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Item Cultural Ambivalence in ZadieSmith'sOn Beauty(Faculty of Art in English, 2018) Poudel, Guru PrasadThe research critically examines the relationship between two racially different characters Belsey and Kiki. Besley is a white person from Britain who marries African- American Kiki. The clash between liberal and conservative academic values and it leads the cultural ambivalence due to the mixed race. The marital relationship between the two different races results in the disharmony and hence became the victim of separate culture multi adjustment and troubles with children from mixed race. Kiki and Carlene remain the best friend despite the failed relationship of their family. In the line of Homi K. Bhabha, this thesis argues that Zadie Smith presents the culturally ambivalent character. Characters show the complex genealogy of each family and foretell the impact of cultural and familiar history will have on their London born children. There is a conflict between the white and black. In the novel, the story covers the difficulties of cultural difference and their children as they are comforted by the different society. Kiki is in ambivalent and inbetween state. She is in hybridity: she always tries to fit herself in the white surrounding that further leads her to frustration, ambivalence, alienated, and dislocated. It brings the loss of identity.Item A Study on personality as a Variable in english Langauge Classroom(Department of English Education, 2010) Poudel, Guru PrasadThe current research is “A Study on Personality as a Variable in EnglishLanguage Classroom”. As the importance of the English language classroomcan hardly be exaggerated, this work attempts to find out personality traits ofthe students and personality as a variable in English language classroom fromthe teacher’s view point. For these purposes, a sample of 60 students and 4teachers was selected from two higher secondary schools. Analyzing the datacollected through personality traits survey questionnaire and the interviewsheet; it has been found that most of the learners had extrovert personality andthey enjoyed learning English through the active interaction andenjoyed to askquestions in class. Furthermore, almost all the teachers opined that they caredabout different learning styles of their students and personality is a significantrelated variable in students’ achievement. This study is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter encompassesintroduction of the study. It incorporated general background, first and secondlanguage, English as a second language classroom, individual differences,personality, approaches of studying personality, theoriesof studyingpersonality, personality assessment, extroversion/introversion, review of therelated literature, objectives of the study and significance of the studysequentially. The second chapter deals with the methodology used for the studydescribed interms of the sources of data collection, tools used for collectingdata, procedures of data collection, limitations of the study and procedures ofdata analysis. The third chapter is the presentation of the analysis andinterpretation of the data. The datawere analyzed and interpreted by usingsimple statistical tool of percentage and average. Moreover, the analysis of thelearner responses and the teachers’ views has been done under differentsignificant and inclusive themes. The fourth chapter includes the findings andrecommendations of the study. Furthermore, this chapter includes some of thesuggestions to extrovert learners, introvert learners and language teachers too.Finally, but foremost it presents some guidelines for further researchers whowantto carryout study on this very topic. The concluding chapter is followedby the references and appendices that are used in the thesis.