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Item Impact of English at the Tourist Spots (A Case of Sauraha, Chitwan)(Faculty of English Education, 2012) Ghimire, Ash BahadurThe title of the present study is Impact of English at the Tourist Spots. This study attempts to find out the impacts of English spoken at the tourist spots of Sauraha to the educational institutions (School Students and Teachers) and people in the community. For this purpose, the researcher visited Bachhauli Secondary School at Sauraha and selected ten teachers including English subject teachers and thirty students of the same school. And he also selected twenty inhabitants of Sauraha in Chitwan district. The researcher prepared questionnaire for the interviews as the tools for data collection. First of all, the researcher visited Bachhauli Secondary School at Sauraha and took interviews with each of the thirty students of class 8, 9 and 10. And then, he took interviews with each of the ten teachers on the basis of prepared questionnaire. He also visited the community and took interviews with the inhabitants (villagers) there. After collecting data, they were analyzed and interpreted descriptively. The findings of the study proved that English spoken at the tourist spots has positive impacts to the educational institutions and people in the community in learning and teaching English. Moreover, it presents some of the useful recommendations on the basis of the findings. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with General Background, review of the Related Literature, Objectives and Significance of the Study. The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the study under which the Primary and Secondary Sources of Data, Population of the Study, and Tools for Data Collection, Process of Data Collection and Limitation of the Study are presented. The third chapter deals with the Analysis and Interpretation of Data. Mainly, descriptive approach has been used for this purpose. And the final chapter, the chapter four consists of the Findings and Recommendations. Besides, the supportive materials such as, questionnaire and their responses, etc. are presented in the Appendix section of thesis.Item Teachers' Perceptions towards Continuing Professional Development(Department of English Education, 2023) Koirala, Shanta DeviThe present study entitled, Teachers' Perception Towards Continuing Professional Development was carried to explore the EFL teachers’ perceptions towards continuous professional development and the CPD activities that the teachers were engaged in. I used survey research design to accomplish this study. The population of the study were all the EFL teachers teaching at secondary level. I collected the data from thirty secondary level EFL teachers teaching at secondary level in Kirtipur Municipality by using simple random sampling strategy. A set of questionnaire that included close and open ended questions was used as the tool for data collection. The research found that found that a good majority of the teachers agreed that CPD inspires them to be more creative and innovative in their profession. Similarly, teachers were participated in different continual professional development activities such as: talking with colleagues and developing networking with teachers from outside, watching Youtube videos and learning through web based videos, reading books/ articles available in the work place, attending workshops/ seminars/ conferences, peer observation, taking courses for higher qualification (M.Phil./Ph.D.) and conducting personal research and reviewing the journals. The most preferred activity for their CPD was talking with teachers and developing networking with teachers from outside and the least preferred activity was conducting personal research. This thesis has five chapters. The first chapter gives an overview of the thesis along with background and context of the study, objective of carrying out the research, significance of the research, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Whereas, the second chapter contains the relevant literature review, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. On the other hand, the third chapter deals with the methods and procedures followed to collect data for this study and instruments used to collect the data. While, the fourth chapter encompasses analysis and interpretation of the data. It presents the responses of the participants about the issues of the research. The fifth chapter provides the discussion on the result of the study that was analyzed in Chapter Four. It also contains recommendations for the policy level, practice level and further research level. In the end, at final section, references and appendices are included.