Journal of NeltaPub Date : 2019-11-30DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27696
R. Giri
{"title":"Variations in English: Attitudes and awareness","authors":"R. Giri","doi":"10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27696","url":null,"abstract":"Not available.","PeriodicalId":416929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nelta","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114436232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of NeltaPub Date : 2019-11-30DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27698
Bipana Koirala
{"title":"A colorless sequence of structural analysis in Seto Dharatee","authors":"Bipana Koirala","doi":"10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27698","url":null,"abstract":"This review is a brief interpretation of structural symmetry of Amar Nyaupane’s Seto Dharatee; a fiction; exploring the underlying units of which the text is built and aims to explore the notion of narrative grammar using the theoretical insights from the Tzvetan Todorov’s structural framework. The narrative grammar is analysed by the actions like ‘to seek’, ‘to find’ and ‘to lose’. This study contributes to compare the structural analysis of other novels’ with this novel written in the same era. This also depicts how the repetition of same grammar and same formula constitute the entire text. Through the review is of a Nepali novel, readers of the Journal of NELTA may benefit from the structural, linguistic and interpretative analysis of the novel.","PeriodicalId":416929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nelta","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130919841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of NeltaPub Date : 2019-11-30DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27687
N. Ghimire
{"title":"Veracities of teaching listening in Nepal","authors":"N. Ghimire","doi":"10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27687","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores realities, problems and their solutions of teaching listening in English in secondary level education in Nepal. As it is a narrative inquiry, I chose three English teachers and six students from three different secondary level community schools of Kamalamai Municipality of Sindhuli district, Nepal as the participants of the study using purposive sampling procedure. The findings demonstrated that the listening skill is the neglected skill in our school education. The teachers do not pay much more attention to teach this skill in our community school by thinking teaching listening is not important for examination purpose. There is scarcity of audio-visual devices, the classroom is not techno-friendly, teachers are not dedicated and trained, monitoring strategies of concerned authority is not effective for teaching listening. Recommended solutions include - the students should be proactive and the school administration has to be responsible for making availability of listening equipment and materials. Similarly, the teachers should use various interactive and cooperative activities such as role-play, pair work, group work and communication games using authentic materials such as English films, favourite songs, funny short stories, some exciting programmes on radio, TV or the internet for the effectual teaching of listening.","PeriodicalId":416929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nelta","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128890648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of NeltaPub Date : 2019-11-30DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27684
Haris C. Adhikari
{"title":"Bridging conceptual gaps for smooth teaching and learning","authors":"Haris C. Adhikari","doi":"10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27684","url":null,"abstract":"This paper primarily aims to reflect on the majority of my students’ inadequacies of using ‘remembering’, ‘understanding’, ‘analyzing’ and ‘evaluating’, four major levels of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (2001), a helpful reading and writing technique included in Kathmandu University’s first year first semester undergraduate compulsory English and professional communication course, of course for the benefit of all the concerned ones—especially for those from the Asian regions whose communication in English reveals a number of linguistic and technical problems. The focus is more on the level of analysis, because the students had more problems regarding this level. My purpose is to make the level of analysis simpler, more systematic and practical, outlining its nature and various forms, and the inadequacies involved on the part of (the) students, analyzing alongside an analysis part of an assignment submitted by one of my students and a short, well known-about text taken from elsewhere. In doing so, I resort to certain assumptions of a body of theories, namely that of social support theory, reader response theory, and Gestalt theory, apart from my (experimental) experiences of teaching the Taxonomy. These assumptions and experiences gave me insights into how contextually analytical responses are safer when compared to shallow critical responses. I found that shorter texts are more helpful in introducing students to the Taxonomy. I also came across realizations about the importance of balance between textual contexts and extensions of mind, about the effectiveness and beauty of heuristic as well as holistic approaches with emphasis on bridging upon the basic conceptual gaps because of which inadequacies and difficulties arise.","PeriodicalId":416929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nelta","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114976905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of NeltaPub Date : 2019-11-30DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27682
Renu Singh
{"title":"Students’ perspectives on technology integration in ELT","authors":"Renu Singh","doi":"10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27682","url":null,"abstract":"Technology integration in English language teaching (ELT) has changed the mode of classroom instruction at school. The use of modern technologies at public secondary schools within Nepal is a big challenge.This study explores students’ perspectives on technology integration in English language teaching at public secondary schools in Nepal. The study was framed under qualitative research design that used focus group discussion to gather data from the six groups of students in the Kathmandu valley. The thematic analysis of their views under different categories revealed that the ELT with technology integration is a dire need for developing students’ language proficiency. Additionally, the results show that the learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) are aware of the advantages of teaching with technology but the insufficient ICT infrastructure at school and the lack of EFL teachers’ professional skills and knowledge of integrating technology into their daily pedagogical practices are main obstacles of technology integration. The study points out implications for ELT practitioners, researchers, policy makers of ICT in education along with stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":416929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nelta","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125852687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of NeltaPub Date : 2019-11-30DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27683
Pitamber Paudel
{"title":"University teachers’ attitudes towards English language curriculum of M.Ed. semester system","authors":"Pitamber Paudel","doi":"10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27683","url":null,"abstract":"A curriculum changes as per the concurrent philosophical and methodological changes of a country. This study investigates the Tribhuvan University (TU) teachers’ attitudes towards the current Masters level English language (semester system) curriculum. In order to achieve this goal, explanatory sequential mixed research design was employed. Forty-five English language teachers from both constituent and affiliated campuses of Tribhuvan University, Nepal, were purposively selected. The research shows that the university English teachers had positive attitude towards the current curriculum for its input and process. However, they did not like the context of its design and the implementation process. This implies that the policy maker and curriculum designers should make an analysis of the context in terms of situation and the needs of the stakeholders before selecting the courses and their contents so that the curriculum can be effectively implemented.","PeriodicalId":416929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nelta","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132082645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of NeltaPub Date : 2019-11-30DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27686
Deepika Adhikari
{"title":"Status of English language teaching in secondary level under different school interventions","authors":"Deepika Adhikari","doi":"10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27686","url":null,"abstract":"Language is the primary medium of communication and expression of thoughts and ideas. In India, there are two official languagesHindi and English. English has been occupying a dominant position since independence. There have been serious attempts to integrate English language in the school curriculum since 1980s. In the schools of West Bengal, English is taught either as a first language or second language. The present study intends to find the status of teaching English language in the secondary schools of Siliguri (West Bengal) where the schools with three different boards, ICSE, CBSE and state boards are chosen. The sample consisted of 50 teachers and 50 students from a total of 25 schools. A survey method and observation inventory was used for collection of data. The conclusion is that English language teachers need to abreast themselves with the latest developments in the context of language teaching. The co-operation from the school, teachers, parents and students yield fruitful results in improving the status of English language teaching.","PeriodicalId":416929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nelta","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126850711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of NeltaPub Date : 2019-11-30DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27692
S. Poudel
{"title":"Code-Mixing and literal translation in Nepal’s English newspapers","authors":"S. Poudel","doi":"10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27692","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the texts published in English newspapers in Nepal to find out the code mixing and literal translation of Nepali language. For the study, the data were taken from the secondary sources. Mainly two English newspapers, The Himalayan Times and The Kathmandu Post published in Nepal were taken as the sources of the data purposively. Code mixing is the use of code from one language into another language in the course of using it in communication. Similarly, literal translation is translating the source language text into the target language text with the equivalence of structure, lexicon and morphology. Such code mixing and literal translation brings variation into target language. The study found out that the codes, which are associated with religion, particular culture, local context and situations are mixed with English language. Similarly, the popular expressions among the Nepalese context were found literally translated.","PeriodicalId":416929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nelta","volume":"8 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123803622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of NeltaPub Date : 2019-11-30DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27694
Chetnath Panta
{"title":"English language teachers’ perspectives on learner autonomy","authors":"Chetnath Panta","doi":"10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v24i1-2.27694","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the perceptions and practices of the English language teachers to create autonomous learning environment in the context of Nepalese secondary EFL classroom. The study further unpacks the role of the teachers in creating better learning opportunities for learners so as to promote learner autonomy. The research is based on interpretive paradigm to look into kaleidoscopic view of variety of perspectives, classroom practices and emerging dilemmas of the teachers. Based on the findings, the research showcases the deep rooted social practices and myths to bring tensions in the relation between teachers and students. The school environment has to be homely and autonomy supportive. It seems pertinent to think over the concept of learner autonomy globally and act locally adapting the global trends and issues of teaching and learning, and at the same time, there is a dire need to remain mindful of the translated concept of learner autonomy thinking contextually","PeriodicalId":416929,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nelta","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116941238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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