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Item An Analysis of Textbook:Academic Vocabulary in Use(Faculty of Education, 2010) Yadav, Naresh RayThe purpose of the present study was to pinpoint whether the vocabularies giveninthe textbook are sufficient to meet the objectives set in the curriculum and toanalyze the textbook in term ofword use, word meaning, word formationanddifficulty level. The researcher selectedfiveB.Ed. campuses in the Janakpur zonepurposively. Heselected 60 students for B.Ed. second year major English, inwhich 12 students were selected from each campus. The researcher used two setsof questionnaire. A test was taken from the students and a set of closed endedquestionnairefor teachers. The researcher visited selected campuses, establishedrapport and got the students collected with the help of the English teachers. Headministered thetestto the selected students anda questionnaire to theteachersand then he collected them. The data collectedfrom the respondents wereanalyzed andinterpreted and found that the textbook is good intermsofwordformation,word meaning andword use. The study is divided into four chapters. Thefirst chapterconsists of thebackground of the study, importance oftextbook analysis, vocabulary, review ofthe related literature, objectives,process of the data collection,andlimitationsofthe study. Thesecond chapterdeals with methodology adopted in carrying outthe research. It contains the sources of the data,sampling procedure, tools for datacollection,process of data collection and limitation of the study. Thechapterthreeconsists of analysis,interpretation and tabulation of the data. The data wascollected through questionnaireand a testand analyzed.Thechapter fourincorporates the major findings of the study on the basis of analysis andinterpretation of the data. It also deals with some recommendations made on thebasis of findings of study.Item A Comparative Study on The Kinship terms in Tharu and The English Language(Department of English Education, 2007) Chaudhary, Satya NarayanIn this study, the researcher has analysed and interpreted differentkinship relations, their corresponding kinship terms and the forms to addressthose relations. The main objectives of the study were tofind out Tharu andEnglish kinship terms, compare and contrast them and suggest somepedagogical implications. To accomplish the purpose, the researchercollected data from60nativespeakers ofTharu inSunsari district for Tharukinship termsand from10native speakers ofEnglish fromtheUSA, the UK,Canada, Australia, and New Zealandfor English.Stratified random samplinghad been used in case of data collection for Tharu kinship terms.He hasalsoutilized his own conscience as a native speaker of Tharu.The samplingprocedure usedforcollecting data for English is purposive one. Thework is divided intofour chapters.The first chapter introducesthework in terms ofthe general background,Tharu language,English Language,general description of kinship, review of the related literature, objectives ofthe study, significance of the study, definition of technical terms andabbreviations. Chapter two familiarizes withmethodology. It consists of sources ofdata, population of thestudy, samplepopulation,sampling procedure, toolsfordata collection, process of datacollection, and limitations of the study. Chapter threepresents the analysis and interpretation of the data. Whileanalyzing the data an attempt has been made to compare and contrast thekinship terms in Tharu and English. `Chapter four discusses the findings of the study.The main finding isthat there are90 kinship terms in Tharu whereas only 34 kinship terms arethere in English. This shows that Tharu is richer than English regarding thetotal number of kinship terms. There are a few kinship terms andcorresponding addressive forms in the stock of English kinship vocabulary.Most of therelations are addressed by name in English whereas most of therelations in Tharu are addressed by kinship terms adding suffixes.On thebasis of the findings, some pedagogical implications and recommendationsare suggested.Item Input Modifications in Teaching Pronunciation at Basic Level(Faculty of English Education, 2020) Rajbanshi, NabinaThe research entitled Input Modification in Teaching Pronunciation at Basic Level has been conducted with the main objective to identify the features of modified input used by the lower secondary English teachers. To proceed the study, 5 community schools and 5 institutional schools that lie in Arjundhara Municipality, Jhapa were selected on random sampling basis. Then 5 grade eight English teachers from institutional schools and 5 grade eight English teachers from community schools were selected as the sample for the study on purposeful sampling basis. The data were collected through the class observations and analyzed and interpreted qualitatively as well as statistically. After the analysis and interpretation, it was found that most of the cases the teachers made their speech slower while teaching. The teachers were separating the word/syllable and made more and longer pauses between sentences. In majority of the cases the teachers put stress heavily on the stressed words and increased their volume on key (main) words. The teachers used simple vocabulary and also restricted their vocabulary. They replaced the difficult items with more frequently occurring items, repeated the words, analytically paraphrased the words, gave contextual information and explained while defining the words. This thesis consists five chapters. The first chapter of the study deals with the general background, statement of problem, objectives of the study, significance of the study and delimitations of the study. The second chapter deals with review of theoretical and empirical literature, implication of the study and theoretical framework. The third chapter deals with the methodology used in the study. Design of the Study, Population and Sample, Sampling Procedure, Tools for Data Collection, Process of Data Collection, Ethical Consideration are described in this chapter. The fourth chapter is the results and discussion. The collected data have been analyzed and interpreted under different headings and sub-headings. The last chapter, i.e. chapter five includes the summary, conclusion and implications. On the basis of the analyzed data, the summary and conclusion have been extracted and in turn, on the basis of the summary, some implications for the policy, practice and further research levels have been made. The main portion is followed by references and the appendices which include research tools and other information.Item Strategies adopted by Limbu students in learning English vocabulary(Department of English Education, 2023) Subba, NunitaThis study entitled Strategies Adopted by Limbu Students in Learning English Vocabulary: A Phenomenological Research Design aimed to explore the learning strategies adopted by Limbu Students in learning English Vocabulary. Keeping the objectives into consideration, six basic level students studying in community schools from Limbu community were selected as the sample by using non-random sampling procedure. Data for this study were collected by conducting in-depth interview through normal conversation with the selected participants. After the collection of data, they were categorized into seven themes and were analyzed by using thematic analysis. I categorized all the findings into seven themes: Vocabulary learning through discussion, motivation, reward and Love, memorization, through pictures, guessing and translation. Despite these strengths, lack of appropriate teaching materials, time consumption, irregularity of the students were the major challenges found in this study. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first introduction chapter consists of the study, statement of the problem, Objectives of the study, research questions, rationale of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, second chapter deals with the review of theoretical as well as empirical literature and its implication for the study. Moreover, it also includes the conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the methodology of the study which covers design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures and ethical considerations. Similarly, the fourth chapter includes the results and discussion. Finally, the fifth chapter incorporates the conclusions and recommendations of this research.Item Strategies Adopted by Limbu Students in Learning English Vocabulary(Department of English Education, 2023) Subba, NunitaThis study entitled Strategies Adopted by Limbu Students in Learning English Vocabulary: A Phenomenological Research Design aimed to explore the learning strategies adopted by Limbu Students in learning English Vocabulary.Keeping the objectives into consideration, six basic level students studying in community schools from Limbu community were selected as the sample by using non-random sampling procedure. Data for this study were collected by conducting in-depth interview through normal conversation with the selected participants. After the collection of data,they were categorized into seven themes and were analyzed by using thematic analysis. I categorized all the findings into seven themes: Vocabulary learning through discussion, motivation, reward and Love,memorization, through pictures,guessing and translation. Despite these strengths, lack of appropriate teaching materials, time consumption, irregularity of the students were the major challenges found in this study. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first introduction chapter consists of the study, statement of the problem, Objectives of the study, research questions,rationale of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, second chapter deals with the review of theoretical as well as empirical literature and its implication for the study. Moreover, it also includes the conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the methodology of the study which covers design and method of the study, population,sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures and ethical considerations. Similarly, the fourth chapter includes the results and discussion. Finally, the fifth chapter incorporates the conclusions and recommendations of this research.Item Strategies Adopted by Secondary Students in Vocabulary Learning(Department of English, 2012) Yadav, Pradip KumarThis thesis entitled"Strategies Adopted by Secondary Students in Vocabulary Learning"is an attempt to identify the strategies adopted by secondary level students in learning English vocabulary. The researcher collected data from the students of five secondary schools of Dolkha district. The total sample population of the study consisted of 100 students selected using sample random sample procedure. Theresearcherselected twenty students,ten students of grade nine and ten students of grade ten from each school). The questionnaire was the major tool for the data collection. The researcher spent two days in each school for collecting the data. The researcher found that the most frequently used vocabulary learning vocabulary were consulting dictionary, taking note in class and using bilingual dictionary. This study consists of four chapters. Chapter one consists of the general background,review of related literature, objective of the study, definition specific terms and significance of the study. Chapter two consist of the methods of study. It compares the source of data population of study, sample procedure tool for data collection and limitation of the study. Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of the data. This data were analyzed and tabulated on the basis of the students, responses andalso classified in terms of different taxonomy. Chapter four consists of the finding and recommendation of the study. The references and appendices are the conducting parts of the study.Item Strategies used by eight graders in learning English vocabulary(Department of English Education, 2009) Dhungel, Upendra PrasadThe main purpose of the present study entitled ‘Strategies Used by Eighth Graders in Learning English Vocabulary’ was to investigate the English vocabulary learning strategies employed by the high and low achievers of grade eight. The study was conducted with eighty students (40 high achievers and 40 low achievers) studying in grade eight in the public schools of Kathmandu district. The data for the study were collected through questionnaire and interview. A vocabulary learning strategy questionnaire designed following the likert method was administered to the students to gather the required information. A structured interview schedule was used for collecting data from the teachers. The finding of the study showed that the high achievers used a wider variety of vocabulary learning strategies than the low achievers. This study consists of four chapters.Chapter one includes general background to the study, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definitions of the specific terms. Chapter two deals with methodology used for the study which includes sources of data, population of the study, sample population, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, chapter three incorporates analysis and interpretation of the data. Chapter four presents the findings of the study. It also suggests some pedagogical implications based on the findings.Item A Study of English Vocabulary Achievement of Fifth Graders in Ilam District(Department of English Education, 2013) Baral, MadhabThis study entitled "A study of English Vocabulary Achievement of Fifth Graders in Ilam District" attempts to explore the achievement of vocabulary included in the English textbook of grade five.The objectives of the study were to find out students' achievement of English Vocabulary items used in English textbook of Grade Five at public schools in Ilam District, in terms of gender and to suggest some recommendations for pedagogical implications.The researcher constructed a set of written questionnaire as the main instrument for data collection. The data was provided by the 48 students studying at public schools of Ilam district. The researcher selected six schools and eight students from each school using random sampling procedure. The data obtained were analyzed,evaluated and interpreted using descriptive approach and simple statistical tools i.e. mean, and percentage. The findings of the study showed that the English vocabulary achievement of the fifth graders was found satisfactory in total but while doing school wise analysis the students in total, highest vocabulary achievement were found satisfactory in School 'B'and School 'D'.It was also found that boys' achievement of English vocabulary was better than girls in total.The disparity in English vocabulary achievement was found in different schools. The present work is divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with methodology, which includes sources of data collection and limitation of the study. The third chapter includes analysis,and interpretation of data. Findings and recommendations are given in the four chapters. The sample of test items, answers of the students and references are given in the appendices.Item A Study of Vocabulary Used in Person to Person Exchanged Emails in English(Faculty of English Education, 2009) Nepal, NarayanThis thesis entitled “A Study of Vocabulary Used in Person to Person Exchanged Emails in English” is an attempt to list out and state descriptively the trends of the English vocabulary spellings in emails. The study presents the comparative analysis of the spelling of words used in person to person exchanged emails. The comparison is based on spelling trend and its frequency in use. The data for this study have been collected from naturally occurring person to person exchanged emails from the Nepalese and non-Nepalese users. Collection work was done by going to the non-Nepali visitors on various spots variously and particularly making access to the viewers’ net address via the researcher’s individual link and through different contact channels.Collected data were analysed accordingly and the findings were drawn.Nepali email users have been found using unusual spellings more;they are more random at the take of unusual spelling trend and its frequency, but with a smaller stock of vocabulary in English in comparison to that of non-Nepali email users. This study consists of four chapters. Chapter one consists of general background,literature review, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology encompassing the sources of data, population of study,sampling procedure, tools of data collection, process of data collection and limitation of the study. The researcher used primary sources of data, questionnaire and the vocabulary stuff from the email samples received directly and indirectly from 15 non-Nepalese and 25 Nepalese users on both genres respectively. Chapter three is the analysis and interpretation of the data and information obtained from the concerned respondents of the study. This section equally incorporates the type of analysis quantitatively and qualitatively made. Chapter four presents what findings and conclusions have been drawn from the analysis and interpretation of data. Inherent in this section is also the set of pedagogical implications and recommendation saccordingly.Item Teacher's beliefs on the use of realia in teaching english vocabulary(Department of English Education, 2015) Paudel, Durga RajThe study entitled Teachers' Beliefs on the Use of Realia in Teaching English Vocabulary was intended to find out the primary level English teachers' beliefs on the use of realia in teaching English vocabulary. In order to fulfill the objectives of this study, 40 primary level teachers were selected through purposive non-random sampling procedure. A predetermined set of questionnaire including both open and closed ended items were the research tool for eliciting the required information for the study. The collected data from the respondents was analyzed descriptively with the help of simple statistical tools. From the analysis and interpretation of the data, the result of this study showed that while teaching English vocabulary in primary school, teacher were found more positive about using realia for teaching English vocabulary. According to them, use of realia saves time, easily motivates students to learning process and helps for long term memory of learners. However, they were found to have faced several problems such as classroom management, arrangement of materials, student's participation and so on. The study is divided into five main chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction. It consists of general background, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter is related with review of both theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The chapter three deals with methods and procedures of the study i.e. how the research was carried out. It includes design of the study, population sample and sampling strategies, study area/field, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data analysis and interpretation procedures Similarly, chapter four is related to the analysis and interpretation of results. The final chapter presents conclusions and recommendation. The study ends with the references and appendices.Item Use of Elicitation in Developing Vocabulary(Central department of English Education, 2010) Paneru, Lila KumariThis study attempts to find out the use of elicitation in teaching vocabulary. Main focus of this study was directed to how effectively vocabulary can be taught by using elicitation techniques. It is an action research. To carry out this research both primary and secondary sources of data were used. For primary data, forty students of grade seven were selected as sample population. Then, the English vocabulary items were taught using elicitation techniques, by the researcher in direct involvement and their problems, actions and solutions were recorded. The test items like pre- test, time- on – task test, progressive tests and post- test were the tools for data collection. The pre-test and post- test consisted of the same items whereas progressive tests consisted of the test items related to evaluate the progress. Similarly, time-on- task tests were designed in relation to the respective lessons. Though the teaching vocabulary is taken as stressful job on the part of teachers and students, this study bears the better results of use of elicitation for teaching vocabulary. Only a few students showed problems in sentence- making. The main finding of this study is that use of elicitation in developing vocabulary is effective at grade seven. The study is divided into four main chapters and their sub- chapters. The first chapter deals with general background of the study, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology, data collection procedure and limitations of the study. The third chapter presents data through analysis and interpretation. The fourth chapter consists of the findings and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of data. References and appendices are attached at the end.Item Vocabulary Achievement of Grade Five(Faculty of English Education, 2018) Chaudhary, SamjhanaThe thesis entitled ‘Vocabulary Achievement of Grade Five' mainly explores the vocabulary achievement of fifth graders in Bodhebarsain cluster of Saptari district. The objectives of this thesis are to to find out the English vocabulary achievement of Grade Five students and to suggest some pedagogical implications based on the findings of the study. In course of writing this thesis, 40 informants were selected from different schools of Bodhebarsain cluster of Saptai district for the primary sources of data. They were randomly selected and distributed two different sets of sample test papers. Meanwhile, they were asked different questions based on a pre-set questionnaire. The head teachers and subject teachers were contacted, met, and discussed in order to collect primary sources of data. Apart from, articles, journals, magazines, along with related theses, and some related books were consulted as the secondary sources of data. The selected informants were visited and they were given the set of questionnaire and sample test papers to answer. The major findings of the thesis are : the responses in the category major word classes (content words ) indicates that the achievement of adverbs is better than that of nouns, verbs and adjectives, the greater percentage of the correct responses is in pronouns which indicates that the achievement of pronouns is better than that of conjunctions , prepositions and articles. The average calculation of both word classes shows that 24.5 i.e. 61.25% is the total vocabulary achievement of the selected students.Item Vocabulary Achievement of Madrasas Vs Public Schools Students of Grade Five(Department of English Education, 2006) Aryal, SitaThis study attempts to find the students' achievement of vocabularyitems included in the textbook of grade four. The students in this study arealtogether eighty in numbers, ten students from each of four Madrasas andfour public schools of Kathmandu valley were selected for this study. The researcher prepared a list of content words (nouns, verbs,adjectives and adverbs) used in the English textbook of grade four andcounted their frequency. She selected the 80 words having high frequency.Thirteen test items were constructed consisted of 80 individual vocabularyitems including 34 nouns, 27 verbs, 12 adjectives and 7 adverbs. The datawere provided by the 80 students offour Madrasas and four public schoolsof Kathmandu valley. The researcher visited four Madrasas and four public schools with aprepared set of test items. Ten students from each school were selected byusing simple random sampling approach in order to administer the test. Thetest was administered in the classroom for one and half an hours. The data obtained were analyzed and interpreted using descriptiveapproach and simple statistical tools i.e. mean and percentage. The findingof the study showed that the English vocabulary achievement of Madrasastudents was found satisfactory but achievement of public school studentswas not found satisfactory. Madrasa students' achievement was found betterthan that of public school students' achievement. The vocabularyachievement of girls in adjectives and adverbs was found better than that ofboys but in nouns and verbs, boys' performance was better than that of girls.The present work is divided into four chapters. The first chapterincludes general background, review of related literature, objectives of thestudy and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with themethodology, which includes sources of data collection and limitations ofthe study. The third chapter is concerned with the analysis and interpretationof data. Findings and recommendations are given in the fourth chapter. Themodels of test items, students' answers, references and interview guidelinesare given in the appendices.Item Vocabulary Achievement of Newar and Tamang Students(Central department of English Education, 2012) Nepal, ShobhaThe present thesis entitled ‘Vocabulary Acheivement of Newar and Tamang students’ aimed to find out English vocabulary achieved by Newar and Tamang students of Grade six. To achieve the objectives, a test item was prepared for data collection. Two lower secondary and two secondary schools’ students of grade six were selected. The test items were distributed to fifty Newar and fifty Tamang students. The data collected from the test items was analyzed and interpreted statistically. The findings showed that Tamang student’s vocabulary achievement was higher than Newar students of grade six. This thesis consists of four chapters: introduction, methodology, analysis and interpretation, and findings and recommendations. Chapter one begins with the general background of vocabulary and it tries to present some importance of teaching vocabulary, aspect, vocabulary achievement, review of the related literature, objective of the study, significance of the study are also included within chapter one. Similarly, chapter two deals with the methodology applied to conduct the study. It consists of source of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools and process of data collection and limitation of study. Chapter three contains the analysis and interpretation of data collected from informants. The data were analyzed and interpreted using simple statics and presented in terms of tables, and diagrams. The last chapter includes findings and recommendations drawn on the basis of analysis and interpretation of data which is followed by references and appendices.