Reading Speed and Comprehension of Grade Ten Students
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Faculty of English Education
Abstract
The thesis entitled ‘Reading Comprehension and Speed of Grade Ten
Students’ has been prepared to find out the reading comprehension and speed
of the students of the grade ten who are studying in different private and
government aided schools of Morang district. It shows the comparison among
the students of different secondary schools, comparison between private and
government schools. To conduct the research, the researcher took the sample
students studying in grade ten of Morang district. Four schools (two Private
and two government aided) were selected and twenty students from each
school were taken for the purpose of data collection. Only written script in
objective tests i.e. Multiple choice, True/False, Matching and Completion items
were given to the students to collect data. After conducting the test, their
answers were checked, recorded and analyzed on the basis of general standard
of reading comprehension and speed. The findings show that the students of
grade ten of Morang district can comprehend a seen passage better than an
unseen passage. Similarly, they have better reading speed on seen text than that
of unseen text. According to the present research, the students of private school
have better reading comprehensibility and speed than the students of
government school.
The first chapter of this thesis consists of general background which includes a
short description of reading comprehension and speed, reading as skills, types
of reading, importance of reading, components of reading and approaches to
reading. Similarly, it also includes the review of the related literature, the
objectives of the study, significance of the research and limitations of the study.
The second chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the research under
which the sources of data collection, sampling procedures, the tools for the data
collection, piloting test items, process of data collection and limitations of the
study are mentioned. Similarly, the third chapter deals with the analysis and
interpretation of the data obtained by applying simple statistical means. The
fourth chapter deals with findings and recommendations based on the research.