Accurancy of language: Spoken english of tourist guides

Abstract

This thesis entitled Accuracy of Language: Spoken English of Tourist Guides is an attempt to find out accuracy and appropriacy in English spoken by tourist guides working in Sauraha in terms of sentence pattern, language functions and vocabularies. To achieve the objective, the researcher visited the different places of Sauraha. She recorded eight briefings and five conversations between tourists and the guide. She selected guides by using purposive sampling method on the basis of her convenience. The omission of auxiliaries has been found to be most frequent while absence of nouns and possessives has been found least frequent in the sentence patterns of tourist guide. Similarly, a few Nepali words were used instead of its English equivalents. The study is divided into five different chapters. The first chapter deals with the background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definition of the specific terms. Similarly, the second chapter comprises the review of the theoretical literature, review of the empirical literature, Implication of the review of the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter consist of methods and procedure of the study, research design, study population and Sampling procedure, Field of study, tools for data collection, procedure of data collection, procedure for data analysis and interpretation. The fourth chapter consist of analysis and interpretation of data, analysis of sentence pattern, interpersonal communication, analysis of language functions and summary of findings. The final chapter consists of conclusion and recommendation.