Reading comprehension ability of seventh graders

Abstract

This research work attempts to compare the reading comprehension ability of the Seventh Graders of Taplejung District in a variety of seen and unseen texts. To carry out this research work, the researcher prepared the test items including six different seen and unseen texts i.e story, letter and biography. Then a test was administrated to a number of 60 students in order to find out data for the research. The sources of data were 60 students from six public schools of Pathivara Yangwarak Rural Municipality, Taplejung District (seventh graders only). Then the test was administered to collect the data. After the administration of the test, the answer sheets of the students were collected, scored, analyzed and the reading comprehension ability was calculated and compared. It was found that students have obtained 76.75 percentage in all seen and unseen texts. Students scored better in seen texts than unseen texts. They scored better in story than letters and biography in seen texts and they have scored better in letter than story and biography in unseen texts. Girls were found having better reading comprehension ability in both seen and unseen texts than boys where girls scored 92 percentage and boys scored 82.25 percentage. This research study consists of five chapters: introduction, review of related literature, methodology, results and discussions and findings and recommendations. The first chapter introduction contains general background, statements of the problems, rational of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, significant of the study and delimitations of the study. Similarly second chapter deals with review of the related literature, implication of the reviewed literature and conceptual framework. Chapter three methods and procedures of the study consists of design of the study, sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedures, data collection tools and procedures, process of data collection and data analysis and interpretations. Forth chapter is result and discussions of the data. In this section marks obtained by the students have been analyzed to find out their reading comprehension ability. Some statistical tools such as average and percentage have been used to analyze the marks obtained by the students. Finally, the reading comprehension ability of the students of seventh graders has been compared on the basis of the marks obtained in seen and unseen texts. Finally fifth chapter consists of findings and recommendations of the study. Reference and appendices are presented at the end of this chapter.