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Item Attitudes of Humli Lama Learners Towards English Language Learning(Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur Kathmandu, Nepal, 2015) Jethara, DhananjayaThis study entitled Attitudes of Humli Lama Learners towards English Language Learning has made an effort to find out the attitudes of Humli Lama learners towards English language learning at secondary level. This research was based on survey design. The population of study was the Lama learners from public secondary schools of Humla district. The total sample of this study consisted of 40 Secondary Level Lama learners who were chosen using purposive non-random sampling procedure. The tool I used was questionnaire. The data collected from the learners were analyzed, interpreted for finding out attitudes of Lama learners towards English Language Learning at secondary level. This study shows that Lam learners want to learn English for various reasons for example to get good job, to communicate with foreigner, study for higher education. In this study, it was found that Lama learners were positive towards learning English but they wanted to change the present education system of Nepal like, curriculum, textbook and evaluation system need to change because the present teaching learning system in Nepal is teacher centered. In addition, the evaluation system only focused on writing and reading rather than listening and speaking. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the background of study, statement of the problem, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study, operational definition of key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of related literature and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with method and procedure of the study adopted during the research study, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of results. The fifth chapter deals with conclusion and recommendations. In the final part of this thesis, references and appendices are includedItem The Impact of Progress Test in Language Learning : A Practical Study(Department of English Language Education, 2007) Dangi, Dilli BahadurThe aim of this thesis was to measure the impact of progress test in language learning. It has been carried out practically and comparatively.To carry out the research, seventy students of grade nine studying at Tribhuvan Janata Higher Secondary School, Musikot, Rukum wereselected as sample population. A written test carrying four reading textswas used as pre-test to check theactual proficiency of the students in thebeginning of the experiment. Seventy students were kept in two classrooms and one set of question was given to each group. The testcontained both subjective and objective. Answer copies were checked andranked in a descending order. Then, the students were divided into twogroups on the basis of the odd-even roll number according to theindividual score of the pre-test. After dividing them into two groups, experimental group wastaught by taking progress tests and other by using final achievement test.Progress tests contained two texts: one seen and another unseen passages.The test was taken three times for only experimental group. After thecompletion of one month teaching, the similar test which was used for thepre-test was used as post-test. Then the results of both the tests werecompared to determine the impact of class progress test in languagelearning. From this research, the researcher has found that progress testyielded better impact on language learning. This thesis is divided into four chapters. Each chapter is dividedinto different sub-chapters. The first chapter deals with generalbackground of the study, review of the related literature, objectives of thestudy and significance of the study. 8 The second chapter deals with the methodology used during theresearch work. It consists of sources of data, population of the study,sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collectionand limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of thedata. The data have been analysed and interpreted on the basis of thedifference between the average score in marks and percentage of threeprogress tests as well as pre-test and post-test. The group with ahigherincrement in marks and percentages has been considered better. Theanalysis has been done under the following headings: a. Holistic comparisonb. Text and item-based comparison The forth chapter deals with the findings and recommendationswhich are derived from the analysis and interpretation of the data.Item A Study on Factors Affecting Second Language Acquisition(Faculty of english education, 2007) Dahal, Shyam PrasadThis study is an attempt to present an analysis of the social factors affecting second language acquisition of the secondary level students inMakawanpur district. The study focuses mainly on the production aspect oflanguage. The study was carried out with the assumption that the role ofsocial factors associated to the learners play a vital and crucial role inlanguage learning, especially in second language learning. The study has theobjectives to find out the social factors affecting second languageacquisition. The sample population of this study was forty students includingnineteen boys and 21 girls of two community schools of Makawanpurdistrict. The sample population contained students from ten different castes.The researcher developed a questionnaire and constructed different testitems for writing and speaking. The testing continued for three subsequentdays. Head masters and language teachers were interviewed. Theinformation obtained through interview were recorded and the writtenanswers to the questionnaires were collected. Simple statistical tools ofpercentage and measures of variability (mean and standard deviation) wereused in order to process, analyse and tabulate the collected data and comparethe significance of the proficiency difference according to gender, caste,economical background of the family and educational background of thefamily.After the conduction of the thesis the researcher found that overallachievement of the studentswas much lower, so called lower caste studentswere found how hesitant in getting involved in learning than the studentsfrom the so called upper caste, more matured students had lowerperformance than those who were at an appropriate age related to the level,social status and income factor had an indirect role to play in theperformance of the learner. The research contains four subsequent chapters. First chapter isintrocuctory chapter, second chapter is about methodology, third chapterdeals with analysis and interpretation of data, and the last chapter is aboutfindings and recommendations.