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Item Apologies in English and Magar Language(Faculty of English Education, 2016) Dhungana, GopalThis research work entitled Apologies in English and Magar Language was carried out to identify and compare the forms of apologies used in English and Magar languages. In order to carry out this research, I used both primary and secondary sources of data. A set of questionnaire was prepared as a tool for data collection. I sampled 60(30/30) native speakers of both English and Magar languages through purposive/ judgmental non- random sampling procedure using questionnaire as a research tool. On the basis of the collected data, the comparison between English and Magar was done using simple statistical tools such as frequency and percentage. The major findings of the study show that the English native speakers were found using more apologetic responses than the Magar native speakers and Magar native speakers were found using more repaired statements than English native speakers while apologizing in various situations. This study consists of four chapters. The first chapter contains general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definition of the specific terms. The second chapter includes sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of data and the fourth chapter contains findings and recommendations of the study. In the final section of the study references and appendix are included.Item Case in English and Magar:A Comparative Study(Department of English Language Education, 2007) Thapa, Raj KumarThe thesis entitled 'CASE IN ENGLISH AND MAGAR: ACOMPARTIVE STUDY' is an attempt to identify cases in the Magarlanguage and to compare and contrast them with those of English. Theresearcher has found out that the Magar is a tripartite type of languagewhereas English is a nominative accusative type of language. In tripartitesystem, all the arguments S, A and P are treated differently. As a result,they are marked with case markers. The cases identified in the Magar aregenitive, instrumental, dative, comitative, ablative/source, goal andlocative. Suffixes are found to be used as case markers in the Magarlanguage. Word order does not play a vital role in meaning change in theMagar language. The researcher collected data from forty-eight native speakers ofBarah Magarati language also known as Dhut Magar language. TwoVDCs namely Radhapur and Rajhena of Banke district were the researchfields for the researcher to elicit data from the informants. He used boththe primary and secondary sources to carry outthis research work. The thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals withintroduction. It consists of general background, importance of the Englishlanguage, the sociolinguistic situation in Nepal, an introduction to theMagar language, an introduction to case, CA and its importance onlanguage teaching, review of related literature, objectives of the study andsignificance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology. It encompasses sources ofdata, population of the study, sampling procedure, research tools,processes of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three deals with analysis and interpretation of the data. Itcomprises identification and analysis of cases in the Magar language andsimilarities and differences between the Magar and English cases. Chapter four encompasses findings and recommendations andpedagogical implications.Item Challenges Faced by Magar Learners in Learning English(Department of English Education, 2021) Thapa, AmritaThis study entitled Challenges Faced by Magar Students in Learning English intended to identify the challenges faced by Magar students in learning English and to suggest some pedagogical implications. A mixed method research design was used in this study. Forty secondary level 'Magar students of Harinas Rural Municipality' were selected as a sample using purposive non-random sampling strategy. In this study, questionnaire and semi-structured interview were used as research tools. The data collected through questionnaire were analyzed descriptively and thematically. From the analysis of data and interpretations of the results, it was found that the main challenges they faced were complex rules of grammar,comprehension, vocabulary, pronunciation and spelling while learning English language. Similarly, mother tongue interference was found in pronunciation of English sound /ᵗ/, /ᶿ/, and /ᵈ/. The study consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals withbackgroundofthe study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions,significance of the study, delimitations of the study and the operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of the theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework of the study. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the study which includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure of the collected data descriptively and using sample statistical tool i.e. percentage. Similarly, the fifth chapter presents the findings based on the analysis and interpretation of the data, including conclusion derived from the findings and recommendations in policy related, practice related and further research related level. This chapter is also followed by references and appendices.Item Deixis System in Kham Magar and English(Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2011) Gharti Magar, Tika BahadurThe study entitled 'Deixis System in Kham Magar and English' has been carried out to find out Kham person, time and place deictic expressions and also to compare them with those of English. I used both primary and secondary sources of data. I selected fifty native speaker of Kham as sampling population using purposive sampling procedure. An interview schedule was prepared as a tool of data collection. English deictic expressions were taken from secondary sources. The data were analyzed, interpreted and presented descriptively and statistically using tables and illustrations. The major findings of this research clarify that Kham has a complex deixis system due to the existence of number distinction, case distinction, proximal and distal distinction, affixation etc. English third person deictic expressions have different terms he, she and it to refer to the human and non-human whereas Kham has the same terms āu and nau. And, there is proximal and distal distinction in Kham third person deictic expressions which is not found in English. In English second person deictic expressions, you is used for singular and plural numbers but in Kham na and je are used. Regarding English place deictic expressions, there is proximal, distal and neutral distinction in contrast, proximal, intermediate, distal and neutral distinction is found in Kham. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter includes introduction of the study which consists of general background, multilingual scenario of Nepal, contrastive analysis, pragmatics, introduction of deixis, literature review, significant of the study, objective of the study. The second chapter deals with methodology that consists of sources of data, sampling procedure, research tool, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Third chapter mentions analysis, interpretation and presentation of the collected data along with comparison of Kham and English deixis systems. The fourth chapter includes the findings and recommendation.Item English Code-mixing in Magar Language in Day to Day Communication(Department of English Education, 2014) Thapa, Bam BahadurThe thesis entitled "English Code-mixing in Magar Language in Day to Day Communication "is an attempt of the researcher to find out the English Mixed words in the Magar language. To achieve the objective of the study only the primary data were not sufficient, so I utilized secondary data too. In this study sixty native speakers of the Magar language were selected from Pawan Nagar VDC in Dang district. In sample population there were three types of native speakers, i.e., illiterate, literate and educated. To meet the objectives of my research I used stratified random sampling procedure to elicit required data. The interview schedule in the form of questionnaire was developed as a research tool for both literate and illiterate informants. The main tools for data collection were structured interview schedule and questionnaires in this survey research. Pawan Nagar VDC of Dang district was selected to collect data and collected data were analyzed, interpreted and presented descriptively and comparatively with the help of Tables and illustration. In this research, I found mixed English words in greater numbers, e.g. radio, mobile, computer, school, boarding help, bus etc. On the other hand, educated people mixed English words greater than illiterate and literate. Through the help of interview and questionnaires informants I found some reasons to mix English words in the Magar language in day to day communication. Some major reasons were less number of speakers, lack of language transmission to young generation, migration to urban areas, going to foreign countries for job and education, choice of topics and fashion of using English words. This thesis comprises five chapters: Introduction, Review of Related Literature and Conceptual framework, Methods and Procedures of the Study, Results and Discussion and Findings conclusions and Implications. The first chapter deals with the general background, statement of the problems, rationale of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of the related literature, implications of the review for the study, theoretical framework and conceptual framework. The third chapter includes the design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis interpretation procedures. The fourth chapter contains the results and discussion/interpretation and the last chapter includes the summary, conclusions and pedagogical implications in policy level and practice level and suggests some further research.Item Making, accepting and declining offers in Magar and English(Department of English Education, 2010) Ale, GirijaThis research entitled ‘Making, accepting and declining offers in Magar and English’ has attempted to identify the forms of making, accepting and declining offers used by Magar native speakers and to compare them with the forms used by English native speakers on the basis of formality level. Both primary and secondary sources of data had been utilized. The Magar native speakers were sampling population for primary sources of data while previously conducted research and some authentic books such as Blundell et al. (1982), Matreyek (1983) were the secondary source of data. The samples were selected through snow-ball sampling procedure and they were provided questionnaires. This research found out that the Magar native speakers preferred to use informal and neutral exponents for making, accepting and declining offers in comparison to the English native speakers. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background and review of related literature. The second chapter includes methodology which was put into practice while collecting data. It includes sources of data, sampling procedure, tool and process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of collected data. Based on those analysed and interpreted data, some findings and recommendations are provided in the fourth chapter. Additional information is placed in appendices at last.Item A Semantic Analysis of Magar and English Verbs(Department of English Education, 2015) Magar, Devaki KumariThe thesis entitled ‘A Semantic Analysis of English and Magar Verbs’ attempts to analyze some English and Magar Verbs in terms of their meaning.The main purpose of this study wasto analyze English and Magar Verbs mainly on the basis of convergence and divergence,one to one correlation semantic overlapping of meaning. To accomplish the objectives of the study Magar native speakers were taken as the main informants for eliciting the data.They were selected using non-random judgmental sampling procedure. The verbs were collected through the structured interview with forty-six Magarnative speakers from different Siddipur and Basaha VDCs of Udayapur district.The English and Magar Verbs had been described in context.Similarly, the researcher selected forty-six Magar native speakers as respondents from different occupational background like; farmers,socialworkers and housewives. The main findings of this study were that there we inherent differences in semantic systems of English and Magar Verbs. This thesis has been divided into five chapters. Chapter one comprises background of the topic, statement of the problem, objectives of the study,research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter includes the review of the related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature,implication of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter covers all the areas of methodology. Likewise, the forth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of results and the fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations followed by references and appendices.Item A Study on Magar, Nepali and English Household Terms(Department of English Education, 2009) Sijali, Keshab KumarThe present thesis entitled "A STUDY ON MAGAR, NEPALI AND ENGLISH HOUSEHOLD TERMS" aims at comparing and contrasting the household terms used in the English, Magar and Nepali languages. The researcher collected data from both primary and secondary sources. The sample population of the study consisted of 40 Magar native speakers to whom the questionnaires were distributed. He consulted the standard Nepali and English dictionaries to collect the data from Nepali and English. The data were analyzed in order to find out the similarities and differences. The major findings of this study are : Almost all the household terms in each language belong to colloquial in terms of their stylistic features. The Magar language is richer in its variation in comparison to English and Nepali because most of the Magar household terms are realized differently due to geographical distribution. The English language has the least number of household terms in comparison to Magar and Nepali because it has many neutral terms to refer them. The study consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction. It consists of general background, review of the related literatures, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definitions of the specific terms. Chapter two deals with methodology, i.e how the research was carried out. It includes sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, research tools, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three deals with analysis and interpretation of the data. It comprises correlation, comparison and main areas of differences of the household terms used in English, Magar and Nepali. Chapter four incorporates findings and recommendations. On the basis of the analyzed data some findings have been listed, and, in turn, on the basis of these findings some recommendations have been made.