Proficiency of Nepali and English Medium schools in Grammar and Vocabulary

Abstract

This study entitled Proficiency of Nepali and English Medium Schools in Grammar and Vocabulary attempts to explore the students proficiency in vocabulary items and grammatical items included in the textbook of grade five.Altogether forty students from two schools of Khairahani Municipality were selected for this study.The researcher prepared a test item to check their proficiency in English regarding grammar and vocabulary. A set of written test was used as the maininstrument for the data collection.Four different types of test items of twenty questions were asked. The data were provided by the 40 students of Nepali medium school and English medium school. The sample population was selected by using arandom sampling procedure. The data obtained were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive approach and simple statistical tools viz. mean and percentage. The finding of the study showed that the English vocabulary and grammatical achievement of the students of grade 5wasgood in English medium school and satisfactory in Nepali medium school.It was also found that there was a greatdisparity instudents’achievement of English vocabulary and grammarin different schools. The present work is divided into five chapters. The first chapter includes generalbackground, statement of problem, objective of the study, research questions,significance of the study anddelimitations of the study. The second chapter isconcernedwith literature review focuses on review of theoretical literature, review ofempirical literature. Implication of reviewof literature and conceptual framework.The third chapter i.e. methodologyfocuseson research design, population sample andsampling strategy, field of study, tools for data collection and procedure of data collection. Similarly, the fourth chapter is about analysis of data interpretation of there sult. And conclusion and recommendation sare given in the fifth chapter. On the basis of the conclusion some recommendations are given the references and appendix are the concluding parts of the study.