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Item Basic Level Students’ Proficiency in Free Writing(Department of English Education, 2022) Singh, PrabeshThe present study entitled “Basic level Students’ Proficiency in Free Writing” aimed at determining the students’ proficiency of grade 8 in free writing. Survey was used as a research design. The sample wasone hundred and five students selected from seven community schools of Lahan municipality through simple random sampling procedure. The study used essay writing and paragraphs writing as tools for data collection. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted with the help of the tables and statistical tools such as mean and percentage. The findings show low proficiency of students in free writing seen from the measures of ability in subject matter, cohesion and coherence, vocabulary, grammar and mechanics. The students who had below basic level category of proficiency were 44.81%, basic level category were 29.29%, proficient 1 category were 19.16%, proficient 2 were 3.53%, proficient 3 were 3.15% whereas students haven’t achieved advance level of proficiency. The overall performance was below 40% indicating students’ low proficiency in writing. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter incorporates the background of the study, statements of the problem, rational of the study, objectives of the study, research questions, delimitations of the study, and the operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter contains review of both theoretical and empirical literature along with their implications, and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study which comprise design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter deals with the analysis of data, and interpretation of the results. The fifth chapter determines findings, conclusions and recommendations.Item Grade eight students' proficiency in formation of Wh-Questions(Department of English Education, 2023) Shrestha, ManjuAvailable with full textItem Proficiency of grade seven students in essay writing in Panchkhapan Municipality of Sankhuwasabha(Department of English Education, 2023) Limbu, SumitraThe present study entitled Proficiency of Grade Seven Students in Essay Writing in Panchkhapan Municipality of Sankhuwasabha aimed to find out the proficiency of grade seven students in essay writing in public schools. The researcher selected forty students from five different schools of Panchkhapan municipality in Sankhuwasabha district through purposive convenient sampling procedure. The test items were used (i.e., five essay types questions) as the main tool for data collection. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted with the help of the tables and using statistical tools such as mean and percentage. The finding of the study showed that most of the students were found better in content, grammar, correctness, coherence and cohesion respectively but they were found weak in selection of the appropriate vocabulary and punctuation marks. Likewise, most of students were found weak or lacking knowledge in three basic parts (introduction, body and conclusion) of the essay. The finding also showed that most of students have good knowledge on content in the comparison to other components of the essay. Similarly, this study found that the students’ proficiency level in essay writing is acceptable. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic in which background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, and the significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of key terms. The second chapter covers the related theoretical review, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study which includes design and methodology of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of the results. It also includes analysis of the collected data, interpretation the results and findings. The fifth chapter deals with conclusions and implementation followed by references and appendices. The implications are subsumed under policy related, practice related and further research related respectively.