Reading Comprehension Ability of the Tharu Students

Abstract

This study entitled "Reading Comprehension Ability of the Tharu Students" firstly aimed at finding out the reading comprehension ability of Tharu students. Secondary,it had the objective to compare and contrast the proficiency of students in terms of seen and unseen texts. I used non-random purposive sampling procedure to select the sixty Tharu students studying in grade 10 in different 5 schools in Dang district. I used test as the research tool including seen and unseen passages following with a number of items of questions. The collected data have been presented in tables ; and analyzed and discussed quantitatively in percentile and average. The major findings showed that the Tharu students' overall reading comprehension was average.Similarly, they had slightly better performance in seen passages in comparison to unseen ones. The reading comprehension ability of Tharu girls are better in both seen and unseen texts. The students scored the highest average mark in True/False item ofquestion' in both seen and unseen texts where as they achieved the lowest averagemark in similarities and answer the questions both seen and unseen texts. The thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter. Itincludes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study,research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter deals with review of theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework of the study. The third chapter deals with methodology which incorporates research design and method, population, sample and sampling strategy, field/area of the study, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter deals with the vigorous analysis of data and interpretation of results along with the summary. The fifth chapter presents the conclusions and recommendations of this research in different levels such as policy related, practice related and further research related ones. References and appendices form the concluding part of thesis.