English Language Education

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    English Code Mixing in Nepali Remixed Songs
    (Faculty of Education, 2014) Bhattarai, Umesh1
    This research work entitled "English code mixing in Nepali remixed songs" is an attempt to find out the English codes mixed in Nepali remixed songs. English codes were explored in terms of word class, sentence types and language functions. The songs for this research were selected by using nonrandom sampling purposive sampling procedure. For this research study, the secondary data were collected from different twenty five Nepali remixed songs. For the purpose of data collection I visited different radio stations, listened to the different radio programmes and TV shows and visited different websites. The collected data from the songs were analyzed and interpreted descriptively with the help of simple statistical tool. The major findings of the study are that all the remixed songs have mixed English codes in them. Highest number of nouns and the lowest number of adjectives were found in Nepali remixed songs. This thesis is divided into five different chapters. The first chapter deals with general background of the study, rationale of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter consists of the review of the theoretical literature, implication of the review for the study, and theoretical framework. The third chapter deals with the methodological aspect under which design of the study, sources of data, population and sample, sapling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures, and the data analysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter focuses on the results and discussions. And the fifth chapter of the study consists of summary, conclusion and implications of the study in policy making level and practice level with some directions for the further research.
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    Extending, Accepting and Declining Invitation in English and Maithili
    (Department of English Education, 2011) Yadav, Binita
    This study entitled Extending, Accepting and Declining Invitation in English and Maithili was carried out to identify and compare the exponents of Extending, Accepting and Declining Invitation used by the native Maithili and English speakers. For this research work, the researcher took sample population from Biratnagar, Jatuwa, Pichara, Majhaua areas of Morang District, which consisted of 60 native Maithili speakers. The study was based on both the primary and secondary data. The primary data was taken from the Maithili speakers and the data for English was collected from secondary sources. The primary data i.e. the responses from Maithili speakers were taken through questionnaires whereas the English exponents were taken from secondary sources i.e. the Blundell, et al. (2009), Matryek (1983), Leech and Svartvik (1975) and the book Learning English; A Communicative Approach (2005) .On the basis of analysis and interpretation the researcher came up with the conclusion that the native speakers of Maithili were found more formal than their English counterparts while extending, accepting and declining invitation in different relationships. They used polite form of language in formal situation. The study is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces the study in terms of general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter is an account of the methodology applied to carry out the research work along with the limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of data using some statistical tools to make the study objective and accurate. The fourth chapter presents the list of findings and some recommendations made on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of the data.