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Item Analysis and Achievement of Grade Two English Vocabulary(Department of English Education, 2006) Gaire, Bal RamThis research is about analysis and achievement of Grade II Englishvocabulary of Government schools. The research is carried out to mark theGrade II English vocabulary in two ways: firstly the study on total vocabularyitems, the frequency and the items just introduced in Grade II; secondly theachievement under the sub-headings total vocabulary achievement, schoolwiseachievement, itemwise achievement, and the difficulty level of the vocabularyitems. To carry out this research, the researcher descriptively studied the GradeII vocabulary items, then the researcher administered the final achievement ofvocabulary items developing a-hundred-mark’s test sheet. The researcherrandomly selected three government schools, 30 students from each and the testwas administered. The researcher listed the items and presented the result oftest objectively and precisely. The research work found 413 words to be used in Grade II Englishtextbook which belonged to different parts of speech. Nouns occupied almost ahalf (47.7%) of the total vocabulary used in Grade II. There were 272 itemswhich were introduced in Grade II only. The second portion was about vocabulary achievement under differentsub-headings. 50% or above (out of 100%) was supposed to be satisfactoryresult. The achievement was found quite satisfactory since majority (92.22%)of students were found above the average level (50% or above). It was a goodachievement in total. Nouns were the easiest for the students than othervocabulary items. The present study is divided into fourmajor chapters. The first chapterdeals with a short introduction of English language in general; curriculum,syllabus, textbook, vocabulary, literature review, objectives and significance ofthe study.The second chapter concerns with the methodology adopted to carry outthis research work. The third chapter analyses and interprets the data. It presents thevocabulary used in the Grade II textbook, achievement of vocabulary by thestudents and the difficulty level of the students. The fourth chapterdeals with major findings and the recommendationsof the present study.Item An Analysis of New Headway Intermediate Students’ Book Prescribed for PCL 1ST Year(Department of English Education, 2007) Dawadi, RajendraThis research was carried out to analyze the English textbook.‘New Headway’ for PCL 1 st year.For this, the textbook was analyzed interms of its physical and academic aspects. In the process of this study,the researcher collected data from both sources: primary and secondary.The primary sources of data were the responses made by the Englishteachers and students who had just completed this book and theresearchers. The secondary sources of data were the textbook itself, different theses in department, other books and journals related to the topic. In order to collect the data, two sets of questionnaire were prepared for theteachers and students. Apart from this, the researcher, himself studied thetextbook in great detail and two units of the textbook were randomlyselected and the analysis was made on the basis of the theoreticalframework fortextbook evaluation. The obtained data were tabulated andanalyzed using a simple statistical tool. The findings of the study are based on teachers’ perceptionsstudents’ perceptions and researcher’s own views on the textbook. Themain findings of this study are as follows: i. The textbook is appropriate in size and convenient forhandling and carrying for the students. ii. The textbook contains communicative activities.iii. The content items of the textbook are interesting because they introduce foreign culture to the students.iv. The textbook has the integration of four language skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing.)