Strategies used for regarding comprehension by grade eight students
| dc.contributor.author | Yadav, Bechan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-28T06:43:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-28T06:43:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis entitled “Strategies Used for Reading Comprehension by Grade Eight Students” is an attempt to identify the strategies adopted by grade eight students in reading comprehension. The researcher collected data from the students of five secondary schools of Koshi rural municipality of Sunsari district. The researcher used survey research design. The total sample population of the study consisted of 50 students and five sample teachers selected from the five different schools. The researcher selected ten students from each school. The questionnaire was the major tool for the data collection. The researcher spent two days in each school for collecting the data. Students’ responses were collected in the first day and teachers’ responses were collected in the second day. This study revealed that there are varieties of strategies being implemented by the learners for reading comprehension. Some of the most frequently used strategies are asking teachers to translate English sentences into Nepali, consulting monolingual dictionary, reading English newspapers, consulting with peer, finding synonyms and antonyms, skimming and scanning. Similarly, most frequently implemented strategies for reading comprehension were predicting the meaning from the context, dividing the chapter into three stages like pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading stages, making pair discussion, connecting the new words with already learnt ones. Furthermore, the students adopted loud and silent reading strategies as well as paraphrasing, summarizing, elaborating, drawing conclusion. The students frequently asked the teachers to translate the text into Nepali equivalents for reading comprehension. This study consists of five chapters. Chapter one consists of the introduction, general background, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research question, significance and delimitation of the study. Chapter two consist review of related literature, their implications and theoretical framework. Chapter three consist of design of the study, source of data, population sample and sampling procedures, data collection procedures. Chapter four consists of results and discussion. This chapter includes the results of the study along with discussion of data. These data were analyzed and tabulated on the basis of the students’ and teachers’ responses. Chapter five consists of the summary, conclusion, and pedagogical implications of the study. The references and appendices are the conducting parts of the study. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/20727 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of English Education | en_US |
| dc.subject | Reading Comprehension | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nepali Equivalent | en_US |
| dc.title | Strategies used for regarding comprehension by grade eight students | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| local.academic.level | Masters | en_US |
| local.affiliatedinstitute.title | Janta Multiple Campus, Itahari | en_US |