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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 Bachelor Degree Students' Proficiency in Writing Persuasive Essays(Faculty of english education, 2018) Bhandari, AratiThis present study attempted to find out Bachelor Degree students' proficiency in writing persuasive essays. To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher used both primary and secondary sources of data. The researcher purposively selected 66students' from five colleges of different location of the Bharatpur Metropolitan City.Similarly, the researcher also took help of the books, articles and journals related to essay writing materials. The main tools of data collection consisted of test item that contained only one essay writing question.This study found out that the Bachelor Level students did not use essay elements like hook, thesis statement, background information,outline,topic sentence, explanation, example, conclusion, message, prediction or recommendation etc. in writing persuasive essays. The research study has been organized in five chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, statement of the problems, objectives, research question, significance of the study, delimitations of the study. The second chapter comprises the review of theoretical literature, empirical literature implication of the review for study and conceptual framework. Similarly,research methodology, study design, data analysis and interpretation procedures etc. are discussed in the third chapter. The fourth chapter includes analysis of data and interpretation of the results and summary of findings. In the last chapter, conclusion and recommendation for different groups a represented. The concluding chapter is followed by the references and appendices that list the sources and tools used in doing the thesis.Item Beliefs of English Teachers in Using Multimedia(Department of English Education, 2011) Adhikari, ManukaThis research work entitled ‘Beliefs of English Teachers in Using Multimedia’aims to find out the beliefs of the teachers of Kathmandu valley in usingmultimedia and to find out the challenges faced by the teachers while applyingthem. I prepared a set of questionnairecontaining both open-ended and close-ended questions to elicit the primary data. Fifty English teachers who usemultimedia in their teaching were selected using purposive sampling procedureand given questionnaire for data collection. The collected data were analyzed andinterpreted descriptively using simple statistical tool. The findings show that theteachers using multimedia in their teaching have positive beliefs on it. Ninety-eight per cent respondents favor it and suggest others to apply it as well. Thisstudy also shows that lack of skill in using multimedia, not enough technologicalknowledge on them, no alternative power support are the major challenges facedby the teachers. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with the introduction of theterm belief, teachers’ belief, and modern technology in language teaching. Sincethis study is related to the multimedia use, it includes history and development ofmultimedia, advantages of multimedia in ELT. This chapter further includes thereview of related literature, objectives and significance of the study. Similarly,chapter two deals with the procedure adopted to carry out the research. It containsthe information of data sources, sampling procedure, tool and process used fordata collection, and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of thecategorical analysis and interpretation of the data collected through thequestionnaire. Chapter four deals with the major findings of the study on the basisof analysis and interpretationof collected data. It also deals with somerecommendations made on the basis of the findings. Finally, chapter four isfollowed by the references and appendices.Item Conversational Analysis of Tourists and Tourist Guides(Department of English Education, 2011) Devkota, Surya PrasadThis study deals with the conversational analysis of tourists and tourist guides.The main objective of this study was to analyze the conversations of tourists and tourist guides in terms of their sex, age, qualification and experience. The data was collected from different parts of Kathmandu and Pokhara. The guides were selected from four different trekking agencies of Kathmandu and Pokhara. I used the non-random purposive sampling procedure. It is found that there are in he rent differences in the use of the English language due to the qualifications and experience. To some extent, pronunciation is imitable so anyone can copy the native like pronunciation but the grammatical correctness is not which needs formal study. This thesis has been divided into four chapters. Chapter one consists of introduction, general background, review of the related literature, objectives and the significance of the study. Chapter two comprises methodology in which sources of data, tools of data, procedures of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, chapter three includes analysis and interpretation of the collected data. The final chapter includes the findings and recommendations of the study.Item Developing Short Story Through Pictures(Department of English Education, 2011) Baruwal, YubarajThe present studyentitledDeveloping Short Story Through Pictureswasconducted with the aim to see the effectiveness of pictures in developing shortstory in secondary level students. The study was carried out using both primaryand secondary sources of data. The primary data wereobtained from thirtystudents of Green Village Secondary School, Kirtipur,which were taken assample of study. Forthesecondarysources ofdata Ihad useddifferent booksand other materials. I administered pre-test, progressive tests, post test as atools to collect the data. After conducting different tests, the results of all testswere compared and analyzed to determine effectiveness of pictures ondeveloping short story. After analyzing and interpreting the data, the pictureswere found to beeffective in teaching short story in secondary level students.So, it would be betters to apply picture as a tool to teach writing short story. This thesisconsists offour chapters. The first chapter deals with generalbackground, review of relatedliterature, objectives and significanceofthestudy. The second chapter presents the methodology adopted to carry out thestudy, sources of data, sampling procedures, tools and process of datacollection and limitationsof the study. The third chapter deals with the analysisand interpretation of data.The fourth chapter presents the findingsandrecommendationsof the study. Finally,references and appendiceshave beenincluded.Item Effectiveness of Active Learning Strategy for Developing Critical Thinking(Central department of English Education, 2011) Sah, Dipesh KumarThe present study entitled ‘The Effectiveness of Active Learning Strategies for developing Critical Thinking’ is an attempt to find out the techniques to develop critical thinking in reading skill. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate some active learning strategies for effective reading comprehension. For this purpose, I experimentally used three active learning strategies which were TPS (Think, Pair and Share) Approach, SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) technique and Five Questions technique on the targeted group. Active learning strategies were taken as instructional activity involving students in doing things and thinking about what they are doing. A simple questions and answers format addressed to the issues of how to create more "active" classroom spaces and what barriers teachers should be aware of while teaching reading skill. The research was based on both primary and secondary sources of data. The primary data were collected through the tests (pre-test, progressive test, and post test) given to 32 students selected purposively. The major finding of the study showed that active learning strategies were effective in developing critical thinking. This thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter one introduces general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology adopted for the study. It encompasses source of data, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three presents an analysis and interpretation of the data. In this chapter, data have been analyzed and interpreted through statistical and descriptive approach. Chapter four presents the findings derived from the analysis of the data. On the basis of the findings, some recommendations have been presented in the last chapterItem The Effectiveness of Class Test on Students'performance on Reading and Writing Skills of Grade-Eight(Department of English Education, 2007) Adhikari, Krishna PrasadThe main purpose of the present study was to find out theeffectiveness of class-Test (Class progress Test) in English languageLearning inGradeEight. The researcher selectedoneHigh School ofNawalparasi District. The total sample population of this study consistedoffortystudents of grade eight who were chosen in a systematic randomway. The total population was divided into two equal proficiency levelgroups: experimental andcontrolledon the basis of their pretest results.Both groups were taught by the researcher himself for 42 days on thesame lesson plans but the experimental group was taught with theapplication of class tests. The experimental group was given continuousfeedback and encouragement after class tests during the experiment butsuch treatments were not given to the controlled group. After theexperimental treatment, the same set of test items which wasadministered in pre-test was used in post-test to collect the data. Thecollected data from the students of both groups were compared, analyzedand interpreted to find out the effectiveness of class-test (class-progresstest) inEnglish language learning. By this study it was found that class-test (class-progress test) is very effective on students' performance onreading and writing skills. This thesis consists of four chapters: Introduction, Methodology,Analysis and Interpretation, and Findings and Recommendations. The first chapter includes the general background, review of relatedliterature, statement of the research hypotheses, objectives of the studyand significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted during theresearch study which consists of sources of data, population of the study, sample population, tools for data collection, process of data collection,the design of the study, and limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of data. Theraw scores obtained by the students of both groups were tabulated item-wisely and holistically. The mean scores of both groups in each item werecompared to find out the effectiveness of class-test. The last chapter comprises of the findings and recommendationsofthe studyfollowed by bibliography and appendix.Item Effectiveness of content–Based in struction in Teaching Reading(Department of English Education, 2011) Chimariya, Anju KumariThe present study was conducted to examine the“Effectiveness ofContent-Based Instruction in Teaching Reading.”The objective of the study wastofind out the effectiveness of content-based instruction inteaching reading.Thisstudy was conducted in Shree Chandrodaya Higher secondary School Kamane,Hetauda.The students of grade 9 were taken as the sample of the study. First,Iadministered a pre-test using the test items in the beginning and on the basis ofthe result of pre-test, experimental teaching was started.Three progressivetests were administered in the interval of seven class periods each. Itaught for25 days using content-based instruction method. The action research wasconducted to find out the strengths and weaknessesof content-basedinstruction on teaching reading. After the completion of teaching, a post-testwas administered .The results of both the tests were compared to determine theeffectiveness of content-based instruction on teaching reading. Content-basedinstruction was found to be effectivein teaching reading. This thesis work consists of four chapters. Chapter one is an introductorychapter which includes general background, objectives of the study, review ofthe related literature and the significance of the study. Chapter two provides thedetails of the methodology and the procedures followed by the researcher in thecollection of theprimary as well secondary data.It particularly consists ofsources of data, sampling procedures, tools for data collection, process of datacollection and limitations of the study.Chapter three consists of analysisandinterpretation of the data.The data wereanalyzed and interpreted on the basisof the average score in the pre-test and post-test. The last chapter describes the 9 findings and recommendations derived from this research. This chapter isfollowed by the references and appendices respectively.Item Effectiveness of Cooperative Language Learning in Teaching Creative Writing(Department of English Education, 2011) Yadav, Shatrughan KumarThis research study entitled "Effectiveness of Cooperative Language Learningin Teaching Creative Writing" was an attempt to find out the effectiveness ofcooperative language learning in teaching creative writing and aims to listsome pedagogical implications. The study was conducted in Bal Sansar EnglishSchool, Siraha. The students of class ten were purposively selected as thesample of the study. A pre-test was administered before starting teaching. Thestudents were taught for a month using cooperative language learning method.Three progress tests were administered during the course of teaching. Finally, apost-test was administered to determine the students' creative writingproficiency. And altogether five testswere administeredandscores werecompared with each other. The data were analyzed using statistical tools likeaverage, percentage, mean and presented using paraorthographicalmodesliketables. After interpretation and analysis of data, it was found that thecooperative language learning method was effective in teaching creativewriting at secondary level. The 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 under which sources of data, sampling procedure, research tools, process of data collection and limitations of the study have been included. Similarly, the third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of data. 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 Effectiveness of Integrated Teaching of Language Skills(Faculty of Education, 2010) Adhikari, DibbeshorThis research attempts to find out the effectiveness of integrated teaching of language skills in language teaching. For this purpose, the researcher selected the students of Grade IX of Shree Niranjana Higher Secondary School, Marpak-2, Dhading. The researcher collected data from the sample population of sixty students of the same school. The pre-test and post-test were taken using the test items designed. Students’ responses were recorded and they were provided the score in the score sheet. The post-test was administered immediately after twenty four teaching periods using intergrated approach to the teaching of language skills to group ‘A’ (Experimental group) and as usual to group 'B' (Control Group). Their scores were tabulated and analyzed on the basis of average differences and their percentages. Pre-test and post-test results of the two groups were compared to find out the effectiveness of using integreated teaching aproach on four language skills. It is concluded from the study that using integreated teaching aproach on four language skills had positive effect in language teaching since group A had more average increasment in marks than that of group B. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one consists of general background, review of related literature, objectives and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology. It includes the sources of data, sampling procedure, tools of data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of the data. The data were tabulated and analyzed on the basis of the test items. Chapter four draws out the major findings and recommendations on the basis of the analysis made in chapter three. Eventually, references and appendixes are given.Item Effectiveness of Modelling Technique in Teachingreading Skill(Faculty of Education, 2010) Bastola, Yadav PrasadThis research entitled "Effectiveness of Modelling Technique in TeachingReading skill " is an attempt to find out the effectiveness of modellingtechnique in teaching reading comprehension at secondary level. Forthis, theresearcher purposively selected a government-aidedschool from Parbatdistrict. The name of the school was Kalika SecondarySchool which is locatedin Khurkot VDC, Parbat. Fortystudentsof class nine of the school wereinvolved in the study.The tests (pre-test and post-test) were the major tools fordata collection. A pre-test was administered before actual classroom teachingand a post-test was administeredat last. The researcher himself was involved inthe experimental teaching for the purpose of carrying out this research. Afteradministering the pre-test, the students were ranked from the first to the fortiethpositions on the basis of the result of the pre-test. Then they were divided intotwo groups taking the oddandeven ranking. One group (group A) was taughtby using modelling technique whereas another group (group B) was taughtwithout using modelling technique. Each group attended twenty lessons. Thensame test was givento both the groups. After that the results of these two testswere compared to determine the effectiveness of modelling technique inteaching reading comprehension.The study showed that teaching throughmodelling technique has better impact on the result. It was also found thatmodelling technique has better readingcomprehension power. The study consists of four chapters. Chapter one consists of brief introductionof related area of the study. It includes objectives, literature review, andsignificance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology andprocedure adopted during the research work.Chapter three deals with theanalysis and interpretation of data. The data have been analyzed and interpretedon the basis of the difference between the pre-test and the post-testresults.Chapter four includes the findings and recommendations.Item Effectiveness of Strip-Story in Teachingreading Comprehension(Faculty of Education, 2008) Kafle, Deepak PrasadThis research attempts to find out the 'Effectiveness of Strip-Storyin Teaching Reading Comprehension. For this purpose, the researcherselected the students of grade IX of NewVision English High School,Pharsatikar, Rupandehi. The researcher collected data from the sampledpopulation of thirty- two students of the same school. The students weregiven pre-test and post-test using the test items designed. Thepost testwas administered after twenty - two days teaching using strip storytechnique to group A (Experimental) and without for group 'B'(Controlled). Their scores were tabulated and analyzed items of averagedifference and its percentage. Two results (pre-test and post test) of thetwo groups (experimental and controlled) were compared to find out theeffectiveness ofstrip story technique. It is concluded from the study that strip story has positive effect inteaching reading comprehension since group 'A' has increased its averagepercentage with (15.42) against group 'B' which has increased itsaveragepercentage with6.81. The first chapter consists of general background, review of relatedliterature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two consists of methodology of the study. It encompassesthe sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure tools fordata collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of thecollected data. The data were tabulated and analyzed on the basis of thetest items. Chapter four consists of the major findings and recommendationmade after the analysis of the data which follows references andappendices.Item Effectiveness of Teaching Manual at Grade Eleven(Department of English Education, 2008) Joshi, DhananjayaThis study entitled "Effectiveness of Teaching Manual at Grade Eleven" was conducted to examine the effectiveness of Teaching Manual while teachingcompulsory English at grade eleven. This study was conducted in SiddhanathHigher Secondary School Jimuwa, Kanchanpur. The students of grade eleven weretaken as the sample of the study. The selected students were divided into twogroups: experimental and control on the basis of the pre-test result with odd-evenranking. To collect data the researcher taught both the groups upto nineteen regularclasses. The experimental group was taught by using teaching manual whereas thecontrol group was taught without using teaching manual. The same teaching item,medium of instruction and materials were used to teach boththe groups. They weretaught side by side. After the completion of the classroom teaching, a post-test wasgiven and the result of both the tests were compared. Similarly, the scores obtainedby these two groups (experimental and control) were also compared to determinethe effectiveness of the teaching manual in teaching compulsory English. From the study, it was found that teaching English by using teaching manualwas more effective than teaching without using it. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter One is an introductory chapter.It includes general background, the review of the related literature, objectives ofthe study and significance of the study. Chapter Two deals with the methodological procedures applied during thestudy. Chapter Three consists of analysis and interpretation of the data.Chapter four deals with the findings and recommendations of the study. Lastly, this chapter is followed by references and appendices.Item Effectiveness of Thematic Approach in Teaching Reading(Department of English Education, 2011) Gautam, Khim RajThe present study was conducted to examine the“Effectiveness of ThematicApproach inTeaching Reading Comprehension”. The objectives of thestudy were to find out the effectiveness of Thematic Approach in teachingreading comprehension and to suggest some pedagogical implications. Thisstudy was conducted in Shree Devchuli Higher Secondary School,Nawalparasi. The students of Grade XI were taken as the sample of the study.First, the researcher took a pre-test and on the basis of the result of pre-test,real teaching was started. The researcher taught for 24 days using ThematicApproachto reading. The experimental research was conducted to find out theeffectiveness of Thematic approach in reading comprehension. After thecompletion of teaching, a post-test was taken. The results of both tests werecompared to determine the effectiveness of thematic approach usingexperimental research on teaching reading. It was found that thematic approachwas effective in teaching reading comprehension. This thesis work consists of four chapters. Chapter one consists of introductoryof related area of the study. It includes objectives and significance of the study.Chapter two provides the details of the methodology and the proceduresfollowed by the researcher in the collection of the primary as well secondarydata. Chapter three consists of analysisand interpretation of the data. The datawere analyzed and interpreted on the basis of the average score in the pre-testand post-test. The last chapter describes the findings and recommendationsderived from this research.Item Effectiveness of Using Technology in Teaching Short Stories(Department of English Education, 2011) Joshi, Gopal DattThis thesis ‘Effectiveness of Using Technology in Teaching short Stories’ has beencarried out practically and comparatively to find out the effectiveness of using technology(mainly Laptop, PowerPoint presentation, Multimedia projector and the Internet)whileteaching short stories. To carry out this research 50 students of grade 12 of Shree KrishnaSnatak Campus were selected as the sample population and this Sample population wasdivided into two equivalent groups, namely controlled and experimental oneon the basisof odd and even marks obtained in the pre-test. After the division of the group, bothgroups were taught the same subject matter differently i.e. the controlled group wastaught through the traditional mode of teaching as usual whereas the experimental groupwas taught through the use of technology. In other words, the procedure for teaching tothe experimental group was like showing the real photograph of the story writer alongwith the background information in slide shows as far as practicable followed by the imaginary pictures of the characters along with their characterization and role-relationship. Similarly, at the end the summary of the story is presented in Power Point presentation whereby the students are asked to visualize the whole story critically so thatthey can become more critical and creative. In case of difficult words put forward by the students, they were first encouraged to induce the meaning in group themselves but if they failed to do so then, the teacher supplies the contextual meaning. After the completion of the teaching for thirty days, a post-test was administered to find out the effectiveness of newly introduced variable i.e. the technology. The post-test scores of the experimental group exceeded the pre-test scores and post-test scores of the controlled group. It shows that the use of technology in teaching short stories is effective. This thesis is divided into four chapters .Each chapter is divided into different sub chapters. The first chapter introduces the study in terms of general background, literaturere view, objectives and the significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted in the study. Methodology consists of the sub-topics like sources of data collection, sample population, sampling procedures, tools for the data collection and the limitations of the study. Chapter three represents analysis and interpretation of the collected data. In this chapter the collected data are analyzed and interpreted with the help of different statistical and descriptive tools. Finally, the chapter four incorporates the findings and some pedagogical implications of the study. The reference and appendix are the concluding part of the research.Item The Effectiveness of Visualization in Reading Comprehension(Faculty of English Education, 2011) Thapa Magar, Tarka Bahadurhe thesis entitled 'The Effectiveness of Visualization in Reading Comprehension’is an attempt to find out whether visualization affects in reading comprehension or not. The aim of this research was to find out the significant difference of visualizers and non-visualizers in reading comprehension using visualization techniques.To meet the objective of this research study, sixty students of grade nine from Shree Adarsha Higher Secondary School Ghumnekhali, Dailekh,were selected for research. Twenty-five questions including short answers-question,fill in the blank space,true-false, tick the best alternative and matching items were used to collect the data.Students were also asked to draw pictures, mime,and play drama to check if they visualized or not.Collected data from pretest and post-test were analyzed and tabulated using formula of mean, standard deviation,variance and 't' test.In the pretest, there was no significant difference between two groups but when the researcher administered post-test at the end of research study, the researcher found significant difference between two groups. This thesis is divided into four chapters: Introduction,Methodology, Analysis and interpretation of the data and Findings and recommendations. The first chapter deals with general background,review of the related literature,objectives of the study significance of the study and definition of the specific terms.The second chapter contains theme thodology. It includes source of data,sampling procedure,tools for data collection,process of data collection and the limitations of the study.The third chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of data collected.The final chapter includes findings and recommendations of the study.In this chapter,pedagogical implications have also been recommended for the further study and better improvement for reading comprehension in any level.Item Free Writing Proficiency of Grade Ten Students(Department of English Education, 2011) Khanal, Peram RajThe present research study entitled “Free Writing Proficiency of Grade Ten Students”attempts to find out the actual free writing proficiency of the tenth graders of Bardiyadistrict in terms of organization of information, proper use of mechanics of writing,clarity of writing, cohesion and coherence and economy and completeness. To carryout the research, the researcher selected ten secondary (five private and fivegovernment-aided) schools of Bardiya district by using non-random judgmentalsampling procedure and hundred students (ten from each school) by using simplerandom sampling procedure. The research was carried out using both primary andsecondary sources of data. Aset of test items consistingofparagraph writing,dialogue writing, letter writing, report writing and essay writing was the tool for datacollection. The data were analyzed and interpreted on the basis of the tabulated data inaccordance with the set objectives. The findings showthat the total free writingproficiency of the students was poor. The students of private schoolsare seen moreproficient than the students of government-aided schools. Among the students of allselected schools, the students ofJanajyoti Higher Secondary Boarding School are themost proficient and the students of Shree Chure Higher Secondary School are the leastproficient. Similarly, the students are most proficient in dialogue writing and leastproficient in essay writing. This thesis comprises four main chapters. The first chapter deals with introductionwhich consists of general background, review of the related literature, objectives ofthe study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with themethodology used to carry out the research: the sources of data, sample population,sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection andlimitations of the study. The third chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of thedata to find outthe actual free writing proficiency of the students. The collected datawere analyzed and interpreted by using simple statistical tools like average,percentage and descriptive approach. The fourth chapter presents the findings derivedfrom 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 includesthe references and appendices.Item Performance on listening and Speaking Versus Reading and Writing: A Case of SLC Examination(Department of English Education, 2008) Osti, Indra PrasadThis thesis has been prepared with the foremost objectives of finding out the differences in the scores obtained by the students in thelistening/speaking and reading/writing exam of English in SLC examination and finding out causes of difference in the scores of those examinations. The sample population for this research were fifty students of five different colleges and fifteen secondary level English teachers of the concerned institutions. The tools employed for the primary data collection were two separate sets of questionnaire for the students and the teachers. For the secondary data collection, mark ledger provided by OCE along with other books and journals were used. The data have been analyzed in terms of statistical tool –percentage. The major finding of the study as responded by the teachers is that all educational activities have been affected by the external factors such as strike, unnecessary holidays, political activities and the lack of sufficient materials to practice those language skills in time.Similarly, most of the students realized that only one set of question for all the students is not suitable to test their performance. As a result, the performance of the students in different language skills found varied. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, review of the related literatures, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology to carry out the research. This chapter consists of sources of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of data.This chapter consists of three subsections. The first sub-section deals with the description of the difference in the scores made by the students inlistening/speaking and reading/writing exams. The second sub-section deals with the description of closed-ended and open-ended questions with there sponses made by the teachers. The third sub-section deals with the description of closed-ended and open-ended questions and their responses made by the students. The chapter four consists of findings and recommendations of the study.Item Practices of English for Specific Purposes at Institute of Agriculture(Department of English Education, 2011) Khanal, NishaThis research is a study of "Practices of English For Specific Purposes At Institute of Agriculture”. This study aimed to find out how important the English language for the students of agriculture has and also try to find out its relevancy, advantages, and weaknesses in technical writing. It also tries to throw light on the particular works in comparison to others for which the necessity of English always strikes. This study was carried out using both the primary and secondary sources of data. All the data were collected through questionnaires. For the primary source of data the researcher selected Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science Campus of Chitwan especially post graduate students. The research selected the students from the first semester (who had just finished their first semester exam) and from the third semester, the numbers of respondents were around 35/35 from the each semester. From the study it has been found that the respondents need English in almost each of their works. Where the knowledge of English becomes a must for them is in teaching learning activities, communicating with the person of different fields, presenting/attending seminars, meetings, presenting country profiles, writing reports, proposals, seminar papers, and so on. This study mainly includes four chapters. The first chapter introduces the study which consists of general background, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter mainly concerns with the methodology used in the study: the source of data, sampling procedure, tools of data collection and limitations of the study. Likewise, the third chapter of the study comprises analysis and interpretation of the data. The fourth chapter introduces the product of the analysis and interpretation of the data, i.e. findings of the study and recommendations on the basis of findings. The final section presents the references and appendices which are very much important for the validation of the research.Item Problems in Teaching and Learning Listening Skill(Department of English Education, 2008) Joshi, Puspa RajThis research study is conducted to find out the problems and theircauses in teaching and learning listening skill in Grade 10. In order to findout the problems and their causes, the researcherprepared two types of tools:questionnaire for the teachers and studentsand checklist for classroom observation. The questionnaire for theteachers was distributed to fiveEnglish teachers of Dadeldhura district,who have been teaching in secondary level. Similarly, the questionnairefor the students was distributed to 40 students of grade 10, 20 girls and 20boys. The researcher visited five selected schools, three times each, tofindout the problems in teaching listening skill and the factors affectingthe same. It has been found out that lack ofrequiredphysical facilities, lackofenough teaching materialsandstudents' poor English backgroundarethe main problems in teaching and learning listening skill in grade 10. This thesis comprises offourchapters. The first chapter deals withthe general background, in which English language teaching(ELT) inNepal, teaching language skills, teaching listening skills, techniques ofteaching listening, types of listening materials, literature review,objectives and the significanceofthe study are included. Chapter two includes the methodology dealing with the sourcesofdata, population of the study, sampling procedure, research tools, theprocess of data collection, limitation of the study and definition ofspecific terms. Chapter three covers the analysis andinterpretation of the collecteddata using different charts, tables and figures.