Cultural Elements and Associated Vocabulary Present in The English Textbook For Grade X

Abstract

The present study entitled "Cultural Elements and Associated Vocabulary Present in the English Textbook for Grade X" is an attempt to study the presentation of cultural elements in terms of caste, religion and culture associated terms in terms of four major parts of speech, number of occurrence and philosophy as eastern and western culture. The data of the study were collected through secondary sources. All the cultural elements from the text were listed and altogether 9 cultural elements were found. One hundred and thirty-nine different culture associated vocabularies are found from the different texts of the book. It is concluded that the word 'Trousers' has the highest number of frequency, out of 139 cultural words, 5 verbs, 2 adjectives and no adverbs are found in the textbook. Most of the cultural elements present in the textbook also come from Nepal and most of them are from the Terai and eastern Nepal. This study has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study and definition of specific terms. The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the study under which source of data, process of data collection and limitations of the study are presented. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of data in terms of cultural elements and associated vocabulary items. Mainly descriptive and analytical approaches have been used for the purpose. Lastly, chapter four deals with the major findings and recommendations of the study.