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Item Performance in the English Language: Perception of Teachers and Students(Department of English Education, 2008) Budhathoki, Lok BahadurThe present thesis entitled'Performance in the English Language: Perception ofTeachers and Students'aims to find out the possible causes of poor performance bystudents. For this purpose, eighty students, (10 th graders) and four English subjectteachersof Bardiya District were selected through simple random and non-randomsampling procedure. The questionnaires were the tools for collecting primary data. Thedata were analyzed and interpreted statistically and descriptively. After analyzing thedata, themain findings of the research have shown that a single classroom consists ofabove 100 students, which is inconvenient for the students to learn English. Similarly,weak students were not paid attention for motivation and encouragement. Teachers usedonlyteacher centered techniques so that students' participation is quite poor. Besides,lack of teaching-learning materials was also found to be a dominant cause. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces the study with its generalbackground showing light on English language teaching, importance of English language,theories of language learning and teaching, language acquisition and learning, challengesof teaching and learning English language in Nepal and factors affecting languagelearning. It also incorporates review of the related literature, objectives and significanceof the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology of the study. It comprises source ofdata, sampling procedure, tools and process of data collection and limitation of the study.Similarly, chapter three presents the analysis and interpretations of the data. Data wereanalyzed by using different tables and their descriptions. Finally, chapter four discussesthe findings of the study. On the basis of findings pedagogical implications(recommendations) have been suggested. References and appendices present additionalinformation about the research work.Item Revolt Against Rationalism in Lady Chatterley's Lover(Department of English, 2006) Das, Janak RajSince the time of the Greek philosopher Plato, the Western intellectuals have relied on logos or the ‘word’ for ultimate knowledge. They have heavily believed in reason as the source of knowledge. The reasoning has generally been privileged over emotion, and feeling. This privileging has sometimes been challenged by intellectual within western tradition. D.H. Lawrence was the most passionate and vocal writer to do so in the modern times. D.H. Lawrence, inLady Chatterley's Lover, challenges rationalism. He presents the bleak and degraded picture of the western civilization which tends to privilege mind over body. This study traces the development of rationalism in the western tradition and Lawrence's resistance to it. It also examines modern theoretical development and notes their convergence with Lawrence's ideas. It concludes with a claim that the awareness of the body can only emancipate modern people from mechanistic world wrought by mind.