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Item Prospects of Developing Village Tourism in Palpa District: A Case Study of Madanpokhara VDC(Department of Rural Development, 2015) Bhattarai, Lalita KumariThe thesis entitled “Prospects of Developing Village Tourism in Palpa District: A Case Study of Madanpokhara VDC” was prepared to highlight the potentatlity of village tourism in Madanpokhara VDC, the first model village of Nepal, which lies in Palpa district of Lumbini Zone. Multi culture nature and impact of tourism are seen on every facets of human life. Now, Tourism has become one of the interesting and new businesses in which natural beauties, human creations and constructions play a vital role. Only natural beauties are not enough to attract tourist but also facilities, security, accessibility are also most important factors. Madanpokhara is a prosperous village near Tansen, of panoramic hill town of Nepal. This beautiful valley has cultural and religious values. There are several attractive human creation and construction to attract the flow of tourist. Hence, the present research work was prepared with the objective of identifying the prospects of developing village tourism in Madanpokhara, to identify facilities available for village tourism, assess the tourism product available in the study area to attract tourist. It is mainly based on primary data, collected using questionnaire to the key informants direct observation with the general objective to analyze the prospects of developing village tourism. For this study, by applying random sampling method ,10 local people, 18 Nepalese tourists, 2 Hotel Owners and 10 Government service holders were selected for the key informants interview. The collected data were tabulated and analyzed by applying stastical tools. Based on the study, it is found that Madanpokhara VDC has high potentialities of village tourism especially in eco-tourism, cultural tourism and religious tourism. Most of people depend on traditional agriculture system for their livelihoods. But only the organic feeding of local products for visitors is very good. There is no availability of accurate official data and records of the tourist visit in tourist information centre. So it is necessary to keep the records in systematic manner so that the future tourism plan will be succeeded effectively. The present basic infrastructure such as accommodation, communication, drinking water supply, health services, electricity and transportation need to be upgraded as per the pace of time and demand of the tourist.Item Strategies adopted by secondary level teachers in teaching pronunciation(Department of English Education, 2023) Bhattarai, Lalita KumariTeaching pronunciation teaching is the basic and very essential aspect of language teaching which directly related with successful communication. In this concern, the study entitled Strategies by Secondary Level Teachers in Teaching Pronunciation was an attempt to investigate into the perception of teachers in teaching pronunciation and to explore the strategies used by them. Survey research design was followed to complete this study. The researcher employed questionnaire having close ended and open ended and observation checklist for data collection. For this, thirty five secondary English language teachers of Dadeldhura district were selected purposively by using non-random sampling procedures. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted statistically and descriptively with their theme. The findings indicated that most of the teachers preferred to use drilling and they found it the easiest technique to conduct inside the classroom while teaching pronunciation. Similarly, it was also found that teachers also used minimal pairs, visual representation phonemes symbol, pronunciation and spelling activities and listening and reading activates. The teachers considered that strategy made teaching pronunciation effective and created attitude to have native like awareness regarding pronunciation. However, they did not accept to follow native like pronunciation to facilitate their students and emphasized that the way of pronunciation could be nativized. This study conations five chapters. The first chapter deals with the background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter comprises review of the related theoretical and empirical studies, implication of the studies and conceptual framework. Likewise, third chapter consists design of the study and method of the study, population, sampling strategies, research tools, and sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical consideration. The fourth chapter includes analysis and interpretation of the data. Moreover¸ the fifth chapter deals with findings, conclusion and recommendation based on the analysis and interpretation of the study. At the last part of the study references and appendices are attached.