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Item 6Achievement and Effecting Factors in Learning Mathematics of Musahar Students(Department of Mathematics Education, 2021) Kohar, JitendraThis study entitled “Achievement and Effecting Factors in Learning Mathematics of Musahar Students” intended to find out the achievement and leading factors that effects in learning mathematics Musahar students. The main objectives of this study were to identify the achievement in mathematics of Musahar children and to identify the leading factors that effects on their mathematical achievement. Where, the study is based only on the basic level of government school and on Musahar ethnic group of Nepal. In this study, to fulfill above objective the researcher conducted achievement test with interview schedule and observation form to collect the required information. The researcher used the explanatory sequential mixed research design. Quantitative data were analyzed by the statistical tools and qualitative data were analyzed by thematic network approach of analysis. For this, researcher selected three sample schools from Rupandehi district by purposive sampling. Sixty students were selected for achievement test. Similarly mathematics teachers, head teachers, parents and students were included in interview. The researcher analyzed the collected data with the help of conceptual understanding on the basis of factors related to learning environment at home and school, pre-knowledge, interest and labor in mathematics of the students and maternal education and support. The finding of the study shows that, there is very low achievement in mathematics of Musahar students in comparison of National Assessment of Students Achievement (NASA) 2011 and 2015. From the study, it is found that there a lots of factor behind low achievement of Musahar students such as factors related to school management, factors related to students, factors related to teacher, factors related to parents and factors related to environments. Specially, in learning mathematics Musahar students have lake of fundamental concepts of mathematics, problem to transform the word problems into algebraic expression, very low knowledge in process solving skill and application of concepts, formulas in the new context. The main reasons for the above problems are the irregularity and wrong concept in schooling. From the observation of schooling records of Musahar community and from interview, it is found that the low achievement of Musahar students is their genetic factor.Item Ability of grade nine students in English speaking(Department of English Education, 2016) Lama, Hasta BahadurThe present study entitled "A Study on the Speaking Ability of Grade Nine Students exmined the speaking ability of grade Nine students of Ramechhap district in terms of pronunciation, accuracy, fluency and vocabulary. This study was carried out based on the primary sources of data. The sample of population of the study consisted of forty students of grade nine from four schools of Ramechhap district. This study was carried out by using a survey research design. The required data were collected by administering test items such as interview and picture descriptions. After the analysis and interoperation of collected data, it was found that students' performance was not satisfactory, mostly used mother tongue. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter presents the introduction of the study in terms of background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of study and operational definition of the key terms. The second Chapter consists of review of related literature and conceptual framework. Under this chapter, there are different sub headings: review of the related theoretical literature, language teaching and learning, English language teaching, speaking, teaching speaking skills, testing speaking, speaking ability , components of speaking skill, review of related empirical literature implications of the review for study and conceptual framework . Third chapter presents the methods and procedure of the study, under this chapter design and method of the study, population sample and sampling procedure study area / field, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation procedure. Chapter four presents the finding and interpretation of colleted data in different tables of different schools. Analysis and interpretation of the results, findings / results, the criteria of gradation, analysis and interpretation of results, analysis of collected data through test items, overall ability of the grade nine students, analysis and interpretations of the data in terms of schools, individual analysis of speaking ability of school 'A', individual analysis of speaking ability of school 'B', individual analysis of speaking ability of school 'C', individual analysis of speaking ability of School 'D' and analysis of aspect of ability . Chapter five presents the summary, conclusion and recommendations of the study in different levels, policy related, practice related and further research related. Finally, I included the references and appendices which are necessary for the validation of the research.Item Ability to Use of Cohesion in Writing Story(Department of English, 2013) Mandal, Birendra KumarThe present thesis is a study on"Ability to Use of Cohesion in Writing Story".The main objective of the study was to find out and analyze the use of cohesion and coherence in writing stories by students of higher secondary level of governmental aided school.I collected data from the students studying in higher secondary school in Dhanusha district. The sample population consisted of 45 students and they were selected by using simple random sampling procedure. After collecting the data, the students' achievement was analyzed on the basis of ranks and percentage they secured. It was found that the students studying in Dhanusha district were good in achieving cohesion and coherence in writing short story. It is, however, recommended that students should be encouraged to write guided and free stories writing as well. This research study consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with general background, review of related literature,objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two includes the methodology. It consists of sources of data, population of the study, tools for the data collection, process of data collection and the limitations of the study. Chapter three includes analysis,interpretation and explanation of data. Finally, chapter four consists of the findings and suggestions of the study. The findings and relevant suggestions have been presented on the basis of analysis and interpretation of the data. This chapter is followed by references and appendices.Item Academic And Physical Aspects in The New Headway English(Faculty of education, 2008) Wasti, SushilaThe researcher in her thesis entitled"ACADEMIC AND PHYSICALASPECTS IN THENEW HEADWAY ENGLISH"tried to analyze the NewHeadway English in terms of academic and physical aspects. In the process of this study the researcher collected data from bothsources: Primary and Secondary. The primary sources of data were the responsesmade by the English Teacher. The findings of the study are based on teachers' perceptions andresearcher's own view on the textbook. The main findings of this study are asfollows:i) The textbook contains communicative activities.ii) The textbook presents four language skills in systematic way (i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing)iii) The contents include in the textbook are interesting because they introduce foreign culture.iv) The textbook lacks pronunciation aspect of language.v) The size of the textbook is odd and not durable binding. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with generalbackground of thestudy, definition of textbook, importance of textbook, types oftextbook, review of related literatures, objectives, significance and limitations of the study. The second chapter is related to the methodology applied to carryout the research. It deals with the source of data, population of the study, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the datacollected from different sources. The text book is analyze on the basis ofacademic and physical aspects. This chapter is divided into four parts. The firstpart of this chapter deals withtheanalysis of the textbook. The second part dealswiththeanalysis and interpretation of academic aspect of the textbook.The third part deals with analysis and interpretation of the physical aspects of the text book and the fourth part deals with the overall comments and suggestions expressed by the teachers on the textbook.Item Accessibility and Practice of ITC in Teaching and Learning Mathematics(Department of Mathematics Education, 2020) Dhungel, PradipThe topic of the study is "Accessibility and practices of ICT (Information Communication and Technology) in teaching and learning mathematics." The purpose of this study was to investigate the accessibility of ICT tools and their practices in teaching and learning mathematics. The study adopted descriptive survey design and the information/data was collected by observation checklist, interview and questionnaire. The sample of the study was 200 students and 24 teachers from twenty secondary schools. The researcher used random sampling procedure to select the sample for finding the accessibility of ICT tools. For the convenience of the researcher Hanumanteshwor Secondary School of Baiteshwor-4 Dolakha was selected for investigating the practices of ICT in teaching and learning mathematics purposively. The data collected by using checklist, were analyzed descriptively according to the percentage score of the data. The responses of the interviewee were analyzed by using qualitative approach. It was found that most of the schools in Dolakha district had access of ICT tools but only fewer teachers used them due to the lack of pedagogical knowledge. Also some old teacher still believes on traditional way of teaching so they are not modified according to the today's technologies. It was found that the training organize by different institutions are only focus on providing technical knowledge related to ICT but not included pedagogical knowledge related to ICT in mathematics hence the teachers are unable integrate the ICT in teaching and learning mathematics. It was also noticed that maximum students are from the poor background so many of them have no availability of ICT tools at their home.Item Achievement In Mathematics And Its Causes(Department Of Mathematics Education, 2018) Karna, SumitThis study focuses on the Achievement in mathematics and its cause.The main objectives of this study were to compare the achievement level of Badi andnon- Badi students in mathematics and to explore the causes that affect achievements in mathematics of Badi students. Main hypothesis was that there is no significant difference between mean achievement of Badi and Non Badi students. This study was a mixed research design approach conducted at Shree Sharda Secondary School, Shree Pravat Secondary School, Shree Chhinchu English Medium School and Deuti Vidya Mandir Sadan, Bheriganga municipality, Surkhet. I selected hundred students fromfourschools of both Badi and non-Badi castefor achievement test. I took interview four Badi students, two Badi parents,four mathematics teachers and four head teachers.I conducted observation of five mathematics classes.I analyzed and interpreted the data with the help of z-test,theories and some related literatures. From the study,it was found that there was significant difference between mean achievement of Badi and Non-Badi students.So,achievement in mathematics of Badi students were lower than non Badi students. It was found that the interests of learners, pre knowledge and teaching learning activities, motivation,physical facilities, school environment, home environment,parents education and culture and society were main causes of low achievements in mathematics.Item Achievement in Writing by Nepali and Tharu Native Speakers(Department of English Education, 2010) Chhetri, ManojThe present study aims to assess the achievement in writing by Nepali andTharu native speakers. The main focus of the study was directed towardwhether the achievement of writing differs because of difference inthe nativelanguages of the students; if it differs then to what extent? The study wascarriedout using bothprimary and secondary sources of data. For primary data,the ninth grade students of a government aided secondary school were taughtwriting. Altogether 26 students (13 Nepaliand 13 Tharu native speakers) wereselected as sample and taught writing on the basis of the original texts of theEnglish text book of grade nine. The representative examples from the threetypes of writing namely controlled, guided and free writing were chosen forteaching. The sampling procedure was purposive because ofthe availability ofthe Tharu students. During the data analysis the Nepali native speakersdominated the Tharu students in terms of scores all along. But the trend andrate of progress in writingseemed similar in both of the groups. In conclusion,different native languages of the learners do not necessarily show thesignificant gap between theirachievements.The first chapter consistsof background,definition of language, first language,second language, foreign languageand filter language.The theory of languageacquisition, monolingualism and bilingualism are also introduced in the firstchapter.The first chapter also includesthe writing skills, mechanics and othercomponents ofwriting,correctingscoring written works.The origin of actionresearch, its definition and process have been put in this chapter. The finalpartsof this chapter arereview of the related literature, objectives and significance ofthe study.The second chapter deals with the methodology applied in the study,the sources of data, sample population, sampling procedure, tools andprocedures for data collection. The chapter also states the limitations of thestudy.The third chapter presentsanalysis and interpretation. The fourth chapterconsists of the findings and recommendations based on the analysis andinterpretation of data. References and appendices are attached at the end.Item Achievement of Coherence in Writing(Department of English Education, 2009) Regmi, Chet NathThe title of the research is ‘A Study on Achievement of Coherence in Writing’. The main purpose of this research was to find out the use of coherence in writing by bachelor level students. In order to do so, the researcher collected the data from two colleges in Chitwan district. The sample population consisted of 80 students and they were selected by using simple random sampling procedure. After collecting the data, the students’ achievement was analyzed on the basis of marks and percentages they secured. It was found that the students studying in Chitwan district were good in achieving coherence in paragraph writing with the average percentage of 67.7. This thesis consists of four chapters: chapter one deals with general background, review of related literature, objective of the study, significance of the study and the definition of thes pecificterms. Chapter two deals with methodology. It consists of source of data, population of the study, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Both primary as well as secondary sources were consulted for data collection. Eighty students from two different colleges of Chitwan district were randomly selected as the sample. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the obtained data. Chapter four consists of the findings and recommendations of the study. The findings and relevant recommendations have been presented on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of the data. This chapter is followed by references and appendices.Item Achievement of Modal Verbs by the Students of Grade Ten(Department of English Education, 2009) Bhandari, ShovaThis thesis entitled ‘"Achievement of Modal Verbs by the Students of Grade Ten” is an attempt to find out the achievement of modal verbs included in the course of grade ten students and to compare the achievement between the students of private and government aided schools of Chitwan district. For this purpose I used both primary and secondary sources of data. The students of grade ten studying in Chitwan district were the primary sources and the English textbook of grade nine was the main source of the secondary data. The modal verbs were taken from this book to design test items. Then the researcher administered the test on 80 students selected from four different schools of Chitwan district. The researcher analyzed the correct responses as well as compared their achievement on the basis of the percentage of correct responses. It was found that the modal verb achievement of the tenth graders studying in Chitwan was good. Students of private schools obtained the higher percentage in comparison to the students of government aided schools. The study is divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the general background, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter consists of the methodology in which the sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study are mentioned. Similarly, the third chapter comprises analysis and interpretation of the data. Finally, the fourth chapter contains the findings and recommendations of the study.Item Action Research for English Language Teachers’ Professional Development: Experiences and Expectations(Department of English Education, 2023) Regmi, SunitaAvailable with full textItem Action research for teacher professional development(Department of English Education, 2022) Poudel, SirjanaThis research study entitled Action research for Teacher Professional Development was carried out to explore the belief of English language teachers of community schools on action research for teacher professional development. I adopted the narrative inquiry as a research design. To conduct this research, three secondary level English teachers were selected as the sample by using purposive non-random sampling strategy. Data for this study were collected by conducting semi-structured interview with the selected participants. The collected data were analysed thematically. I found the role of action research as an effective tool to solve the teaching and learning problems in the classroom which is also called as a classroom-based research. It is also one of the best strategies for the teachers' professional development. Most of the teachers did not get proper support from their colleagues, principal and also from the administration section although action research has positive impacts on student’s achievement and helps for their professional development. The major effectiveness of action research is that it is practical in nature which brings innovation in teaching. Despite these strengths, lack of appropriate teaching materials, time consumption, large number of students in a single classroom, little knowledge of action research and the irregularity of the students are the major problems faced by the teachers at the period of conducting and implementing the action research. The present study consists of five chapters. Chapter one consists of an introductory part. It includes the background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, chapter two deals with the review of the related theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and the conceptual framework. Chapter three includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedure and ethical consideration. Likewise, chapter four presents the analysis of the data and the interpretation of the results. Finally, chapter five presents the encompasses the overall findings, conclusion and the recommendations related to policy level, practice level and further research.Item Action Verbs in Maithili and English(Department of Education English, 2011) Yadav, Pramila KumariThis is a research study entitled ‘Action Verbs in Maithili and English’. This thesis attempts to compare and contrast the action verbs in Maithili and English. The tools used in this study were a set of questionnaire and the data were collected from primary and secondary sources. The native speakers of Maithili language in Laukahi, Narsingh, Bhokraha VDCs and Inaruwa Municipality of Sunsari district were the primary sources of data and different books, journals, papers, magazines and theses were used as the secondary sources of data. The sample population was 80 native speakers of Maithili language who would speak and write English as well. The researcher used the judgmental sampling procedure to sample the population. The questionnaire consisted of 80 action verbs in English. The set was given to the sample population to write the equivalent Maithili action verbs for them. After collecting the responses, the verbs were tabulated and compared. Again, the detailed analysis of the native speakers’ response was made and, accordingly findings and conclusions were presented. The analysis and interpretation of the data has been done descriptively. Differences and some other relevant facts have been presented in tables the major findings of this research are that both (English and Maithili) action verbs have the same definition and classifications but Maithili action verbs have only– ab or – al affixes at last whereas, English action verbs have different. This thesis includes four chapters. Chapter one discusses the introduction part i.e. general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology of the study. It encompasses sources of data, sampling procedure, research tools, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three includes the analysis and interpretation of the data. Chapter four consists of findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications of the study. The major findings of the research study are listed and finally some pedagogical implications are pointed out.Item Activities in Teaching Short Stories(Department of English Education, 2010) K.C., Janga BirThe study is about the" Activities in teaching short stories". The objectives of the study is to find out the activities used in teaching short stories at lower secondary level and to suggest some pedagogical implications for enhancing teaching learning process of the story at lower secondary level. For this study 40 students and 20 lower secondary level English teachers, from both public and private schools were purposively selected. In order to collect relevant data, two sets of questionnaires were distributed to the teachers and students and ten classes of the teachers were observed by using class observation form. After analyzing the data collected through question naire and class observation, it has been found that most of the teachers always explained the title of the story before teaching it. Furthermore, 40% students replied that their teachers never used pictures and postures to describe the story. This study is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter encompasses the introduction of the story. It incorporated general backgrounds, literature,genres of literature's, literature and language teaching, value of literature in language classroom, approaches to teaching literature, activities used in teaching short stories, short stories types of short stories , review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology used for the study described in terms of the sources of data collection, tools used for collecting data, procedure of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with the presentation of the analysis and interpretation of the data. The data were analyzed and interpreted by using simple statistical tool of percentage.Based on the analysis and interpretation of chapter third, the fourth chapter regards with the findings and recommendations of the study. The concluding chapter is followed by the references and appendices that are used in the thesis.Item Activities of Female Teachers for Their Professional Development(Department of English Education, 2015) Shrestha, SitaThis research work entitled Activities of Female Teachers for their Professional Development has been carried out to find out the attitudes of female teachers towards their profession, the activities that the female teachers do for their professional development and the challenges and obstacles for female teachers in teaching profession. The study was carried out considering the female teachers and their invaluable contribution towards their profession.The primary data was collected from the twenty female teachers six schools from Bara, Simara selected by using the non-random purposive sampling procedure. The data obtained from the respondents through the questionnaire have been analyzed and interpreted using simple statistical tools. The study shows that all the female teachers have the same views regarding the challenges and obstacles in their teaching. The major challenges included, lack of time for the preparation due to various responsibilities at home and school both, lack of appropriate teaching materials, the concept of the society that males are more superior than the females, which has direct effect on their profession.Furthermore, they view that, it is very necessary to bring different programmes like, special training packages, developing documentary films related to female teachers, to raise the condition of female teachers up and cope with those challenges.This thesis comprises five chapters. The first chapter deals with general introduction, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the review of the related literatures, implication of review for the study and conceptual framework. Third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study. It contains information about design and methodsused in the study, population of study, on sampling procedure, tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures.Fourth chapter consists of the analysis and interpretation of the results. And the fifth chapter deals with the major findings of the study on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. It also deals with some recommendations made, based on the major findings of the study.Finally, the fifth chapter is followed by the references and appendices.Item Activities of Teaching Rhymes in Montessori Schools(Department of English Education, 2011) Upadhayay, RajuThe research entitled "Activities of Teaching Rhymes in Montessori Schools” is an attempt to find out the activities adopted by the teachers in teaching rhymes in Montessori Schools. It also aims to find teachers' views towards rhymes teaching in Montessori class. In order to achieve these objectives, two research tools viz. class observation form and questionnaire to the teachers were prepared. Two Montessori schools each from Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur were selected purposively. It has been found that the activities of teaching rhymes varied from teacher to teacher. No fixed activities were found in teaching rhymes in Montessori Schools. The present study consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, objectives of the study, significance of the study and review of related literature. Chapter two deals with the methodology of the study. Methodology consists of sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data. The analysis was done in two sections. Section A deals with Holistic view: details of teaching learning activities used in real classroom and section B deals with the analysis of collected data in terms of teachers' views towards rhymes teaching in Montessori school and the chapter four deals with the findings and recommendations of the study.Item Activities Used by female Teachers in Eltclassroom Management(Faculty of Education, 2017) Thapa, RajeshworiThe present study entitled “Activities usedbyFemale Teachers in ELTClassroomManagement”aimed to find out classroom management activitiesused by secondary level female English teachers of Kathmandu district.Theprimarysourceswere fiveteacherswithfour classes of each.The populationwas selected by usingpurposivenon random sampling procedure.Interviewquestionnaires and class observation checklists were used as thetools of thestudy. It wasfound thatteachers used techniques like use of teaching materials,motivation,warm upactivities, providing feedback, use of rhetoric language,frequent walking in the classroom, self checking and peer checking,use oflesson plan, group divisions, managing physical facilities etc. This thesisconsists of fivechapters. Chapteronedealwith the introductionwhich includesbackgroundof the study, statement of the problems, objectivesof the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of thestudy, operational definition of the key terms. Chapter twoincludethereview ofrelated literature, review ofempirical literature, implication of the review forthe study, conceptual framework.Chapter three containmethods and procedureof the studythat includesdesign of the study,population, sample and samplingstrategy,research tool, sources of data,data collectionprocedure,dataanalysisprocedure and ethical consideration. In chapter four, analysisandinterpretationhas beenpresentedindifferent tables.Thechapter fiveincludemajorfindings, conclusionand recommendations followed byreferences and appendices.Item Activities Used by Teachers While Teaching Reading(Faculty of education, 2009) Gautam, Hari PrasadThis study entitled ‘Activities Used by the Teachers While Teaching Reading skills’ attempts to find out the activities used by the teachers while teaching reading in proficiency certificate level in Kathmnadu District. Fifty students were selected by using random sampling procedure and five teachers from five different PCL campuses were selected by judgmental sampling procedure for the study. Similarly, observation checklists and survey opinionnaires were used as the research tools. The researcher found that guessing the topic and providing the reasons for reading are good pre-reading activities. Fill in the blanks, T/F statements and comprehension question are good while reading activities and summarizing the text is good post-reading activity. Similarly, he also identified that presenting unfamiliar vocabularies and writing sign-post questions are tolerable pre-reading activities, scanning, skimming and jigsaw reading are tolerable while reading activities and role- play, discussion and debate are tolerable post-reading activities. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction which consists of general background, literature review, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology used in the study: the sources of data, (both primary and secondary), sample populations and sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of the data to find out the activities used by the teachers while teaching reading skills at PCL level. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted by using frequency distribution table, bar-diagrams and pie-charts. The fourth chapter presents the findings derived from the analysis and the interpretation of the data. It also suggests some recommendations on the basis of the findings. The final section of the study includes the references and appendices.Item Activities Used for Promoting Learner Autonomy(Department of English Education, 2015) Khanal, YamnathThe present study entitled Activities used for Promoting Learner Autonomy aims to explore the strategies, used by the students for promoting autonomy in their language learning and teacher’s activities to promote learner autonomy in language learning. To meet the objectives of this research, I chose a case study method and I decided to observe a class of grade12 for a month at Reliance International Academy,Chabahil, Kathmandu in natural setting. I observed the teaching and learning strategies and activities for one month as a non participatory observer. Questionnaire and class observation were main research tools of this study. There were 30 studentsand one teacher as sample in this study. The students and a teacher were primary sources of this study. This study has critically analyzed the observation diary and questionnaire filled up by the students for promoting autonomy in their language learning. It was found that there were various ways of promoters via; self practice, pair work, group work,discussion, interaction in different skills via listening, speaking, reading, writing,grammar and vocabulary to be autonomous in language learning. All students did not select the same techniques, strategies, and activities to learn language for promoting their autonomy in their language learning and they agreed that the teacher’s role i.e.guidance, facilitation, participation and activities; explanation, description and role play are also essential to promote learner autonomy in language learning. This thesis is organized into five chapters. The first chapter is introductory in nature which deals with background of the study, statement of the problem, rational of the study, objective of the study research questions, significance of the study,delimitations of the study and Operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter incorporates review of the literature and conceptual framework of the study.This chapter has mainly three sub- topics i.e. review of the related literature,implication of the review for the study and theoretical and conceptual framework. The third chapter presents the methodology of this study. Similarly, the forth chapter deals with the result and discussion of this study and the fifth chapter includes the summary, conclusion, and implication of the study.Item Activities used in teaching english speaking skill in secondary level(Department of English Education, 2023) Dhital, Prem KumarThe current study entitled Activities Used in Teaching English Speaking Skill in Secondary Level is an attempt to identify the activities used by secondary level English teachers in teaching speaking skill and to explore the teacher’s views towards the activities used in teaching speaking. In order to achieve these objectives, twenty secondary level English teachers from ten community schools of Sindhupalchok district were selected using simple-random sampling procedure. Two classes of each teacher were observed. Both the observation checklist and questionnaire were used as data collection tools. The findings of the study show that teachers used interview and discussion techniques, however they made very little use of role play, picture narrating, story-telling activity, interview, story completion activity, and reporting activities. Simulation, although it is one of the effective techniques to develop speaking skill, was not found being used by any of the teachers. Similarly, the teachers argued that speaking skill can be developed by engaging them in interaction activities like picture description, storytelling, sharing experiences and drilling. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter encompasses introduction of the study. It incorporates the background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. Similarly, chapter two deals with the review of related theoretical literature, review of the related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter presents the design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, data collection procedures, and data analysis and interpretation procedures. Similarly, chapter four consists of the analysis and interpretation of the results and fifth chapter deals with the findings, conclusion and recommendations. The concluding chapter is followed by the references and appendices that were used in the thesis.Item Activities Used in Teaching Novel(Central Department of English Education, 2011) Shahi, Dhana BahadurThis research work entitled'Activities Used in Teaching Novel'attempted tofind out the activities used by the teachers of grade twelve while teachingnovel. It also tried to discover the uniformity between the teachers' and thestudents' responses regarding theactivities used in teaching novel. The majortools of data collection were teachers' and students' questionnaires and classobservation form. The primary data was collected from 25 English teachers and50 major English students of grade twelve from Bardiadistrict who wereselected purposively. All the teachers were provided questionnaires and 5teachers were selected purposively for class observation. Four classes of eachteacher were observed. Ten students were selected purposively from eachschool and given questionnaire at the end of the 4 th day's class observation. Thecollected data has been analyzed and interpreted using simple statistical tools.It was found that the teachers used different activities, viz. giving backgroundinformation, discussingtitle, providing signpost questions, describingcharacters, giving summary, providing critical analysis, asking students to writecritical analysis and so on. It was also found that there was a minimaluniformity but a maximal difference between their responses regarding theactivities used in teaching novel. This study consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with generalbackground, review of related literature, objectives and significance of thestudy. Chapter two deals with the procedure applied tocarry out the research. Itincludes sources of data, sample population and sampling procedure, tools fordata collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapterthree comprises analysis and interpretation of the data. Chapter four deals withthe major findings of the study and some recommendations.