Saraswati DawadiDawadi, Gobinda2026-01-282026-01-282008https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/25555The research entitled Students’ Ability to Establish Cohesion in Reading is an attempt to find out the ability of the 12th grade students to establish cohesion in reading. In order to do so, the researcher collected data from students of three different colleges of Kathmandu district by using judgmental non-random sampling procedure. The sample population consisted of 120 students of the 12th grade who were selected by using simple random sampling procedure. Three different tests were developed into cohesive ties test and cloze test and were provided to the students in order to assess their ability to establish cohesion in reading. The data were analyzed and interpreted aiming to find out the extent to which they showed their ability to establish cohesion in reading comprehension and to compare their ability based on different variables. On the basis of the collected data, the students’ ability to establish cohesive devices was determined by using simple statistical tools such as mean and percentage. The research findings show that students are more proficient to establish cohesion in reading on cohesive ties format than on the fixed ratio format. They are more proficient to supply exact key words to the key than to supply acceptable words. Overall, their ability to establish cohesion in reading seems to be very poor. The study consists of four chapters, which are given below. Chapter one deals with the introduction. It consists of the general background of the study, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definitions of the specific terms. Chapter two introduces the methodology adopted for the study. It encompasses sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and the limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the data which has been done in terms of cohesive ties format, cloze test, stream-wise comparison and college-wise comparison. The statistical tools such as mean, percentage along with different tables and figures were used while analyzing and interpreting the data. Chapter four incorporates findings and recommendations. Based on the analysis and interpretation, some significant findings are listed. On the basis of these findings, some recommendations for further researches are made. This chapter is followed by references and appendices.en-USEnglish languageEstablish cohesionThesis