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Item The Effectiveness of Visual Materials in Developing Reading Skill(Department of Education English, 2011) Gautam, Yam PrasadThis study attempts to find out “The Effectiveness of Visual Materials in Developing Reading skill”. Thirty students of grade eight studying at Shree Rastriya Taudaha Higher Secondary School are the sampled population of this study. The researcher himself was involved in experimental teaching for the purpose of carrying out the research. The tests (pre–test and post tests) were major tools for data collection. A pre- test was administered before actual classroom teaching and post–test was administered after teaching. The students were ranked on the basis of result of the pre–test. They were divided into two groups on the basis of odd even ranking of individual scores. Then, one group (group A) was taught with visual materials whereas another group (group B) was taught without visual materials. Each group attended twenty four lessons. Then, post–test was given. After that the results of these two tests were compared to determine the effectiveness of visual materials which was found to be effective and motivating technique in teaching English language classroom in developing reading skill. This thesis comprises four chapters. The first chapter consists of brief introduction of related areas of the study. It includes general background, objectives of the study and significance of the study. The second Chapter deals with methodology adopted during the study. The third Chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of data on the basis of the average score obtained in the pre–test and post–test between two groups. Similarly, the forth Chapter presents findings and recommendations drawn on the basis of analysis and interpretation of the data. References and appendices are added to the fourth chapter.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.