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Item Listening Proficiency of Sixth Grade Students(Central department of English Education, 2012) Acharya, ManahariThe thesis entitled "Listening proficiency of Sixth Grade Students" is dealt with the listening proficiency of grade six students of Kathmandu valley as a whole. In order to carry out this research, I collected data from government- aided and private schools from the students studying in Kathmandu valley. The total sample population of the study consisted of 40 students who were selected by using non-random judgemental sampling procedure. I used a test as a main tool which comprised of three types of test items based on ‘Our English Book Grade Six.’ The tests were designed to test the listening proficiency in word, phrase and sentence levels. The total number of test items was 30, each test items carrying 2 score. The scores obtained by the students were tabulated on the basis of the objectives specified. The findings of the study show that the average listening proficiency of the sixth graders is 63.45 per cent. The study shows that the students of private schools are far more proficient than those of government-aided schools where the students of government-aided school have obtained 72 per cent in listening word, phrase and sentence as a whole, the students of public school have obtained 54.91 per cent only. Similarly, in word, phrase and sentence level, I could not find vast difference in listening proficiency between girls and boys where boys obtained 63.25 per cent and girls obtained 63.66 per cent. I found equal proficiency in word and phrase i.e. 73.5 per cent and 72.25 per cent. But they have least proficiency in listening sentence i.e. 44.62 per cent only. The study consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology. It consists of sources of data, sampling population and procedure, tools for data collection, procedure of data collection and limitation of the study. Chapter three deals with analysis and interpretation of the data. The data has been analyzed under grammatical units, gender and school-wise comparison. Chapter four deals with findings and recommendations on the basis of the findings.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.Item A Study on The Use of Audio-Tape for Listening Comprehension(Department of Education English, 2011) Sawad, Dharm BahadurThe present research work entitled A Study on the Use of Audio-tape for Listening Comprehension was carried out to explore the use of audio-tape or other supporting materials while teaching listening at the secondary level. In this research, I used random sampling procedure and took the sample of five English teachers of the selected schools and sixty students of grade nine from five secondary schools of Achham district. Two types of research tools were used for data collection i.e. two sets of questionnaire, checklist forms and fifteen open-ended and close-ended questions for teachers and students. On the completion of all studies, I came to conclude that the teachers were not found giving listening test in the final examinations. It was said that even in the district level examination, there was not listening test except SLC board examination. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study with general background of the study, teaching language skills, importance of listening, the components of listening and techniques of teaching listening, review of literature, objectives and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the procedures adopted to carryout the research. It contains the sources of data, sampling procedure, research tools, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the data. Chapter four deals with the major findings of the study derived on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of the data. This chapter also deals with recommendations made on the basis of findings of the study. Finally, the references and appendices are also included.