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Item Code Mixing in the Nepali Essays(Department of English Education, 2008) Bhandari, BhagwatiThis research work is basically a study of English Code Mixing in theNepali Essays. The objectives of the study were to find out mixed codes in theNepali essays, to analyze language of code mixing in the Nepali essays in termsof word classes, phrases, sentence types, morphemic structures, syllabicity andcontext. To fulfill these objectives the researcher used non-random judgmentalsampling procedure to collect the data. Only secondary sources of data wereconsulted; twelve Nepali essays were purposively selected for the study. The overall study comes to the end finding that there is a large amount ofEnglish code mixing in the Nepali essays. Word level mixing has the highestmixing of other levels. Noun phrases have also been mixed highly. The mixing ofEnglish sentences and abbreviations are significantly high. Simple sentences havehigher occurrences than compound and complex sentences. Monomorphemicwords are used highly. Likewise, in terms of syllabicity, disyllabic words havethe highest position. While describing the context, (in which context to Englishwords takeplace in Nepali essays) words that have Nepali equivalence are higheroccurrences than without having Nepali equivalent terms. It contains mainly four chapters. Chapter one deals with introductory parts,which mainly consists of general background, description and reason of codeswitching and mixing, introduction to literature, historical background of Nepaliessays etc. It also includes the review of various related research works. Similarly, chapter two introduces the methodology for the study. At first,the researcher prepared the checklist and collected all English words mixed in theNepali essays. It also introduces the sources of data for the study, tools andprocess of data collection and the limitations of the study. Chapter three dealswith the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. The data are analyzedand interpreted using the statistical tools like table, pie chart etc. And finally, chapter four encompasses with the summary of the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications of the study.Item The Content Validity of the English Textbook for Grade Nine(Department of English Language Education, 2006) Adhikari, Rudra PrasadThe ultimate goal of this study is to determine the content validity of English textbook for grade nine to find out to what extent the objectives set out in the curriculum are related to the content of the textbook. The findings of the study is based on perception of the experts, responses of the teachers, students and researcher himself on the contents of the textbook. The study consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study. It includes the general background, objectives of the textbook for grade nine, content validity of the textbook, review of the literatures, objectives of this study and signification of the study. The second chapter deals with methodology applied to carry out this research by the researcher. The third chapter is an analysis and interpretation of the responses of English teachers, students and experts of ELT on the content validity of the English textbook for grade nine. Mostly this chapter is divided into five sections. The first section deals with the analysis of the teacher's view. The second deals with the analysis of the student's views. The third section deals with the analysis of the expert's view on the content validity. The fourth section deals with the researcher's analysis based on textbook. The end section deals with the calculation of the different views on the content validity of the textbook. The fourth chapter is related with the findings derived from the analysis and interpretation of the data. Mainly content coverage language functions were valid but other aspects like selection and gradation, language skills, interest level and language structures are less valid. Finally, some recommendations are made for further improvement of the textbook and some educational implications are referred.