Kamal Raj DahalMoktan, Sharmila2026-03-132026-03-132024https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/25904Thesis entitled Analysis of Writing Task in Grade Eleven English Text Book is an attempt to identify and analyze the writing tasks included in the English textbook for grade eleven and to explore how far the writing tasks are designed based on Nunan's (2004) taxonomy of task types. In the process of this study, I collected data from primary sources that is the English Textbook of Grade Eleven through observational check-list. The obtained data were tabulated and analyzed using a simple statistical tool. It was found that free writing covered 48.83 percentage controlled writing tasks covered 30.23 percentage and guided writing tasks covered 20.93 percentage in the text book. It was found that there were 43 writing tasks included in text book. It was found that 93.03 percentage writing tasks or tasks were designed according to Nunan (2004) taxonomy of task where cognitive task covered 20.40 percentage interpersonal task covere14.28 percentage co-operative task covered 8.16 percentage linguistic tasks covered 34.69 percentage affective task covered 18.36 percentage and creative task covered 8.18 percentage and remaining writing tasks were designed focusing local environment keeping the historical and cultural importance. English textbook of grade eleven focuses various writing tasks like writing short biography, writing a diary, essay, narrating events, email communique, paragraph writing, writing critical writing, news story, book/film review, writing travelogue, interpreting para-orthographic texts and so on.To meet these objectives writingtasks were graded into various types of controlled tasks like; combining, reproduction review, guided tasks like; parallel writing developing text through skeleton etc., free writing tasks like; explanatory, narrative etc.,others being cognitive tasks, interpersonal tasks, linguistic tasks, affective tasks etc. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction the study which consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, second chapter contains of review of theoretical as well as empirical literature and implications for the study. Moreover, it includes the conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter incorporates with the methods and procedures of the study, which covers design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategies, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures. In the same way, the fourth chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of the data. Furthermore, the fifth chapter incorporates the findings and conclusions of the study followed by some recommendations based on the study. Finally, the references and the appendices, which are necessary to the validation of the research have also been presented.en-USTextbookWritingThesis