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Item Effectiveness of content–Based in struction in Teaching Reading(Department of English Education, 2011) Chimariya, Anju KumariThe present study was conducted to examine the“Effectiveness ofContent-Based Instruction in Teaching Reading.”The objective of the study wastofind out the effectiveness of content-based instruction inteaching reading.Thisstudy was conducted in Shree Chandrodaya Higher secondary School Kamane,Hetauda.The students of grade 9 were taken as the sample of the study. First,Iadministered a pre-test using the test items in the beginning and on the basis ofthe result of pre-test, experimental teaching was started.Three progressivetests were administered in the interval of seven class periods each. Itaught for25 days using content-based instruction method. The action research wasconducted to find out the strengths and weaknessesof content-basedinstruction on teaching reading. After the completion of teaching, a post-testwas administered .The results of both the tests were compared to determine theeffectiveness of content-based instruction on teaching reading. Content-basedinstruction was found to be effectivein teaching reading. This thesis work consists of four chapters. Chapter one is an introductorychapter which includes general background, objectives of the study, review ofthe related literature and the significance of the study. Chapter two provides thedetails of the methodology and the procedures followed by the researcher in thecollection of theprimary as well secondary data.It particularly consists ofsources of data, sampling procedures, tools for data collection, process of datacollection and limitations of the study.Chapter three consists of analysisandinterpretation of the data.The data wereanalyzed and interpreted on the basisof the average score in the pre-test and post-test. The last chapter describes the 9 findings and recommendations derived from this research. This chapter isfollowed by the references and appendices respectively.Item Effectiveness of Thematic Approach in Teaching Reading(Department of English Education, 2011) Gautam, Khim RajThe present study was conducted to examine the“Effectiveness of ThematicApproach inTeaching Reading Comprehension”. The objectives of thestudy were to find out the effectiveness of Thematic Approach in teachingreading comprehension and to suggest some pedagogical implications. Thisstudy was conducted in Shree Devchuli Higher Secondary School,Nawalparasi. The students of Grade XI were taken as the sample of the study.First, the researcher took a pre-test and on the basis of the result of pre-test,real teaching was started. The researcher taught for 24 days using ThematicApproachto reading. The experimental research was conducted to find out theeffectiveness of Thematic approach in reading comprehension. After thecompletion of teaching, a post-test was taken. The results of both tests werecompared to determine the effectiveness of thematic approach usingexperimental research on teaching reading. It was found that thematic approachwas effective in teaching reading comprehension. This thesis work consists of four chapters. Chapter one consists of introductoryof related area of the study. It includes objectives and significance of the study.Chapter two provides the details of the methodology and the proceduresfollowed by the researcher in the collection of the primary as well secondarydata. Chapter three consists of analysisand interpretation of the data. The datawere analyzed and interpreted on the basis of the average score in the pre-testand post-test. The last chapter describes the findings and recommendationsderived from this research.Item Gaps Between Curriculum Objectives and Students' Achievement(Department of English Education, 2008) Khadka, UpendraThe research entitled Gaps Between Curriculum Objectives and Students' Achievementwith reference to reading skills was attempted to find out the gapbetween curriculum objectives and students' achievement in Rukum district with referenceto the reading skills andtheiranalyses. In this research, the researcherused both random and non random sampling procedures.Heused non-randomsamplingprocedurefor selecting four schools of Rukum district and randomsampling was used for selecting 20 students from each school.Thenthe researcherselected altogether 80 students.Theresearcher used testitemsastools of datacollection.Theresearcherparticularlyfound the following two findingsinthisresearchstudy:(i)The average gap in reading skill of secondary level was found29.12 i.e. 64.72 percent in Rukum district.(ii)The students of Rukum districtwerebetterin vocabulary than incomprehension. They werefound to be weakerin understandingof literary textand giving argument which were related toreading sub skill(no.4 and 8 i.e. R4/R8). The research is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, introduction of therelated topic hasbeendescribed. In the second chapter,methodology of theresearch hasbeenmentioned. In the same way, chapter three is about analysis andinterpretation of the data which is the body of the research. The researcher hastabulated the result sheet at first and analysed it using simple statistical tool ofpercentage and mean. The fourth chapter has focused on findingsandrecommendations.Item Reading comprehension ability of seventh graders(Department of English Education, 2019) Limbu, BirendraThis research work attempts to compare the reading comprehension ability of the Seventh Graders of Taplejung District in a variety of seen and unseen texts. To carry out this research work, the researcher prepared the test items including six different seen and unseen texts i.e story, letter and biography. Then a test was administrated to a number of 60 students in order to find out data for the research. The sources of data were 60 students from six public schools of Pathivara Yangwarak Rural Municipality, Taplejung District (seventh graders only). Then the test was administered to collect the data. After the administration of the test, the answer sheets of the students were collected, scored, analyzed and the reading comprehension ability was calculated and compared. It was found that students have obtained 76.75 percentage in all seen and unseen texts. Students scored better in seen texts than unseen texts. They scored better in story than letters and biography in seen texts and they have scored better in letter than story and biography in unseen texts. Girls were found having better reading comprehension ability in both seen and unseen texts than boys where girls scored 92 percentage and boys scored 82.25 percentage. This research study consists of five chapters: introduction, review of related literature, methodology, results and discussions and findings and recommendations. The first chapter introduction contains general background, statements of the problems, rational of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, significant of the study and delimitations of the study. Similarly second chapter deals with review of the related literature, implication of the reviewed literature and conceptual framework. Chapter three methods and procedures of the study consists of design of the study, sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedures, data collection tools and procedures, process of data collection and data analysis and interpretations. Forth chapter is result and discussions of the data. In this section marks obtained by the students have been analyzed to find out their reading comprehension ability. Some statistical tools such as average and percentage have been used to analyze the marks obtained by the students. Finally, the reading comprehension ability of the students of seventh graders has been compared on the basis of the marks obtained in seen and unseen texts. Finally fifth chapter consists of findings and recommendations of the study. Reference and appendices are presented at the end of this chapter.Item Strategies Adopted by the Students of Grade Eleven to Develop Reading Skill(Central department of English Education, 2012) Joshi, Rajendra PrasadThe present study entitled "Strategies Adopted by the Students of Grade Eleven to Develop Reading Skill" is an attempt to find out the strategies of grade eleven students that they adopt to develop reading skill and also to compare the strategies adopted by the students. This is a survey research. In order to carry out this study, I have collected the data from eighty students of grade eleven studying in four different private colleges of Kathmandu district. I took twenty students from each four colleges. The tool of data collection was questionnaire having both closed ended and open ended questions. The findings of this study showed that 85 percent of the students set the purpose of reading before the actual reading starts and 43.75 percent of the students responded that they assessed whether the purpose they set before reading the text was met or not. This study is divided into four chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction which consists of reading skill, types of reading, its sub skills, materials for reading, ways of improving reading skill, reading strategies. Moreover, it consists of the objectives and significance of the study preceded by the review of related literature. Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted for the study. It consists of sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection, and limitations of the study. Chapter three includes analysis and interpretation of the data. The collected data were analysed and interpreted descriptively and comparatively using simple statistical tool. Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations where recommendations were given on the basis of findings.Item Strategies used by basic level english eachers while eaching reading skill in mixed- ability classroom(Department of English Educaion, 2023) Bohara, Rabina KumariThis research study entitled Strategies Used by Basic Level English Teachers while Teaching Reading Skill in the Mixed-Ability Classroom was an attempt to find out the teaching strategies used by Basic level English teachers to teach reading text. This study was carried out using both the primary and secondary sources of data. For primary sources 20 classes were observed of 5 teachers of 5 community based schools of Kirtipur Municipality. To collect the primary data, I conducted the interview with 5 teachers of 5 different schools of Kirtipur Municipality, Kathmandu on the basis of 8 questions regarding the strategies used to teach reading skill. The data were analyzed using statistical tools like average, percentage and presented using para-orthographical modes like tables. The data were analyzed based on 24 teaching strategies for teaching reading texts under the pre-reading, while-reading and postreading stages. Purposive non-random sampling strategy was applied to select the sample size for this study. Similarly, survey research design was applied to accomplish this research work. It was found that only 48.75% teachers applied the pre-reading activities properly. Similarly, Basic level English teachers were found to be using the while-reading activities only by 42.5%. Finally, it was found that only 33.75% teachers applied the post-reading activities properly. They were found that they used the different strategies like warm-up activities, asking to search new words, asking exercises of textbooks, follow-up activities, summarizing the text. They were also found that they rarely used the strategies like talking about the poet/author, paraphrasing, asking to share their relevant experiences, narrating the reading text and assigning the project work. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is introduction that deals with background of the study, statement of problem, objective, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of related literature, under which review of related theoretical literature and review of related empirical literature, implication of the review of study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methodology under which design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation procedure and ethical consideration. Similarly, the fourth chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the result. And finally, the fifth chapter deals with the findings, conclusion and recommendations. References and appendices are attached at the end of this thesis.Item Students' Ability to establish Cohesion in Reading(Department of English Education, 2006) Paudel, PitambarThe research entitled"Students Ability to EstablishCohesion inReading" is an attempt to find out the ability of 10 graders ofgovernment aided schools to establish cohesion in reading. In order to doso, theresearcher collected data from 10 th graders of Kathmandu, Lalitpurand Bhaktapur districts. The sample population consisted of 180 studentswho were selected by using stratified random sampling procedure. Twoversions of cloze tests viz. cohesive ties format and fixed ratio formatwere provided to the students in order to assess their ability to establishcohesion in reading. The data were analyzed and interpreted aiming tofind out the extent to which they showed their ability to establishcohesion in reading comprehension and at comparing the students on thebasis of different variables. On the basis of the collected data, thestudents' ability to establish cohesive devices was determined by usingsimple statistical tools such as mean and percentage. The research findings show that students are more proficient toestablish cohesion in reading on cohesive ties format thanon the fixedratio format. They are more proficient to supply exact words to the keythan to supply synonymous/acceptable words. On the whole, their overallability to establish cohesion in reading seems to be very poor. The study consists of four chapters, which are given below. Chapter one deals with the introduction. It consists of generalbackground of the study,review of the relatedliterature, objectives of thestudy, significance of the study and definitions of the specific terms. Chapter two introduces the methodology adopted for the study. Itencompasses sources of data, population of the study, sampling thprocedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and thelimitations of the study. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the datawhich has been done in terms of cohesive ties format, fixed ratio format,school wise comparison and cohesive devices. The statistical tools suchas mean, percentage along withdifferent tables and figures were usedwhile analyzing and interpreting the data. Chapter four incorporates findings and recommendations. On thebasis of the analysis and interpretation, some significant findings areenlisted.On the basis of these findings and on the experience of theresearcher while conducting the research some recommendations forpedagogical implications and some recommendations for furtherresearches are made. This chapter is followed by references andappendices.Item A Study of Teaching Reading in Classroom Activities(Department of English Education, 2009) Ghimire, Krishna PrasadThis thesis has been prepared to identify and analyze classroom activities inteaching reading at gradefour ofpublic schools. In order to carry out this studythe researcher collected data from grade four students of ArghakhanchiDistrict. Classroom observation form was used tocollect the data.Tenteachersand all the studentsstudyingin the class participated in the study.To obtainrelevant information the researcherobservedthe classhimself. Thefindings ofthe study show that a majority of the teachers conducted readingactivities inthe classroom. All the reading passagesweretaught asking questionsandreciting meaning in their mother-tongue. Most of the teachers just askedstudents to read the passagethoroughlywithout reading comprehension.Seventy percent of teachers commonly pointed out to their textbooks and theyexplained the text themselves. The teachers gave attention on reading andwriting than listening andspeaking. Studentmotivation on teaching readingwas found satisfactory. A very few teachers used teaching materials. Studentparticipation and student-student interaction seemed less and most of theclasses were dominated by the teacher. The study consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with the introduction. Itconsists of the English language, importance of English language teaching inNepal, objectives of teaching English at primary level, curriculum of readingskills in grade four, language skills, teaching reading,and reviewof the relatedliterature,objective and significance of the study.Chapter two describes themethodology which includes sources of data collection and limitation of thestudy.Chapter three includes the analysis and interpretation of data. It dealswith different classroom activities that are related and practiced to teachingreading skill.Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations made inthe light of findings.Item A Study on Testing Reliability in Termsof Parallel-Forms Method(Faculty of Education, 2010) Thapa, BhawanaThis present study entitled ‘A Study on Testing Reliability interms of ParallelFormsMethod' aimsat finding out the reliability interms of parallel forms me-thod. The researcher administered pre test and post test to the students of Pok-hara United Academy, Kalika Higher Secondary, Shree Amar Singh HigherSecondary and Metropolitan Academy. The total sample of the study was 80students of the selected schools. The sample of population was done on the ba-sis of thejudgmentalsampling procedure. Itwas done with respect toschool,genderand item wise. The researcher using primary and secondary sources ofdata did this research. Results showed that the reliability of parallel-forms me-thod in assessing reading skill is high. The reliability of the test item differsfrom school to school, item-to-item and even male and female students. Resultsof item-wise comparison showed that reliability of test in true–false and fill-in-the blanks itemswas high whereas in matchingitem, multiple-choice item,rearrange andshort answerquestions was satisfactory. Moreover, results oftrue-false item showed the highest reliability whereasshortanswerquestionsshowed thelowest reliability.Results of personal comparison showed thatonlya few students got the same marksin both tests. Due to the marks variationamong the students, it was concluded that the test item lacked reliability. Thethesishas been divided into four chapters.The first chapter of the studydeals with the introduction part, whichincludesgeneral background,theEng-lish language in Nepal, Language teaching and testing, reading skill, testingreading, quality of a good language test, validity, reliability, parallel forms me-thod, review of related literature, objectives of the study andsignificance of thestudy.The second chapter deals with the methodology used in the study. It in-cludessource of data, population of study, sampling procedure, tools of datacollection, process of data collection,limitation ofthe study etc.Chapter threeis the main part of study that includes analysis and interpretation.Last chapterdeals with the findings and recommendations made after the analysis of data.Item A Study on the Techniques of Teaching Reading in English at Secondary Level(Department of English Education, 2009) Paudel, IshwarThis research attempts to find out different techniques applied in teaching reading and toidentify the most commonly used techniques in teaching reading at secondary level indifferent public schools. For this purpose the researcher selected the public schools ofBanke district as his field of study. He visited forty (40) teachers teaching English atdifferent public schools of Banke district. The main research tools were questionnaire andclass observation check list. At first, the researcher distributed a set of questionnaire toeach teacher and requested them to response to it. Similarly, he observed three classeseach of forty teachers while teaching reading items in their respective classes. Afterobserving three classes each of those forty teachers, he collected the questionnaire andarranged them with observation check list. Then both of the items (questionnaire andobservation check list) were analyzed and interpreted statistically and descriptively. Thefindings of the study have shown that group work, pair work and demonstration aregenerally used where as explanation is the most commonly used technique in teachingreading at secondary level. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with general background ofthe study, review of related literature, objectives of the study and significance of thestudy. Thesecond chapter deals with the methodology adopted to carry out the research.In other words, it includes the sources of data, population of the study, tools for datacollection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter dealswith analysis and interpretation of data. The data have been analyzed and interpreted onthe basis of the responses mentioned by the sampled population and class observationcheck lists of each sampled population. Chapter four consists of the findings andrecommendations as well as pedagogical implications.Item The Techniques of Teaching Reading Atlower Secondary Level(Department of English Language Education, 2008) B.K., Ram BahadurThe present thesis entitled “The Techniques of Teaching Reading atLower Secondary Level” aims to find out the techniques used in teachingreading. For this purpose, thirty teachers teaching English in different publicschools in Surkhet District were selected. The schools and teachers wereselected through non-random sampling procedure. The questionnaire and observation forms were the tools of collectingprimary data. After collecting the questionnaire and observing classes, datahave been analyzed and interpreted statistically and descriptively. The findings of the study have shown that most of the teachers presenta model reading and students are involved in reading activities after theteachers’ reading. Student reading was found to be the common practice inreading classes. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter One introduces the studywith its general background i.e. language teaching, language skills, thereading skills, skills in teaching reading, types of reading, review of relatedliterature, objectives and significance of the study. Similarly, Chapter Two deals with the methodology of the study. Itcomprises of sources of data, population of the study, sample population,sampling procedure, tools and process of data collection and limitations ofthe study. Chapter Three deals with analysis and interpretation of the datausingdifferent tables including their descriptions. Chapter Four consists of findings and some pedagogical implicationsof the study. References and appendices are given. The appendix section includesresearch tools and other information.Item Use of Elicitation Technique in Developing Reading Comprehension(Department of English Education, 2011) Rimal, BikasThe present study entitled "Use of Elicitation Technique in Developing ReadingComprehension" is an attempt to find out theuseof elicitation technique indeveloping grade nine students' reading comprehension ability. In order to carryout this study, I selected thirtytwo students of grade nine of Janak SecondarySchool using non-random purposive sampling procedure. For the study, I usedthem as primary sources of data. The primary data were collected from thirty-twostudents of grade nine of the school. After selectingthe sample population, a pre-test was administered to determine the students' initial proficiency on the selecteditems. Then twenty one lessons were taught using elicitation technique. Duringthat period, two progressive tests were administered at the interval of sevenlessons and finally a post-test was administered. Through the analysis andinterpretation of the collected data it was found that elicitation technique wasreallyusefultechnique in developing reading comprehension ability of thestudents. This study incorporates four main chapters and other many sub-chapters. The firstchapter deals with the general background, review of the related literature,objectives and significance the study. Similarly, the second chapter consists of themethodology (sources of data, primary sources of data:secondary sourcesandpopulation of the study and sampling procedure), tools for data collection, processof data collection and limitations of the study. Likewise,third chapter deals withthe analysis and interpretation of data, analysis of individual test scores obtainedfrom four tests and analysis and interpretation of item wise correct and incorrectresponses on the four tests.In the same way, the fourth chapter presents findingsand recommendations of the study based on the analysis of the collected data.Finally, the last part of the study includes references and appendices.