Browsing by Author "Yadav, Vijay Kumar"

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    Maithil Women’s Feminine Attitude in Kohbar Painting: Poetics and Politics
    (Central Department of English, 2018) Yadav, Vijay Kumar
    The genre of partition literature in the 1940s amply records the historical role of women in India’s partition as exemplified by The Heart Divided. This dissertation argues that The Heart Divided contains a reflection on women and their relation to partition history in South Asian literature from the 1940s. The novel is an example of an early reflection on women and their relation to colonial Indian history because here one encounters a veritable constellation of women from all ends of the political sphere. The novel begins with the young Mohini and her support for a united India. Then there is Zohra, the communist Rajindar, Sughra and Najma, the woman who ends up marrying Habib. All of these women think and talk about contemporary politics and participate in the political developments of the 1930s and 1940s. This dissertation argues that The Heart Divided deals with the historical agency of women in colonial India in producing India’s partition and that this agency carries educated Muslim’s imaginings of Pakistan. For these women, the partition of India is a utopian vision for Pakistan pro-partition Muslims. That Mumtaz Shah Nawaz, as a woman, shows how young women in colonial India were actively involved in conversations and political activism about the formation of Pakistan is a far cry in partition literature which mostly textualizes the Indo-Pakistani experiencing of the trauma of the partition violence..
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    Morphological Errors Committed Bymaithilispeakers
    (Faculty of Education, 2009) Yadav, Vijay Kumar
    The present thesis entitled 'Morphological Errors Committed by Maithili speakers’ aims at identifying the errors committed by the Maithili learners ofEnglish,studying in grade nine at the public schools. The tests were developedto collect data from the sampled population of eighty students of grade nine ofShree Chandra Ma. Vi. Siraha. These tests were prepared on two levels:competence level focused and performance level focused test items.Competence oriented test items were used to see how they selected suitableverb forms and the performance oriented test items were administrated to findout how theyselected suitableverb form,to express their daily life situations.Both the test items were prepared to identify the errors at the morphologicallevel. To make descriptive study of the morphological errors committed byMaithili speakers, their responses were taken as the data for furtherinterpretation on the basis of which further pedagogical implications could bederived. Item-wise analysis was done to identify the errors and to compare theirstrengths and weaknesses in relation to one another. Holistic analysis was doneto describe the quality of test items mainly in deriving the students commiterrors in selecting verb forms. In totality, sixty percentage students committederrors in attempting performance oriented test items in comparison tocompetence oriented test item. Test item A wasattempted more accurately incomparison to test item B. Twenty percentage students used S + is /am/are +going to +v to express their future plans. Forty percentage students used was /were +v-ed formsinstead of using v-ed while narrating past event theyhad eyewitnessed in person.This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one is an introductory. Oneincluding general background, objectives of the study, review of the relatedliterature and significance of the study. Chapter two includes the methodologyadopted to carryout the research. Chapter three consists of the analysis andinterpretation of data. Chapter four consists of the findings andrecommendation of the study.The appendices have been put of the end of theresearch.
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    Role of motivation for enhancing speaking skills in ELT classrooms
    (Department of English Education, 2023) Yadav, Vijay Kumar
    The study is entitled Role of Motivation for Enhancing Speaking skills in ELT classrooms. The aims of this study were to find out the role of motivation for enhancing speaking skills in ELT classroom. I adopted mixed method research design by using both primary and secondary sources of data. The required data were collected by using class observation, semi-structured interview and a set of questionnaire. The participants of five secondary level English teachers and forty students of different schools of Lalitpur district were selected through non-random sampling method. The data collected through semi-structured interview, classroom observation and questionnaire were analyzed and interpreted thematically and descriptively. It was found that the role of motivation is really significant for enhancing students’ speaking skill. Moreover, the use of motivation in ELT classrooms has promoted students for various purposes such as to acculturate in target communities, to get good job in foreign countries, to develop their personality, to develop their understanding capacity and expanding the horizon of knowledge of other subjects. Similarly, it was found that teachers used various speaking strategies like simulation, picture elicitation, language games, project work, drill methods and presentation to motivate and develop speaking skills. Additionally, most of the learners feel difficult to express themselves. Finally, it was concluded that motivation can boost up the proficiency of students’ speaking skills. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic which consists of background of the study, statements of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and the operational definition of the key terms are included. The second chapter includes both theoretical and empirical literature, along with implications of the review for the study. It also includes conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study. It includes research design of the study, population, sample, sampling strategies, data collection tools, data collection procedures, data interpretations procedures and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter includes analysis and interpretation of the data. Similarly, the fifth chapter presents findings and conclusion of the study, and recommendations. Moreover, it also suggests some pedagogical implications based on policy related, practice related and further research related. This chapter is followed by references and appendices used for the study.