Strategies Used for Comprehending Short Story by Students of Grade Eleven

Abstract

The present study entitled‘Strategies Used for Comprehending Short Story by Students of Grade Eleven’ is an attempt to find out the comprehending strategies used by the higher secondary level students.The main aim of the study was to find out the strategies used for comprehending short story by students of grade eleven.To meet the objectives of the research, forty students from four different schools of Kailali district viz.Shree Arunodaya Higher Secondary School, Birendra Vidya Mandir School, Saptarishi Higher Secondary School and Jana Jagriti Higher Secondary School were selected which were accessible to the researcher for this study. The researcher used systematic sampling procedure to select the students. The researcher also used the equal number of students from each school. A set of questionnaires containing both closed and open ended questions was used as a main instrument for the data collection to elicit the required data for the study. The collected data were analyzed using the percentage and table.It was found that the students used ten different strategies i.e. synonym, antonym, definition,guessing, asking, exemplification, gesture, avoidance, translation and explanation. This thesis consists off our chapters with references and appendices at the end.The first chapter deals with the introduction part which mainly includes general background, review of related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study. The second chapter i.e. methodology focuses on the sources of data,sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitation of the study. Similarly,the third chapter is concerned with the analysis and interpretation of data. And findings and recommendations are given in the fourth chapter. On the basis of the findings some recommendation and pedagogical implications are drawn.Finally, the reference and appendix are the concluding parts of the study.