Cyberculture in Elt: A Reflection from nepali Fictions

Abstract

This research work entitled 'Cyberculture in Literature: A Reflection of NepaliFictions' has been carried out to analyze the use of cyberculture in the selectedNepali fictions and to show its use in ELT with the different tools ofcyberculture technology. It is the analytical survey in the present day world.For this, I purposively selected four different Nepali fictions having Englishtranslation viz. 'Palpasa Café' by Narayan Wagle, 'The Dream Assembly' byManojBabuMishra, 'Socrates' Footsteps' by Govinda Raj Bhattarai and 'AParallel Sky' by Padmawoti Singh. I conducted a descriptive research;therefore, I only used observation as my primary tool to analyze data. At first, Ianalyzed each sentence comprising of cyberculture trend and later checked itsrelation with ELT. I finally found out the different tools of cyber technologyapplicableinthe field ofELT through the reflection of Nepali fictions. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapterone is an introductory chapterwhich includes general background, objectives of the study, review of therelated literature and significance of the study. Chapter two includes themethodology adopted to complete the research. It particularly contains sourcesof data, sampling procedures, tools and processes of data collection andlimitations of the study. Chapter three consists of the analysis and interpretationof the data. Chapter four consists of the findings and recommendations of thestudy based on theanalysis and interpretation of the data. This chapter isfollowed by the references.