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Item Effectiveness of Reading Short Stories in Developing Students' Writing Skills(Department of English Education, 2018) Oli, Chandra BahadurThis study entitled ‘Effectiveness of Reading Short Stories in Developing Students’ Writing Skills' aimed at finding out the effectiveness of reading short stories in developing students’ writing skill at secondary level (IX and X). I used non-random purposive sampling procedure to select the students (24) of grade IX and X studying in Vaishnabi Secondary School, Kirtipur, Kathmandu. As I followed an experimental research design, I used pre-tests and post-tests as the tools of data collection. The collected data have been presented in tables and analyzed and discussed quantitatively using mean and percentage. The major findings showed that engaging the students in reading short stories is significant in developing students’ writing skill. The experimental group increased 37% achievement in the post-test of writing skill after they were engaged in reading short stories before their writing lessons for two weeks. Engaging the students in reading short stories during the class was proved to be an effective way of developing students’ writing skills. The thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter. It includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with theoretical and conceptual framework of the study. The third chapter deals with methodology which incorporates research design and method, population, sample and sampling strategies, field/site of the study, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter deals with the rigorous analysis of data and interpretation of results along with the summary of the findings. The fifth chapter presents the conclusion and recommendations of this research.Item Students' Performance on English Guided Writing(Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Oli, Chandra BahadurThe present research work entitled Students' Performance on English Guided Writing is an attempt to find out the students' performance on English guided writing in terms of content, grammar (subject verb agreement and tense), format, spelling, vocabulary and arrangement. The researcher selected 30 students from the two schools of Kathmandu district through purposive nonrandom sampling procedure. The test items were used as the main tool for data collection. The four test items were story writing, writing news, writing biography and condolence writing. There were 30 students as a sample from the two selected schools consisting of 15 from each school. The test items were of 80 full marks. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted with the help of tables, statistical tools, percentage and average. Holistic analysis, school-wise analysis and item-wise analysis are done separately. Holistic analysis shows that the performance of 30 students of the two selected schools on the four test items was satisfactory. Likewise, school-wise analysis shows that Shanti Nikunja Secondary School obtained high rank. The result was found better than Balsewa Secondary School which obtained low rank. Similarly, item-wise analysis reflects that the students obtained highest marks in condolence writing. The students obtained the lowest marks in writing news report. Similarly, students were found erroneous in selecting vocabulary, writing content, using tense and arranging sentences. It was found better in using format, spelling and subject, verb agreement. This thesis has been divided into five different chapters. The first chapter deals with background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter consists of the review of the theoretical literature, review of the empirical literature, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. 10 The third chapter deals with the methodological aspect under which design and method of the study , population, sample and sampling procedure, study area, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter focuses on the analysis of the data and interpretation of results. Similarly, the fifth chapter of the study consists of and recommendation of the whole study. References and appendices are included at the end of the study.