English and Nepali Reading Speed of Tharu Students

Abstract

This research work is an attempt to find out and compare the readingspeed of Tharustudentsof secondary level of Dang district in theEnglishand Nepali languages. To carry out this researchwork the researcher prepared test items.Then a pilot test wasadministered to a numberof 20students, from LinconSchool and Shuvatara School assuming the best readers available inKathmandu valley,to finalizethetest materials for data collection. All together 60 students fromprivateand governmentaidedschools ofDang district were taken for the study. The test was administered to collectthe data. After the administration of the test, the answer sheets of thestudents were collected and analyzed, and then their reading speed wascompared. The result of the study shows that theTharustudents’ English readingspeed is better than that of Nepali. Theiraverage reading speed in Englishwas 102.5 w/m where as the average reading speed in Nepali was 94 w/m.Most of the students from Nepali medium schools have poor reading speed.But the majority of the students from English medium schools have betterreading speed in both English and Nepali language. This study has been divided into four different chapters: Introduction,Methodology, Analysis and Interpretation, and Findings andRecommendations. The first chapter is the introduction of the study whichincludes background of thestudy, objectivesof the study, significance of thestudyand review of related literature.Similarly, the second chapter comprises the sources of data,samplingprocedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and thelimitations of the study. The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data.In this chapter, thecollected data havebeen analyzedboth descriptively andstatistically to fulfill theobjectives of the study. Finally, the fourth chapter includes the findings and some pedagogicalrecommendations.