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Item Case System in English, Nepali and Doteli(Department of English Education, 2010) Bhandari, Ram BahadurThe present thesis entitled "Case Stystem in English. Nepali and Doteli" hasbeen conducted in order to find out the cases in Doteli and to find outsimilaritiesand differences between Doteli, Nepali and English cases. I usedboth primary and secondary sources of data in orderto conduct the research.The sampled population for the primary data were eighty native speakers of theDoteli dialect who were selected using judgemental sampling procedure. Aquestionnaire was prepared as a tool of data collection. English and Nepali casesystemswere taken from secondary sources. The data were taken fromsecondary sources. The data were analyzed, interpreted and presenteddescriptively and statistically by using by tables and illustrations. The majorfindings of this research clarify that common cases with English and Nepaliwere found in Doteli dialect as agentive, dativefactitive, instrumental, locative,objective, generative commutative ablative and goal, the main case markers inDoteli dialect are the post positions. Natural force is also taken as aninstrumental in the Doteli dialect. Both animate beings and inanimate things aretreated as source in the Doteli dialects. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with theintroduction of the study. It consists ofdefinitions of language, multilingualsetting of Nepal, introduction to theDotelidialect,cases in the NepaliLanguage,contrastive analysis, introduction tocases, literature review,objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second chapter dealswith the methodology that consists of sources of data, sampling procedure,research tool, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The thirdchapter is the body of the thesis. It is concerned with analysis, interpretationand presentation of the collected data along with comparison of English,NepaliandDotelicasessystems. The fourth chapter includes the findings andrecommendations of the research work.Item CaseSystem in Englishand Bajhangi(Central Department of Education, 2011) Joshi, Dev RajThisthesis entitled "CaseSystem in Englishand Bajhangi" is thefirst research work on the 'Case System of Bajhangi'. This research has been conducted inorder to find out the cases in Bajhangiand to find outsimilarities anddifferences between Bajhangi and English cases. The researcher collected datafrom both primary and secondary sourcestoconduct the research. The samplepopulationwaseighty native speakers of the Bajhangi dialect,whowereselected using judgemental/ purposive sampling procedure. A questionnairewas used as atoolfordata collection.Englishcases were taken from secondarysources. The datawere analyzed, interpreted and presented descriptively byusing tables and illustrations. The major findings of this research clarify thatBajhangi has a complex case system. This researchshows that common casesin EnglishandBajhangiarenominative,objective, instrumental, locative,possessive, dative,comitative, vocative and temporal.Themain case markersinBajhangi dialectare the post-positions.Naturalforce is also taken as aninstrumentin theBajhangidialect. Bajhangi has more number of casemarkersthan English but the Bajhangi casemarkersareflexiblein nature than Englishcasemarkers. Some casemarkers in Bajhangi are overused. Thisthesis consistsof four chapters. The first chapter deals with theintroduction of the study. The introduction consists ofdefinitionsof language,importance oftheEnglish language,multilingual setting of Nepal, introductionto cases,cases in English and Nepali languages, contrastive analysis, literaturereview, objectives of the study and significance ofthe study. The secondchapter deals with the methodologywhich in turnconsists of sources of data,samplingprocedure,research tool, process of data collection and limitations ofthe study. The third chapter is the core of the thesis. It is concerned with theanalysisof thedata along with comparison of Englishand Bajhangi casesystems. The forth chapter deals with the findingsand pedagogical implicationsof thestudy. Thischapter is also followed by references and appendicesItem A Comparative Study in the Use of Present continuous Tense and past Continuous Tense in English and Nepali by the Students of Grade-8(Department of English Education, 2007) K.C., AgniThe research entitled “A Comparative Study in the Use ofPresent Continuous Tense and Past Continuous Tense in English andNepali by the Students of Grade-8” is an attempt to compare thegovernment-aided and non-governmental schools performance in theuse ofpresent continuous Tense and past continuous tense. In order todo so the researcher collected data form 8 th graders of KathmanduDistrict. The sample population consisted of 120 students who wereselected by simple random sampling method. Five types of test itemswere designed to test and compare their performance in presentcontinuous tense and past continuous tense. For the analysis and interpretation of data the papers werechecked and scores were given. The scores obtained by the studentswere counted, tabulated and interpreted employing quantitative anddescriptive method. Quantitative method includes simple statisticaltools of percentage and descriptive method includes simpleinterpretation and explanation of the data computed. The research findings in total show that the students were moreproficient in present continuous tense than the past continuous tense.On the other hand, the students of non-governmental schoolsperformance were found far better than the performance of thestudents of the government-aided schools. The study consists of four chapters, which are given below.Chapter one deals with the introduction. It consists of the general background of the study, introduction and importance ofEnglish language, introduction and importance of Nepali language,tense and aspect system in English and Nepali language, literaturereview, objectives of the study, and significance of the study. Chapter two describes the methodology applied in order to carryout this research. It encompasses sources of data, population of thestudy, sampling procedure, research tools for data collection and thelimitation of the study. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the data.The data are analyzed and interpreted using the statistical tools liketables and percentage. Chapter four incorporates findings and recommendations of thestudy. Based on the analysis and interpretation, some significantfindings are enlisted. Based on these findings and the experience ofthe researcher while conducting the research, some recommendationsfor pedagogical implications and some recommendations for furtherresearches are made. References and appendices follow this chapter.Item English and Nepali Reading Speed of Tharu Students(Department of English Education, 2007) Paudel, SumanThis research work is an attempt to find out and compare the readingspeed of Tharustudentsof secondary level of Dang district in theEnglishand Nepali languages. To carry out this researchwork the researcher prepared test items.Then a pilot test wasadministered to a numberof 20students, from LinconSchool and Shuvatara School assuming the best readers available inKathmandu valley,to finalizethetest materials for data collection. All together 60 students fromprivateand governmentaidedschools ofDang district were taken for the study. The test was administered to collectthe data. After the administration of the test, the answer sheets of thestudents were collected and analyzed, and then their reading speed wascompared. The result of the study shows that theTharustudents’ English readingspeed is better than that of Nepali. Theiraverage reading speed in Englishwas 102.5 w/m where as the average reading speed in Nepali was 94 w/m.Most of the students from Nepali medium schools have poor reading speed.But the majority of the students from English medium schools have betterreading speed in both English and Nepali language. This study has been divided into four different chapters: Introduction,Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation, and Findings andRecommendations. The first chapter is the introduction of the study whichincludes background of thestudy, objectivesof the study, significance of thestudyand review of related literature.Similarly, the second chapter comprises the sources of data,samplingprocedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and thelimitations of the study. The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data.In this chapter, thecollected data havebeen analyzedboth descriptively andstatistically to fulfill theobjectives of the study. Finally, the fourth chapter includes the findings and some pedagogicalrecommendations.Item Noun Phrase Structure in English Andnepali: A Comparative Study(Faculty of Education, 2006) Khadka, Purna Bahadurnot availableItem Perspective on the Use of Nepali Language in English Classroom(Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University Sukuna Multiple Campus KoshiHaraincha, Morang, 2016) Bhattarai, TanujaThe present research study entitled Perspective on the Use of Nepali Language in English Classroom is an attempt to analyze the perspective of teachers and students. While undergoing the research, the researcher sampled four secondary (community) school of Morang district. Twenty students and ten teachers were selected from secondary levels of community school. The principal objectives of this study are to explore views towards the use of Nepali language in English classroom, to explore the reasons of using Nepali language in English classroom and to suggest some pedagogical implications. The methodology employed to carry out this study was the survey research based on qualitative and quantitative (mixed) method. This research has been produced by the use of primary and secondary sources. The survey tools used in this study were observation and questionnaire and the data were analyzed and interpreted descriptively. It was found that both learners and teachers need of the using Nepali language in English classroom and also found that background of student, exposure of English language influence of mother tongue play vital role using Nepali in English classroom. It contains five main chapters. The first chapter deals with background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions significance of the study delimitations of the study, definition of the terms used. The second chapter deals with the review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, theoretical / conceptual, frame work. The third chapter deals with design and method of study population sample and sampling strategy, study site, sources of data, collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of result, summary of findings. The chapter five deals with conclusion, recommendation policy & practice related, further research related. The final section of the study includes the references and appendices.Item Pronominals in English, Nepali and Newar(Department of English Education, 2009) Manandhar, SunitaThe present study entiled “Pronominals in English, Nepali and Newar” was an attempt tofind out Newar pronominals in relation to English and Nepali. Secondly, this researchendeavouredto compare and contrast Newar pronominals with those of the English andNepali languages. The researcher collected the data from both primary and secondarysources to accomplish the task. The primary sources of the data were native speakers ofNewar language from Kirtipur Municipality. Different books, journals, theses, websitewere the secondary sources of the data. The study place was selected throughjudgemental sampling whereas the study population, i.e. 80 informants were selectedusing snowball sampling. Interview and questionnaire were used as research tools fordata collection.The interview research tool was used for illiterate people andquestionnaire was used for literate ones.The collected data were analyzed and interpretedthrough the tabulation. After studying the data, the findings were drawn. The mainfindings of the present study are: Newar pronominal system is the most complex incomparison to English and Nepali due to the presence of the affixation, pluralization andalternatives. All the three languages have distinct pronominals but in comparison toEnglish and Nepali, the Newar language has more number of pronominals. The nasalizedsounds were found when the singular pronominals are pluralized. Newar personal,reflexive and possessive pronouns are categorized under three persons: 1 .There is the existence of inclusive and exclusive pronouns in plural number of 1 personpersonal, reflexive and possessive pronouns. It is also found out that there is the existenceof honorificand non-honorific system in 2 nd and 3 rd person personal, reflexive andpossessive pronouns. This thesis consists of four chapters: introduction, methodology, analysis andinterpretation and findings and recommendations.The first chapter deals with a briefintroductory survey of the related area of the study including general background,literature review, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter includes st , 2 nd and 3 st rd the methodology: sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools fordata collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. Similarly, chapterthree deals with analysis and interpretation of the data and chapter four incorporatesfindings, recommendations and pedagogical implications of the study.Item A Study on Code-Mixing in the Nepali Language in Super Markets(Department of English Education, 2006) Lamichhane, ArjunThis dissertation is basically a study of English code mixing inbusinesstransactions. The main objectives of the study are to find out themixed English wordsin Nepali discoursesin supermarketsandto find outthe age-wise and sex-wise trend of mixing English words insupermarkets. The sample population consists of those participantsinvolved in 100 different speech events in supermarkets. Altogether, theresearcher collected data from ten different business complexes. Theoverall study comes to an end that code mixing is an established featurein supermarkets. Word level mixing has been seen as the highestfrequency in all supermarkets. The researcher focuses on the age-wiseand sex-wise mixingof English words in theNepali conversations. Noresearch yet has been carried out in this area to see the features ofEnglish/Nepali code mixing. This thesis contains altogether four chapters. Chapter Onedealswith the introduction. It consists of general background, code switchingand code mixing, terminological issues, types of code switching,difference between code switching and code mixing, reasons for codemixing and code switching, review of related literature, objectives of thestudy, significance of the study and definition of specific terms. ChapterTwodeals with methodology. It encompassessources ofdata, population of the study, sample population, tools for data collection,process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter Three consists of analysis and interpretation of therequired data. It consists of four parts. Part one deals with the descriptionof English and Nepali words; part two deals with the analysis andinterpretation of the most frequently mixedwords,and the third part deals viii with the analysis and interpretation of the age-wise trends of mixingEnglish words and the last part deals with the sex-wise trends of mixingEnglish words. The data are analyzed on the basis of percentageandtheyare presented on the table. Chapter Four presents the summary of findings, pedagogicalimplications and recommendations. The study reveals that the greatest andtheleast number of words ofboth the languages occurred according to the situation, mode of thespeaker, their performance level, age and sex. Mostly the researcherfound the word level switching, i.e. code mixing rather than sentencelevel switching,i.e. code switching in supermarkets.Item Thanking and Congratulating in English and Nepali(Department of English Education, 2009) Dhakal, ArjunThis study aimed to identify and compare the exponents of Expressing thanks and congratulations used by the native English and Nepali speakers. For this study, the researcher took sample population from British Council and British Embassy consisting of 20 native English and 60 native Nepali speakers from the Department of the Nepali Education, Faculty of Education. The study was entirely based on the primary data, i.e. the responses from the native English and Nepali speakers through questionnaire distributed to them. The responses given by them were coded for analysis and interpretation. On the basis of analysis and interpretation, the researcher came to the conclusion that the native English speakers were more formal than their Nepali counterparts while expressing thanks and congratulations whereas Nepali native speakers used temperate forms than the native English speakers while expressing the under taken exponents. Both native English and Nepali speakers were found to be using temperate forms. The study is divided into four chapters. Chapter one is an introductory chapter. It includes general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology applied to carry out the research under which sources of data, sampling procedure tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study are presented. Chapter three presents the analysis and interpretation of the data, in this section both statistical as well as descriptive approaches are used. Chapter four incorporates findings and recommendations of the research. The references and appendices form the concluding part of the thesis.