

Professor and Head Chairperson

Department of English Education

T. U. Kirtipur

Dr. Bal Mukunda Bhandari .

Reader Supervisor

Department of English Education

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T. U. Kirtipur

.

Department of English Education Member

T. u. Kirtipur

Page no 3 ( main body of the proposal)

1. Introduction

1.1 General Background

1.1.1 Language Teaching

1.1.2 Teaching as a Profession

1.1.3 Teachers Professional Development

1.1.3.1 Concept

1.1.3.2 Characteristics of teacher Development

1.1.4 Need for Teachers Professional Development

1.1.5 Issues in ELT Teacher Education in Nepal

1.1.6 Course: English Language Teacher Development

1.1.7 Perception: A Brief Introduction

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1.2 Review of the Related Literature

1.3 Objectives of the Study

1.4 Significance of the Study

2. Methodology

2.1 Research Design

2.2 Sources of Data

2.2.1 Primary Sources of Data

2.2.2 Secondary Sources of Data

2.3 Population of the Study

2.4 Sampling Procedure

2.5 Tools for Data Collection

2.6 Process of Data Collection

2.7Deliimitation of the Study

3. Presentation, analysis and interpretation of the Data

4. Findings and implications

5. Work Plan

S.N Activities Duration in weeks

1 Preliminary studies 1

2 Development of tools for data collection 1

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3 Data collection 3

4 Data analysis and interpretation 3

5 Completion of the draft form of the thesis 2

6 Editing and proofreading 1

7 Completion of final form of the thesis 2

References

Appendices

# submit your proposal to department

# attend vice- voce of proposal

Note- This format is only appropriate for department of English

education of TU.

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