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Item Expressions for Seeking Informationan Dconfirmation in English and Nepali(Department of English Education, 2009) Adhikari, Kamal PrasadThis study is to identify and compare the exponents of seeking informationand confirmation used by the native English and Nepali speakers. Theresearcher, for the study, took the data from the sample population. Therewere altogether 80 informants in the sample population out of which 40 wereNepali and other 40 were English native speakers. The study was entirelybased on the responses from the sample population (i.e. primary data) withthe helpof the questionnaire distributed to them. Then the exponents given bythem were listed for the analysis and interpretation on the basis of which theresearcher came up with the conclusion that while seeking information andconfirmation. Nepali speakers used more honorific forms than Englishspeakers in general. To be specific, Nepali speakers used more non-honorificforms than English speakers for seeking information from their friends andpolicemen (by their officers). Similarly, Nepali speakers used non-honorificforms more than English speakers for seeking confirmation from their officeclerks, friends and sons. With other relationship, English speakers were foundto be using more non-honorific forms than Nepali speakers. The study is divided into four chapters.Chapter one, the introductorychapter, includes general background, review of the related literatureobjective of the study, and significance of the study.Chapter twodeals withthe methodology applied to carry out the research under which sources ofdata, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collectionand limitations of the study were presented.Chapter threepresents analysisand interpretation of the data. In this section both statistical as well asdescriptive approach were used.Chapter fourincorporates findings andrecommendations of the research. The concluding part of the thesis isoccupied by the references and appendices. ixItem Influence of first language in English pronunciation among the Tharu learners(Department of English Education, 2023) Chaudhary, Raman KumarThis thesis entitle Influence of First Language in English Pronunciation in Tharu learners was an attempt to identify the interference of Tharu language on the pronunciation of English words to Tharu learners. I collected the data using both primary and secondary sources. The sample population of the study consisted of 40 students of class ten. I took a test consisting of 70 different types of words to collected primary data. I used the simple random sampling procedure for sample the population. After the analysis of the data, I found that there were positive as well as negative interference of Tharu language in learning in English language. Tharu language sound such as /p/, /t/, /k/, /b/, /d/, /g/, /m/, /n/, /ŋ/, /ʧ/, /s/, /r/, /j/, /w/, facilitated to the acquisition of second language sound. Maximum students felt difficulty in pronouncing labio dental sounds /f/ as well as /v/ and dental sounds /θ/ and /ð/, because there are not labio dental and dental sounds in Tharu language. That’s why there is negative impact on acquisition of second language sound in dental and labio dental sound. All students pronounced sound /ʃ/ as /s/ and voiced sound /h/ as voiceless. Sound /z/ is pronounced in different ways as /z/, /ʤ/, /ʒ/ because of lack of exposure. And maximum students pronounced rhotic sound /r/ after vowel. According to GA (General American), it is accepted but the text items were analyzed and explained based on British Dictionary. This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction. It consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition key terms. Chapter two deals with review of the theoretical literature, introduction to Tharu language and their community, review of empirical literature, implication of the literature and conceptual framework. Chapter three deals the design and methods of the study population, sample and sampling strategies, source of data, data collection procedures data analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical considerations. Chapter four deal with analysis of data and interpretation of the result and summary of findings. The last chapter deals conclusion, recommendations, references and appendices.Item Negative and Interrogative Transformations in the English and Koyee(Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu ,Nepal, 2011) Rai, Harka JangThis study was conducted to find out the 'Negative and Interrogative Transformations in the English and Koyee'. The native speakers of the Koyee Rai language were primary sources of data for this thesis. The informants were divided into two groups: equal number of educated and uneducated persons. I used stratified random sampling procedure to sample the population. The interview and questionnaire were used as research tools for data collection. I have found mainly three negative markers, i.e. 'a-', 'ā-' and 'me?' in the Koyee language but English has many negative markers, i.e. 'no', not, no one/none, nobody, never, barely, hardly, rarely, scarely, seldom, neither....nor etc. Among them, not is attached as suffix in verb and other negative markers are isolate put before and after the verb. And to make questions in written form and spoken form are marked by only putting interrogative marks at the end of the sentence in the Koyee language. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction part of the study which consists of general background with several subtopics, namely, introduction to English and Koyee Ethnic Group and Koyee Rai language, an introduction to contrastive analysis, an overview of transformation theory, negative and interrogative transformations, review of related literature, objectives of the study, etc. The second chapter deals with the methodology which consists of the sources of data collection, sampling procedure and limitations. The third chapter deals with the analysis, interpretation, presentation and comparison of the data. The fourth chapter deals with the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications of the study.Item Noun Phrase Structures in Maithili and English: A Comparative Study(2012) Yadav, Ram KumariThe research work entitled, "Noun Phrase Structures in English and Maithili: A Comparative Study", compares noun phrase structures in Maithili and English Language in terms of nominal, pronominal, gerundive, infinitival and objective heads which consist of an obligatory head and one or more than one optional modifiers. Each of the heads is investigated in relation to number and gender in Maithili and English. The Maithili data were collected through oral structured interviews with the native speakers of Maithili using the pre- determined set of questions and the selected works from the noun phrase as the sources of data. This thesis has four chapters: Introduction, Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation and Findings and Recommendations. The first chapter contains general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definitions of the different terms. Likewise, second chapter consists of sources of data, research tools, and process of data collection and limitation of the study. Similarly, third chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of the data obtained. The last chapter deals with findings and recommendations of the thesis.