Use of Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionary at Secondary Level

Abstract

The present study entitled 'Use of Monolingual and Bilingual Dictionaryat Secondary Level' was carried outto compare the proficiency ondictionary use interms of medium of instruction andsexandto comparethe usefulness of using monolingual andbilingual dictionary in ELT andBesides, it aims to find out the areas of difficulties of using themonolingual dictionary at secondary level. Moreover, it also presentssome recommendations to improve the existing pedagogical situation .Sankhuwa-sava district was selected purposively as study area for the research. Ten schools,hundred students and thirty secondary-level English teachers were selected using simple random sampling procedure.For the data collection, the test items and a set of questionnaire were prepared and administered among the selected students. And a set of questionnaire was prepared and administered among the teachers. The major findings of the study were that the proficiency of English-medium school students was far better than that of Nepali-medium school students; boys were slightly better in proficiency than the girls;monolingual dictionary is more useful in ELT than the bilingual one. The main difficulty of using an English monolingual dictionary was that the students could not understand the meaning in English only. The study is divided into four chapters along with their sub-chapters.Chapter one includes general background, review of the related literatures, objectives and the significance of the study. Chapter two deals with methodology, process of data collection and limitations of the study.The third chapter comprises analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. Chapter four incorporates findings and recommendations. Similarly,references and appendices are attached at the end.