Vocabulary Achievement of Dhimal and Rai Students

Abstract

This study entitled "Vocabulary Achievement of Dhimal and Rai Students" was carried out to investigate English vocabulary achievement level and to compare it on the basis of ethnic group, work class, school and gender. Altogether ninety-six students were taken as a sample from various schools in Morang district. A set of questions which incorporated a wide range of question types was the tool for data collection. Questions like multiple choice, fill in the blanks, C-test, cross word puzzle, odd man out, synonyms, antonyms etc. were included in the set. It was distributed to all the informants to collect data from them. On the basis of the achieved data, analysis was done and findings were derived. I found Rai students ahead in the performance. The performance of nouns was the best and boys excelled girls in vocabulary achievement in aggregate. While comparing schools, the performance of girls was found better. This whole work has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter includes a short introduction of the English language in general, introduction to vocabulary, its importance, types of words, review of the related literature, objectives of the study and its significance. The second chapter makes clear the methodology adopted in this study. It includes sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools of data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of data. The data were analyzed using some statistical tools. The last chapter includes findings and recommendations on the basis of the analyzed data; findings were derived recommendations made.