Reading Comprehension of English Newspaper Articles

Abstract

The present thesis entitled "Reading Comprehension of English Newspaper Articles" aimed at finding out the reading habit and reading comprehension ability of 10+2 level students of both government-aided and private higher secondary schools. In order to do so, the researcher collected the data from 11 and 12 grade students studying in government-aided and private schools in Kathmandu. The researcher used non-random purposive sampling procedure to study government-aided schools' students and random sampling method for private schools' students. The researcher compared the reading comprehension ability of the students Streamwise. The main findings of the present research are that the reading comprehension ability of the private school students was better than government-aided school students and the boys were found better than the girls in reading comprehension. Similarly, the newspaper reading habit of private school students was found higher than the government-aided school students. It is recommended that the government-aided schools' students need to be encouraged to read newspaper articles and to manage the English newspapers in library rooms. It is also recommended that the students should be encouraged to cultivate the habit of reading newspapers. This study is divided in four main chapters and some sub-chapters. The first chapter consists of general background, review of the related literature and the objectives of the study and the definitions of the specific terms. The second chapter deals with methodology. It encompasses sources of data, population of the study, sample population, tools for data collection, and the limitations of the study. The third chapter consists of analysis and interpretation of the data. The data is analyzed and interpreted in terms of boys vs. girls, government-aided school vs. private school using the simple statistical tools, mean and percentage. The fourth chapter incorporates findings and recommendations on the basis of the analysed data.