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Research paper thumbnail of Correction Codes: A Tool for Enhancing Writing Qualities

Journal of NELTA, 2024

Writing is essential for documenting ideas, feelings and information. Students submit assigned ta... more Writing is essential for documenting ideas, feelings and information. Students submit assigned tasks in written forms, which teachers mark for errors using codes to prevent their recurrence in the future. The symbols teachers use to provide written feedback should help improve student writing. However, most students' fail to understand such symbols. Consequently, they pay less attention to the feedback, and continue to make similar mistakes in their subsequent writings. This qualitative study aimed to explore various forms of codes used by 10 English language teachers teaching in grades 11/12 in diff erent schools in Kavrepalanchok district of Bagmati Province. The study found that students did not understand most of the correction codes used by teachers, nor did they contact the teachers morever for clarifi cation. This lack of interaction hindered the eff ectiveness of these codes in improving writing. Teachers did not orient students about such codes, and most students did not seek help to understand them. It was recommended that the teacher use context-based techniques for scoring and providing written corrective feedback.

Research paper thumbnail of Vocabulary Instruction: Junk or Bunk

NELTA Bagamti, 2020

Vocabulary, the flesh of a language and the most powerful carrier of message, is naturally diffic... more Vocabulary, the flesh of a language and the most powerful carrier of message, is naturally difficult to teach. Teachers, especially in Nepal, encounter problems in performing instructional tasks despite their cogency. Moreover, the emerging doctrines have kept struggling since long to overcome such growing chic in lexicon sphere. As Vocabulary is the glue for holding stories, ideas and content together for making comprehension accessible and intelligible, the language practitioners should possess a strong knowledge of vocabulary to accrete intuition going through vast English literature, and communicate their ideas to others. For this noble task, many scholars have conducted researches, and proposed myriad ideas. Despite the availability of varied researches on effective vocabulary teaching, a tremendous need for more efficient vocabulary instruction at all grade levels has remained the cry of the day. This paper thus mainly aims to shade light on current approaches, and propose practical ways to teach vocabulary relevantly along with the difficulties English vocabulary holds.

Research paper thumbnail of Textese and its Impact on the English Language

Journal of NELTA

The growing interests of college students towards using Facebook (FB) features have invented newe... more The growing interests of college students towards using Facebook (FB) features have invented newer texts for a faster online communication. Such unique textese and digitalese reside in their minds and hearts. Many scholars, therefore, currently advocate for exploring a new avenue to adapt certain linguistic contents (LCs) of FB in promoting and developing a language. Amidst, the LCs of such social networking sites allow users to entertain better interactions. Nevertheless, their indiscriminate use exerts threats to the existing body of the English Language (EL). In this context, this qualitative study tries to reconnoitre typical characteristics of textese based on purposively selected observation data from FBs of 20 college students and documentary data from published journals or books. It further analyzes how such contents affect phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic levels of the EL. The study concludes that the LCs impose problems to the EL; however, they require in...

Research paper thumbnail of Textese and its Impact on the English Language

Journal of NELTA, 2021

The growing interests of college students towards using Facebook (FB) features have invented newe... more The growing interests of college students towards using Facebook (FB) features have invented newer texts for a faster online communication. Such unique textese and digitalese reside in their minds and hearts. Many scholars, therefore, currently advocate for exploring a new avenue to adapt certain linguistic contents (LCs) of FB in promoting and developing a language. Amidst, the LCs of such social networking sites allow users to entertain better interactions. Nevertheless, their indiscriminate use exerts threats to the existing body of the English Language (EL). In this context, this qualitative study tries to reconnoitre typical characteristics of textese based on purposively selected observation data from FBs of 20 college students and documentary data from published journals or books. It further analyzes how such contents aff ect phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic levels of the EL. The study concludes that the LCs impose problems to the EL; however, they require integrations into current form of the EL without causing serious problems because of their infl uences on netizens.

Research paper thumbnail of Correction Codes: A Tool for Enhancing Writing Qualities

Journal of NELTA, 2024

Writing is essential for documenting ideas, feelings and information. Students submit assigned ta... more Writing is essential for documenting ideas, feelings and information. Students submit assigned tasks in written forms, which teachers mark for errors using codes to prevent their recurrence in the future. The symbols teachers use to provide written feedback should help improve student writing. However, most students' fail to understand such symbols. Consequently, they pay less attention to the feedback, and continue to make similar mistakes in their subsequent writings. This qualitative study aimed to explore various forms of codes used by 10 English language teachers teaching in grades 11/12 in diff erent schools in Kavrepalanchok district of Bagmati Province. The study found that students did not understand most of the correction codes used by teachers, nor did they contact the teachers morever for clarifi cation. This lack of interaction hindered the eff ectiveness of these codes in improving writing. Teachers did not orient students about such codes, and most students did not seek help to understand them. It was recommended that the teacher use context-based techniques for scoring and providing written corrective feedback.

Research paper thumbnail of Vocabulary Instruction: Junk or Bunk

NELTA Bagamti, 2020

Vocabulary, the flesh of a language and the most powerful carrier of message, is naturally diffic... more Vocabulary, the flesh of a language and the most powerful carrier of message, is naturally difficult to teach. Teachers, especially in Nepal, encounter problems in performing instructional tasks despite their cogency. Moreover, the emerging doctrines have kept struggling since long to overcome such growing chic in lexicon sphere. As Vocabulary is the glue for holding stories, ideas and content together for making comprehension accessible and intelligible, the language practitioners should possess a strong knowledge of vocabulary to accrete intuition going through vast English literature, and communicate their ideas to others. For this noble task, many scholars have conducted researches, and proposed myriad ideas. Despite the availability of varied researches on effective vocabulary teaching, a tremendous need for more efficient vocabulary instruction at all grade levels has remained the cry of the day. This paper thus mainly aims to shade light on current approaches, and propose practical ways to teach vocabulary relevantly along with the difficulties English vocabulary holds.

Research paper thumbnail of Textese and its Impact on the English Language

Journal of NELTA

The growing interests of college students towards using Facebook (FB) features have invented newe... more The growing interests of college students towards using Facebook (FB) features have invented newer texts for a faster online communication. Such unique textese and digitalese reside in their minds and hearts. Many scholars, therefore, currently advocate for exploring a new avenue to adapt certain linguistic contents (LCs) of FB in promoting and developing a language. Amidst, the LCs of such social networking sites allow users to entertain better interactions. Nevertheless, their indiscriminate use exerts threats to the existing body of the English Language (EL). In this context, this qualitative study tries to reconnoitre typical characteristics of textese based on purposively selected observation data from FBs of 20 college students and documentary data from published journals or books. It further analyzes how such contents affect phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic levels of the EL. The study concludes that the LCs impose problems to the EL; however, they require in...

Research paper thumbnail of Textese and its Impact on the English Language

Journal of NELTA, 2021

The growing interests of college students towards using Facebook (FB) features have invented newe... more The growing interests of college students towards using Facebook (FB) features have invented newer texts for a faster online communication. Such unique textese and digitalese reside in their minds and hearts. Many scholars, therefore, currently advocate for exploring a new avenue to adapt certain linguistic contents (LCs) of FB in promoting and developing a language. Amidst, the LCs of such social networking sites allow users to entertain better interactions. Nevertheless, their indiscriminate use exerts threats to the existing body of the English Language (EL). In this context, this qualitative study tries to reconnoitre typical characteristics of textese based on purposively selected observation data from FBs of 20 college students and documentary data from published journals or books. It further analyzes how such contents aff ect phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic levels of the EL. The study concludes that the LCs impose problems to the EL; however, they require integrations into current form of the EL without causing serious problems because of their infl uences on netizens.