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Item Effectiveness of Folktales in Teachingreading Comprehension(Faculty of Education, 2008) Adhikari, Kamal PrasadThe present thesis entitled "Effectiveness of Folktales in Teaching Reading Comprehension" aims at finding out effectiveness offolktale as a teaching material in reading comprehension. The researcherhimself was involved in the experimental teaching for the purpose ofcarrying out the research. The tests were developed for the collection ofdata. The researcher collected data from the sampled population offortystudents of grade nine of a private school. The total students were given apre-test in order to test their reading comprehension ability. On the basisof the pre-test result, the students were divided into two groups based onodd and even ranking of their individual scores.Both the groups weretaught for about a month keeping in different class. Group A was taughtonly folktales whereasGroup B was taught the materials from the textbook of grade nine. Then, result of the two tests was compared tofind outthe effectiveness of folktales in teaching reading comprehension. It was found that folktale as a teaching material has relatively abetter impact in teaching reading comprehension. The present thesis has been divided into four chapters. Chapter oneis an introduction to the research. It includes the general background,objectives of the study, the literature review and significance of the study. Chapter two includes the methodology adopted to carry out theresearch. In other words, it includes the sources of data, population of thestudy, sampling procedure, tools and process of data collection andlimitations of the study. Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of data.Chapter four consists of the findings and recommendationsof the study.This chapter is followed by references and appendices.Item Effectiveness of Visual Materials in Reading Comprehension(Department of English Education, 2010) Dawadi, HarisaranThe main objective of this studywasfindoutthe effectiveness of visual materials in reading comprehension.Shree Gyan Jyoti HigherSecondarySchool,Gorkha was selected purposive for data collection. Sixty studentsstudying in grade ix were the primary source,asthe primary data for thestudywasobtainedby administering teststothem. At theentry point, a pre-test was administered. Then, the students were divided into two groups onthe basisof result of the pre-test to maintain equal level of proficiency ofboth the groups and were termed as‘controlled’ and ‘experimental’groups.Both the groups were taught the selected items for the specified time.Butthecontrolledgroupwas taughtwithoutusingvisualmaterials. At the end ofthe classroom teaching, a post-test was administered. The obtained data werecompared,analyzedand interpreted todeterminethe effectiveness of visualmaterials.Bythis study itwasfound that thevisual materials inEnglishreading comprehension, since the experimentalgrouphad performed betterin all the areas in pots-test. Thethesiscomprises four chapters. Chapter one deals with the introductionof teaching visualmaterialswith theshorthistory of theiruse in teaching theEnglish language in Nepal. It alsoincludes the review of therelatedliterature, objectives of the study andsignificanceof the study.Chaptertwodealswith the sources of data, population and sampling procedure, processof data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter is devotedto the interpretation and analysis of the data collected. To analyzethedata,the average scores were tabulated and the differencebetween pre-test andpost-test was calculated in terms ofaverage scores and percentage.Theexperimental(group 'B')wastaught using visual materials got its averagescores increased in seen text, unseen text, paraorthographic text and otherreading text by 66%, 60.66%, 57.50% and 62.70% respectively in the posttest whereas the controlled group got its average scores increased in thesame areas by 14.78, 16.17, 26.92 and 21.05 percent respectively in theposttest. It shows that the progress rate of experimental group was higher inall areas.Finally,chapter four deals with the findings and recommendationsof the study. The findings have been outlined on the basis of the analysis andinterpretation of the data, and appropriate recommendations and pedagogicalimplications have been presented.Item The Effectiveness of Visualization in Reading Comprehension(Faculty of English Education, 2011) Thapa Magar, Tarka Bahadurhe thesis entitled 'The Effectiveness of Visualization in Reading Comprehension’is an attempt to find out whether visualization affects in reading comprehension or not. The aim of this research was to find out the significant difference of visualizers and non-visualizers in reading comprehension using visualization techniques.To meet the objective of this research study, sixty students of grade nine from Shree Adarsha Higher Secondary School Ghumnekhali, Dailekh,were selected for research. Twenty-five questions including short answers-question,fill in the blank space,true-false, tick the best alternative and matching items were used to collect the data.Students were also asked to draw pictures, mime,and play drama to check if they visualized or not.Collected data from pretest and post-test were analyzed and tabulated using formula of mean, standard deviation,variance and 't' test.In the pretest, there was no significant difference between two groups but when the researcher administered post-test at the end of research study, the researcher found significant difference between two groups. This thesis is divided into four chapters: Introduction,Methodology, Analysis and interpretation of the data and Findings and recommendations. The first chapter deals with general background,review of the related literature,objectives of the study significance of the study and definition of the specific terms.The second chapter contains theme thodology. It includes source of data,sampling procedure,tools for data collection,process of data collection and the limitations of the study.The third chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of data collected.The final chapter includes findings and recommendations of the study.In this chapter,pedagogical implications have also been recommended for the further study and better improvement for reading comprehension in any level.Item Proficiency in Reading Comprehension of Grade Viii Students of Syangja District(2012) Ghimire, Govinda PrasadThis thesis entitled 'Proficiency in Reading Comprehension of Grade VIII Students of Syangja District' is an effort to find out the reading proficiency of the students of grade VIII studying in various schools of Syangja district. It aims to identify the students' ability to comprehend written text and to compare their results on the basis of different variables like location, school, sex, text type and test item. The researcher selected eight government schools located in urban and rural area of the district to carry out the research. The sample population for the study was eighty students representing five boys and five girls from each of the selected schools. A test consisting of three types of reading texts, viz. seen, unseen and cloze was designed and administered to the students for collecting the data. The data obtained from the students through the test have been analyzed and interpreted using simple statistical tools such as average and percentage along with the help of tables and diagrams. The study shows that the overall reading proficiency of the students of Syangja district is 61.25% and comparatively, the proficiency in comprehending written texts is found higher in students of the schools located in rural area of the district than in the students of the schools located in urban area. This thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter One deals with general background of the study, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. Chapter Two deals with the research methodology, data gathering procedures and limitations of the study. Chapter Three includes analysis and interpretation of the collected data. In this chapter various tables and diagrams have been used to analyze and interpret the data as clearly as possible. Chapter Four consists of major findings and recommendations on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of the collected data. Finally, Chapter Four is followed by the references and appendices.Item Reading Comprehension Ability of Danuwar Students(Department of English Education, 2011) Nepal, DineshThis research entitled ‘Reading Comprehension Ability of Danuwar Students’attempted to find out the reading comprehension ability of Danuwar students. Inorder to do so I collected the data from the Danuwar students studying in grade ten in five different schools of Kavrepalanchok district. Only sixty sample students were selected. Twelve students from each school were selected through nonrandom sampling procedure and both the seen and the unseen texts were used in the test. Seen text was selected from the English text book of grade ten and unseen test item was selected from outside the course book to find out the reading comprehension ability of students. Similarly, a questionnaire was given and test items were administered and raw score of the students was analyzed and interpreted using the statistical tools. This study found the total reading comprehension of the students was 63%. The average reading comprehension ability of the students in the seen and the unseen text was 71.61% and 54.39%respectively.This thesis comprises four chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction.It consists of general background, language skills, defining reading, types of reading,introduction about Danuwar people, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted for the study. It consists of the sources of data, sampling procedure, and tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study.Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretation of data. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive approach and simple statistical tools. Chapter four presents the findings and recommendations. Recommendation sare made on the basis of findings.Item Reading Comprehension of Grade Ten Students(Department of English Education, 2009) Kattel, Gopal ChandraThis study has been carried out as an attempt to find out the exact readingComprehension of the grade ten students of Sindhupalchok District. For thestudy, 5 higher secondary schools of different locations were selected. Carefulattention was paid to select the schools. The students of grade 10 in theacademic year 2065 formed the population of the study. In the research, thetool consisted of only objective and short answer questions. The text includedin the test was an unseen passage. The studywas carried out to a samplepopulation of 100 students of grade ten. The researcher selected 20 studentswith equal number of boys and girls from each of the five schools by stratifiedrandom sampling method. The average reading comprehension of the gradetenstudents was satisfactory as they could comprehend 38.65 percentage. Anotherinteresting fact found out was that the Nepalese male students are better readersthan the female students by 1.5 percent more. The study consists of fourchapters and each chapter presents an account of the study from different sidesof the study. The first chapter of the study under the heading 'Introduction' incorporatesGeneral Background, Use of Reading Skills in Language Learning, Reading inthe ELT Context of Nepal, Significance and Objective of the Study, LiteratureReview and Definitions of Terms.The second chapter deals with themethodology adopted to carryout the research work which includes Sources ofData, Population of the Study and The School Sample, Process ofDataCollection, and Limitations of the Study. In the third chapter analysis andinterpretation of the collected data has been made in detail. For objectivity andaccuracy of the data analysis, statistical tools like percentage, median, standarddeviation, mode and average have been brought into practice. The fourthchapter of the study presents the findings obtained through the analysis of dataand some recommendations have been made with the hope that they will be ofvalue to pedagogical implication. Thefinal part of this thesis includes thereference.Item Reading Comprehension of Poetry and Prose by B. Ed. Students(Department of English Education, 2008) Bhandari, Prem PrasadThe title of the study is "Reading Comprehension of Poetry and Prose by B. Ed. Students" The main purposes of the study were to find out the ability of B. Ed. students studying at various campuses of Kailali district to understand the literary texts and to find out the factors that hamper to understand the texts. For that 100 students were taken from the selected five campuses to accomplish the study. The campuses and the students were selected using simple random sampling procedures and 10 English teachers of B. Ed. were selected using judgemental sampling procedure. Two poems and two prose texts were selected and test items were developed to measure the reading comprehension of students and another two sets of questionnaires were also developed to find the causes of difficulty. Most of the students of B. Ed. are found better in prose texts than in poetry. The students' performance in matching items, multiple choices and true-false items is better than the performance in short comprehension questions, both in poetry and prose texts. Vocabularies and sentence structures are considered as the prime factors of difficulty in both poetry and prose texts. Matching items are found better in poetry but true false items are found better in prose texts. The thesis has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the background of language and literature and literature review. The second chapter deals with the methodology that was used in the study. Third chapter is concerned with the presentation, analysis and interpretation of the data and the last chapter deals with the findings and suggestions of the study.Item Reading Speed and Comprehension of Grade Ten Students(Faculty of English Education, 2010) Poudyal, LekhnathThe thesis entitled ‘Reading Comprehension and Speed of Grade Ten Students’ has been prepared to find out the reading comprehension and speed of the students of the grade ten who are studying in different private and government aided schools of Morang district. It shows the comparison among the students of different secondary schools, comparison between private and government schools. To conduct the research, the researcher took the sample students studying in grade ten of Morang district. Four schools (two Private and two government aided) were selected and twenty students from each school were taken for the purpose of data collection. Only written script in objective tests i.e. Multiple choice, True/False, Matching and Completion items were given to the students to collect data. After conducting the test, their answers were checked, recorded and analyzed on the basis of general standard of reading comprehension and speed. The findings show that the students of grade ten of Morang district can comprehend a seen passage better than an unseen passage. Similarly, they have better reading speed on seen text than that of unseen text. According to the present research, the students of private school have better reading comprehensibility and speed than the students of government school. The first chapter of this thesis consists of general background which includes a short description of reading comprehension and speed, reading as skills, types of reading, importance of reading, components of reading and approaches to reading. Similarly, it also includes the review of the related literature, the objectives of the study, significance of the research and limitations of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the research under which the sources of data collection, sampling procedures, the tools for the data collection, piloting test items, process of data collection and limitations of the study are mentioned. Similarly, the third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data obtained by applying simple statistical means. The fourth chapter deals with findings and recommendations based on the research.Item Role of Task-Based Technique in Teaching Reading Comprehension(Faculty of English Education, 2010) Bam, KalamThe present study entitled 'Role of Task-Based Technique in Teaching Readingcomprehension'was carried out with the objectivesto find out the effectiveness oftask-based technique in teaching reading comprehension and tosuggest somepedagogical implications. This was the experimental type of research.For thispurpose, sixty students of Rastriya Navajagrit Higher Secondary School of Kailalidistrict were taken as sample population.The students were divided into two equalgroups–experimental and control group.The pre–test score was taken as a basisand they were grouped on the basis of their odd–even rankingprocess.The controlgroup was taught using traditionalmethod or teacher-centered method whereasthe experimental group was taught using task-based technique.At the end of 24lessonplans, a post–test was taken and the data were analyzed and interpreted.Theresultshowed that experimental group performedbetterthan the control groupin all eight test items. This thesis consists of four chapters.Chapter one includes introduction in whichthe thesis throws light on language, task-based language teaching,readingcomprehension, review of related literature,objectives of the study andsignificance of the study.Chapter two gives an account of methodology used inthe present study.It includes sources of data,sample population and samplingprocedure, tools for datacollection,process of datacollection andlimitations ofthe study.Chapter three is all about analysis and interpretation of obtained data.The tables have been used to interpret the data.Chapter four includes findingsandpedagogical implications have been provided at the end.Item Strategies used for regarding comprehension by grade eight students(Department of English Education, 2023) Yadav, BechanThis thesis entitled “Strategies Used for Reading Comprehension by Grade Eight Students” is an attempt to identify the strategies adopted by grade eight students in reading comprehension. The researcher collected data from the students of five secondary schools of Koshi rural municipality of Sunsari district. The researcher used survey research design. The total sample population of the study consisted of 50 students and five sample teachers selected from the five different schools. The researcher selected ten students from each school. The questionnaire was the major tool for the data collection. The researcher spent two days in each school for collecting the data. Students’ responses were collected in the first day and teachers’ responses were collected in the second day. This study revealed that there are varieties of strategies being implemented by the learners for reading comprehension. Some of the most frequently used strategies are asking teachers to translate English sentences into Nepali, consulting monolingual dictionary, reading English newspapers, consulting with peer, finding synonyms and antonyms, skimming and scanning. Similarly, most frequently implemented strategies for reading comprehension were predicting the meaning from the context, dividing the chapter into three stages like pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading stages, making pair discussion, connecting the new words with already learnt ones. Furthermore, the students adopted loud and silent reading strategies as well as paraphrasing, summarizing, elaborating, drawing conclusion. The students frequently asked the teachers to translate the text into Nepali equivalents for reading comprehension. This study consists of five chapters. Chapter one consists of the introduction, general background, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research question, significance and delimitation of the study. Chapter two consist review of related literature, their implications and theoretical framework. Chapter three consist of design of the study, source of data, population sample and sampling procedures, data collection procedures. Chapter four consists of results and discussion. This chapter includes the results of the study along with discussion of data. These data were analyzed and tabulated on the basis of the students’ and teachers’ responses. Chapter five consists of the summary, conclusion, and pedagogical implications of the study. The references and appendices are the conducting parts of the study.Item A Study on the Effectiveness of Teachers' Guide of Grade Nine English in Teaching Reading Comprehension(Department of English Education, 2007) Sharma, Bishwo RajThis study aims at finding out the effectiveness of Teachers' Guide inteaching Reading Comprehension of grade nine English textbook. Forcarrying out the research forty students of grade nine of a governmentschool in Kathmandu district were taken as the sample population. A testpaper was prepared and administered to the students. Before administeringthe test for experiment a pilot test was done for the validity and reliability ofthe test paper. A pre-test was given to them in order to test their readingcomprehension ability. On the basis of the pre-test result the students weredivided into two groups based on odd-even ranking of the individualstudent's scores of the pre-test. Both the groups were taught for about amonth keeping in different classes. Group A was named experimental group and was taught using theteachers' guide and group B, non-experimental or controlled group, wastaught without using it in a usual way. Both the groups were taught the sameteaching items, using the same medium of instruction and instructionalmaterials side by side in two different time periods. For teaching differenttypes of reading comprehension texts, such as: stories, essays, drama,newspaper articles, notices, poems, were selected from the grade nineEnglish textbook. Twenty-four lesson plans were prepared but the lessonplans were slightly different for each group. Since the lesson plans for groupA were based on the instruction in the Teachers' Guide, necessaryinstructional materials were prepared and demonstrated in the class. At the end of the experimental teaching both the groups were givenpost-test at the same time period in the classroomand the result of both thetests (i.e. pre-test and post-test) were compared to determine theeffectiveness of the Teachers' Guide in teaching reading comprehension atgrade nine. The result shows that the use of Teachers' Guide is very mucheffective andbeneficial for the teachers teaching English at this level.This thesis consists of four chapters: The first chapter deals with the general background of the study. Itincludes the importance of the English language, a brief history of ELT inNepal, the role of teaching materials in teaching English, use of teachers'guide in Nepal and a brief account of secondary level English curriculumand teachers guide, a brief account of reading skill and readingcomprehension. It also consists of the review of related literature objectivesof the study and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the study.It includes sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure,tools and process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of the dataobtained. The data have been interpreted under two main headings:i) Text-based Analysis andii) Holistic Analysis The findings and recommendations have been presented in the lastchapter i.e. chapter four. Finally, the recommendations have also beenmade.Item Teaching Reading Comprehension by Trained and Untrained Teachers(Department of English Education, 2010) Silwal, Raj KumarIn the present study entitled 'Techniques of Teaching Reading Comprehension by Trained and Untrained Teachers', I have attempted to find out the techniques used by trained and untrained teachers to teach reading comprehension in grade seven. This study was carried out using both primary and secondary sources of data. For primary data, I took the sample of ten trained and ten untrained teachers teaching in grade seven. The teachers were from ten schools of Chitwan district. Two types of tools were used for data collection: in-depth observation forms and observation checklist forms. Eighty classes of the English teachers were observed. Then, the data were tabulated and compared. On the completion of all procedures, I came to conclude that trained teachers are rather student-centered and skill oriented whereas untrained teachers are teacher-centered and knowledge oriented. The study consists of four usual chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, importance of reading, review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definitions of the specific terms. Chapter two describes the methodology applied to carry out this research. Similarly, the third Chapter consists of the analysis and interpretation of the techniques used by trained and untrained teachers to teach reading under different headings and sub-headings. The last chapter presents the findings derived from the analysis and interpretation of data. It also consists of recommendations to teach reading skill in English. Finally, the references and appendices are also included.Item Vocabulary as an Affecting Factor in Developing Reading Comprehension(Central department of English Education, 2012) Jnawali, ShusilThe present thesis entitled 'Vocabulary as an Affecting Factor in Developing Reading Comprehension' is an attempt to find out development of reading comprehension of class XII students through teaching vocabulary. The main objective of this research was to find out the role of vocabulary in developing reading comprehension. In order to achieve this objective of the research, 12th grade students of Bardiya, district were purposively sampled, where 20 students were selected randomly. Pre-test items were administered for them to find out their initial proficiency level in English vocabulary and reading comprehension. Then, they were taught English vocabulary and reading comprehension according to daily lesson plan . Four progress tests were conducted before post-test was administered within the period of teaching. Then, finally, post-test was also administered and recorded the students' result of performance. Then, their score were also recorded, interpreted, compared and contrasted to reach the findings of the objectives. The result of this objective was achieved enthusiastically. And some pedagogical implications of this findings have also been recommended. The present thesis has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the general background, literature review, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter contains the methodology, which is sub-chaptered as the source of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and the limitations of the study. The third chapter includes the analysis and interpretation of the data obtained from the field. The last, fourth chapter has the findings and recommendations of the study in which some pedagogical implications have been recommended.