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Item Attitudes of B.Ed. Students Towards Learning compulory English: A Case of B.Ed.1 St Year(Department of English Education, 2007) Bhandari, VidyaThe purpose of the present research was to find out students' attitudestowards learning Compulsory English in B.Ed level. The researcher selected fourcampuses from Kathmandu valley. They are namely: Mahendra Ratna Campus,Tachal, I.C.S. Education Campus,Lalit Multiple Campus and Sanothimi Campus.For this study, the researcher selected 100 students from the area. The researcher used a set of questionnaire consisting of closed endedquestions and a few open ended questions in order to collect the requiredinformation from the selected students, which was expected to meet the objectivesof the study. This study was necessary in order to make teaching learning of thiscourse more relevant and upgrade the standard of the students in the Englishlanguage in B.Ed. level. For this, the researcher was concerned to find out thepresent interest of the students' attitudes towards learning English. Keeping thesefacts in mind, the researcher carried out this research and collected data. Thecollected data from the informants were analyzed and interpreted to determinestudents' attitude towards learning English. It was found that they were highlypositive towards learning English. They also demanded compulsory English inB.Ed. second and third year. The thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study interms of general background, review of related literature, objectives of the studyand significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology applied to carry out the research work,that includes sources of data, sample population and sampling procedures, tool fordata collection, process of data collection and limitation of the study. Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data collectedfrom the four campuses. Chapter four presents the findings and recommendations.Item The Development in Using Irregular Verbs in Writing(Department of English Education, 2009) Thagunna, Pan SinghThe research entitled"The Development in Using Irregular Verbs inWriting"is an attempt to find out the performance of students of governmentaided schools in the use of English irregular verbs. In order to do so theresearcher collected data from eighth graders of Dolakha district. The samplepopulation consisted of 50 students who were purposively selected as a singlegroup for the study. Two tests of the same test-items were taken in twodifferent occasions in the forms of pre-test and post test. The pre test was takenbefore the formal teaching of the subject matter to bestudied whereas the post-test was taken just after a month of formal instruction of the same subjectmatter to find out the development in using irregular verbs in writing. Other 4weekly texts were administrated between per and post tests within a month inorder to investigate their weekly gradual development in their performanceduring class instruction. For the analysis and interpretation of the data, theanswer-sheets were checked and scored. The scores obtained by the students inboth tests were compared and tabulated and interpreted employing quantitativeand descriptive methods. The research findings in total showed that theperformance of the students in using irregular verbs in writing was foundsatisfactory. In this research work, the students weremore proficient in the posttest than in the pre-test. They developed their proficiency quite obviously inpost test rather than in per-test in the sense that their post test was greater thanpost test score after they were taught for a month. This research work\study consisted of four chapters. Chapter one deals withthe introduction. It consists of the general background of the study,introduction and importance of the English language, introduction to thegrammar, word class, introduction to the verbs, learning stages, challenges inlearning skills, use of irregular verbs in writing, techniques of teaching writingskill and grammar, review of the literature, objectives of the study, andsignificance of the study. Chapter two describes the methodologyapplied inorder to carry out this research study. It includes sources of data collection,tools of data collection, sample population, sampling procedure process of datacollection and limitation of the study. Chapter three consists of the analysis andinterpretation of the data. The data were analyzed and interpreted using thestatistical tools like percentages, average, tables and descriptive method.Chapter four deals with findings and recommendations of the study. Based onthe analysis and interpretation some significant findings are listed. Somerecommendations for pedagogical implications and further researches are madeon the basis of findings. References and appendices follow this chapter.Item Errors Committed by Grade Nine Students in the Use of Prepositions(Central Departmental of English Education, 2011) Yadav, Dharmendra KumarThe present thesis entitled “Errors committed by Grade Nine students in theuse of Prepositions” aims to identify the errors in the use of prepositionscommitted by Nine graders, studying at the Govt. school. To determine theerrors in the use of prepositions, the test items were prepared and tested to thesampled population of eighty students of grade Nine of Shree Kamala DeviH.S.S. Namadi-4, Ramechhap. Thetest items consisted of five types ofquestions. They contained multiple choice item, fill in the blanks item, usingthe prepositions in the meaningful sentences etc. To make descriptive study ofthe errors committed in the use of prepositions, their responses were taken asthe data for further interpretation on the basis of which further pedagogicalimplications could be derived. Holistic analysis was done to describe thequality of test items mainly in deriving the students’ errors in selecting theprepositions. Item wise analysis was done to identify the errors and tocompare their strengths and weaknesses in relation to one another. Afteranalysis, it was found that students committed errors mostly in the phrasalprepositions than in the simple prepositions. Thisthesisconsists of four different chapters. Chapter one deals with generalbackground of the study, English language and its signification in Nepal,importance of studying learners’ errors, error analysis and its steps, a shortdescription of English grammar and prepositions,classificationofprepositions with some examples. Similarly, review of the related literature,objectives of the study and significance of the study are included. Chapter twostates the methodologywhich was followed in the study. It deals with thesources of data, population of the study, samplingprocedure, research tools,and processof data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter threepresents the analysis and interpretation of the data collected from theinformants. Chapter four states the findings and recommendations of thestudy.The appendices have been put at the end of the research.Item LISTENING COMPREHENSION ABILITY OF PRIMARY ENGLISH TEACHERS(Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Edutation, Central Department of Education, 2011) Khanal, Narayan PrasadN/AItem Noun Phrase Structure in Rukumeli dialect, English and Standard Nepali: A Comparative Study(Faculty of English Education, 2011) Oli, Thal BirThis thesis entitled “Noun Phrase Structure on Rukumeli Dialect, English and Standard Nepali : A Comparative Study” endeavours to compare and contrast noun phrase structure of Rukumeli Dialect English and Standard Nepali languages. The researcher collected data from both primary and secondary sources. The native speakers of the Rukumeli dialect are the primary sources ofdata whereas different books, journals, magazines and thesis are the secondarysources of data. This research has been based on the informants, thirty were educated, thirty were literate and thirty were illiterate. The researcher used stratified random sampling procedure to sample the population. The interview and questionnaire schedule were used as research tools for data collection.With the help of analysis and interpretation of the data provided by the informants, findings were drawh which are as follows : There are simple noun phrase structure in Rukumeli, Nepali and English. They are simple noun phrase consisting of only head and complex noun phrase consisting of pre-modifiers preceding the head and post modifiers following the head. The thesis consists of four chapters. They are introduction, methodology,analysis and interpretation and pedagogical implications. Chapter one encompasses general background, review of related literature,objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology of the study. It encompasses sources of data, sampling procedure, research tools, sampling population, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three is very important which includes the analysis and inter pretation of data. Chapter four encompasses findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications of the study.Item Proficiency in the Use of prepositions by Grade Nine Students(Faculty of Education, 2009) Adhikari, LilaThis study is about the use of prepositions. Prepositions are a highly different and confusing grammatical item for the English as a second language learner. Many students are likely to commit mistakes in the use of prepositions. In the context of Nepal, students are likely to use preposition sincorrectly because the Nepali language has only post positions but not prepositions. The main objective of this study was to find out the proficiency of 9 the graders in the use of prepositions. Along with this objective, the comparison has been made between different text and Nepali and English medium school students. The researcher has made the comparison between different medium of instruction for teaching. The study consists of four different chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction to the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted while carrying out the study. The third chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of the data collected from various schools. The data obtained have been analyzed and interpreted with the help of statistical measures. The marks scored by individual schools, the average marks and comparison of the marks among and between the schools can also be seen in this chapter. Lastly, the forth chapter states the findings of the study. On the basis of the analysis and interpretation what the existing problems are and how they can be corrected have been suggested here.Item A Study of Errors Commited by Maithili Students in The Use of Present Tense in English(Department of English Education, 2006) Thakur, BhagbatThis dissertation tries to compare and contrast perfective andimperfective aspects in English and Maithili.English is taught as a compulsory subject in Nepal; however, the learner'slanguage is not free from grammatical errors which prove that they havenot learnt the language well. The knowledge of grammar serves as thefoundation of language, it is an important asset a teachers should have hisdisposal. Grammatical knowledge makes him confident, self-reliant andready to disentangle the learner's confusions doubt and conflict on thosematters. The use of the present tense is often confusing not only for thelearners of school level but for the teachers. The main purposes of the present study were to identify the errorsin the use of present tense and identify the proficiency aswell as to pointout the pedagogical Implications. No research as yet has been done in thisarea to see what problems or difficulties the students face learning andusing present tense. To conduct the research, the researcher took the sample students studyingin grade 10 th in different government schools of Saptary district. 50Students (25 males and 25 females) from each school were selected forthe purpose of data collection in the tool used wasonly written script inmultiple choice items, fill in the gaps, true or false statements andtranslation from English toMaithili was given to the students to collectdata, their answer were checked, recorded and analyzedfindings. The thesis consists of four chapters; Introduction, Methodology,Analysis andInterpretationandFindingsandRecommendations.The first chapter of this thesis consists of general background anddescription of tense and aspects in English andMaithili. It also includesthe objectives, review of related literature, significance of thestudy andcontrastive analysis. The second chapter deals with methodology adopted for the study underwhich the sources of data collection, process of data collection andpopulation of the study and limitations of the study are mentioned. Similarly, the third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretations ofthe data obtained from applying simple statistical method of presenaspects. The last chapter deals with some suggestions made as the basis ofindings of the study and the tables and references are included in thefinal part of this study.Item A Study on Errors in the Use of Relative Clauses Committed by the 10th Graders(Department of English Language Education, 2007) Pun, Nab RajThis thesis entitled 'A study on the Errors in the Use of Relative ClausesCommitted by the 10 th Graders' has been prepared to identify and analyze theerrors in the use of English relative clauses committed by grade 10 students ofgovernment aided schools. For the study, the researcher collected data from grade 10 students,studying in the five different government schools of Salyan district. The samplepopulation consisted of 100 students,boys and girls, both equal in number whowas selected using simple random sampling procedure. On the basis of the datacollected, errors in the use of relative clauses were analyzed and interpretedusing simple statistical tools such as average and percentage. The main findings of the study are as follows:a. In totality most of the errors were found in making independent sentences out of the sentences with relative clauses. b. In making sentences with relative clauses, most of the errors were found due to theuse of wrong relative pronouns and superfluous pronouns. c. Girls committed more errors than boys. d. Students were found to commit errors in the use of relativised possessive determiner and interrogative sentences with embedded relative clauses. e. Students failed to recognize the relative clause with deleted relative pronouns/adverbs. The study consisted of four chapters. Chapter one consists of generalback ground, fundamental of error analysis, literature review, objectives of thestudy, significance of the study and limitations of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology. It encompasses sources of data, population of the study,sampling procedure and process of data collection. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the data. Thischapterhas two main parts. Part one deals with the total proficiency in terms oftest items, gender, and school. In this part the proficiency of the students havebeen tabulated. Part two deals with the analysis of total errors in terms of errortypes, gender, schools and individual students and remediation of errors. Chapter four presents the summary of the findings and recommendations. Findings are derived form the analysis and interpretation of data carried out in chapter three and recommendations and suggestions are made on the basis of findings.Item A Study on the Proficiency in the Use of Causative Verbs(Department of English Language Education, 2008) Lamichhane, SharojThis the sishas been carried out to find out the proficiency of the10 the graders in the use of causative verbs. This study attempts to find out the Proficiency of Grade ten students in the use of causative verbs in terms of rural and urban area and sex. To carry out this research, 200 students (25 from each school)studying in four community schools of Makwanpur district were selected randomly. For collecting data, a set of test items consisting of five items was developed and administered to the students. The answer sheets were checked carefully and data were analyzed and interpreted using simple statistical tools of average and percentage. The present study was limited with in causative verbs used in grade ten English text books. It is found that the students of rural community schools are better than the students of urban community schools. The girls' proficiency is better than that of boys. The final part of this thesis includes the bibliography and appendices. The work is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces the work in terms of the general background, English language and its importance,English grammar, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology. It consists of sources of data,population of the study, sample population, sampling procedure,tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, the third chapter of this study presents the analysis and interpretation of the data. The fourth chapter Findings and Recommendation is concerned with the findings and some pedagogical implications and recommendation.Item A Study on the Use of Verbsin Free Writing by the Students of Grade 10(Department of English Education, 2007) Adhikari, GangaThis thesis attempts to determine and analyze the performance anderrors in the use of verbs in free writing by the students who are studying ingrade 10. Toaccomplish the objectives of he study, the researcher collecteddata from the 80students (20 from each school) studying in four governmentschools of Kathmandu district by using non-random, judgemental samplingprocedure. For collecting data, a test consisting of three subjective questionsfor free writing with the limitation of words and time was administered tothe students. The students were intended to write some paragraphs on thegiven topics. The free writing of the students was analyzed on the basis ofthe use of verbs. Accordingly, the findings were concluded. The major findings of he study are: tenth graders were able to use63.68% verbs correctly in free writing, the students of Tarun SecondarySchool showed the highest performance and the students of ManoharSecondary School committed the highest number of errors among theselected schools, male students showed a better performance in free writingthan female students, the highest number of errors was found in using tensesetc. This dissertation consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces thestudy with general background i.e. overview on English LanguageEducation, Writing, Free writing, Error analysis, Grammar etc. This chapteralso deals with the review of the related literature, the objectives andsignificance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology of the study. It comprisessources of data, population of the study, tools and process for data collectionand limitation of the study. Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of data usingdifferent tables, percentage, etc. Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations.Eventually, references and appendices are given. The appendix part includes research tool and other information.Item Teachers' Perception Towards A Perfect English Grammar and Composition of Grade Seven(Faculty of English Education, 2014) Aryal, KamalThis research work entitled "Teachers' perception towards A Perfect English Grammar and Composition Grade VII" is an attempt to analyze the textbook in terms of its academic aspects, and needs and interest of the learners. In the process of this study, I collected data from primary source. The primary sources of data were the responses provided by the English teachers who are teaching A Perfect English Grammar and Composition. The total samples were 40 English language teachers from 40 different selected private schools from Palpa district. It is a survey study based on quantitative analysis of the data. In order to collect the data questionnaire were prepared for the teacher. The obtained data were tabulated and analyzed using a simple statistical tool. The findings of the study are based on teachers' perception on the textbook. So, it was found that teaching English grammar is necessary to make student more creative. Similarly the textbook to a great extent exhibits authenticity of the reading materials, most of the respondents agree with and it incorporates some para-orthographic texts such as table, diagram. Therefore, it provides the learners with a reading experience. But glossary, a very important part of a language textbook, is excluded all teachers have negative response on it. As well as the exercises are sufficient for the students in developing academic skills, so most of the respondents agree with it. This study consists of five chapters.The first chapter deals with background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions,significance of the study, limitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter includes review of theoretical literature,review of empirical literature, implication of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter includes methods and procedures of the study which consist of design and methods of the study, population sample and sampling strategy,data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure, and data analysis and interpretation procedures. The fourth chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of results,analysis of data and interpretation of results and summary of findings.The last chapter consists of conclusion,recommendations, policy related, practice related and further research related.Item Teachers' Perceptions Towards and use of the Explicit Teaching of Grammar(Department of English Education, 2015) Dangi, Padam BahadurNot AvailableItem Teaching Articles in English Deductively and Inductively(Faculty of English Education, 2009) Khadka, KaluThis thesis entitled “Teaching Articles in English Deductively and Inductively”is a practical comparative study. The objectives of this study were to find out which method(deductive or inductive)is more effective for teaching articles in English and to point out some pedagogical implications of the findings of this study. The sample population of this study was all the students, i.e.fifty of grade nine studying at Shree Janta Higher Secondary School, Pokhara-1, Rukum.Two different sets of both objective and subjective test items, having the same difficulty level were prepared for both pre-test and post-test. The students were ranked from the first to the fiftieth position on the basis of the result of the pre-test. They were divided into two groups on the basis of odd-even ranking of the individual scores. Group‘A’ was taught Inductively and Group ‘B’was taught Deductively for four weeks. Then a post-test was taken and the results of two tests were tabulated and compared on the basis of that increased percentage. Inall types of comparison (item wise, general, sex wise and content wise)Group‘A”did better than Group ‘B’. Therefore, Inductive Method has been found better and more effective than Deductive one for teaching Articles in English. This thesis is divided into four chapters. Each chapter, in turn, is divided in to sub-chapters.The first chapter includes a brief introductory survey of the related area of the study. It also includes review of the related literature,objectives of the study and significance of the study.The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted during the study. This chapter consists of sources of data, the sample population and sampling procedure tools for data collection,process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of data.The data have been grouped and analyzed under the comparison in general, item wise comparison, content wise comparison and sex wise comparison.The fourth chapter presents findings viii which are derived from the analysis and interpretation of data. Finally, some recommendations are made on the basis of the findings of the study. Besides the main chapters, the supportive materials such as : test items,references, lesson plans, name of students and their marks in pre-testand post-test etc. used during the research are presented in the appendices of the thesis.