Gender Difference and Language Variations in English Produced by Nepali Learners

Abstract

There search work entitled Gender Difference and Language Variationsin English Produced by Nepali Learners is an attempt to analyze and describe the language behavior of men and women in terms of morphology, turn taking and interruption, minimal responses and politeness. It is a field based research.The data for this study were recorded conversations. They were recorded from the students of class twelve of a private college in the Kathmandu valley.The researcher recorded40 conversations from ten pairs; each pair was given a list of topics for selection.All the Nepali speakers' of English of class twelve were the sample population for this study.The total samples selected for this study,were20students of class twelve. Among them,ten were selected from each gender (male and female) using purposive non-random sampling method.The required data were collected by using observation and audio recording them.In this study data were systematically collected, analyzed, interpreted and findings were listed in the points.Some of the findings of this study are: The women speakers used rising intonation frequently in greetings, taking leave and even when they answered the question with a statement but men used falling intonation.In the conversations women used some special words like;cute, preety, love, cool and men used nice, super great.While talking, men used the more words that indicate the turn shifting than women participants. In total 85words were used, out of them men used 58% and women42%. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with general background, statements of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions or hypothesis, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of theoretical and empirical literature and conceptual framework of the study. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the study in which, design of the study,sample of the study, sampling procedure,tools and process of data collection of the study are discussed. The fourth x chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the collected data descriptively and using simple statistical tool; percentage. Similarly the fourth chapter also deals with the findings based on the analysis and interpretation of the data. The fifth chapter deals with the conclusion and implications of the study based on the findings of the study. This chapter is followed by reference and appendices.