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 department C) Conform it to your supervisor D) Reflect and explore possibilities for preparing your researchdepartmental 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

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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

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 Department of English Education T. U. Kirtipur

Chairperson

Dr. Bal Mukunda Bhandari Reader Department of English Education

. Supervisor

T. U. Kirtipur

Department of English Education T. u. Kirtipur

. Member

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( 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

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 1 2

Activities Preliminary studies Development of tools for data collection

Duration in weeks 1 1

3 4 5 6 7

Data collection Data analysis and interpretation Completion of the draft form of the thesis Editing and proofreading Completion of final form of the thesis

3 3 2 1 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.