International Journal of Graduate Research and Review

90-95

Authors: Bisheswar Prasad Yadav, Santosh Rasaily, Pramod Wagle, Nabina B.K., Suvash Devkota

Ground nut (Arachis hypogaea L), considered as king of oilseed crop, is a tropical legume mainly grown to produce oil. In context to Nepal, ground nut is used as vegetable oil, confectionery and snacks. In the initial period, ground nut was only confined to the kitchen garden however, in recent year groundnut is growing popularity. Ground nut is grown in upland in rain fed condition during rainy season and it is also grown in river basin as well. Nepal still lacks mega varieties with high yield, high protein and oil content. In oder to find out the promising variety, Oilseed research program, NARC has conducted series of trial (Observational nursery trial, Initial yield trial, coordinated varietal trial and Participatory varietal selection) with the introduced foreign genotypes in Randomly Complete Block Design. Through the series of different trials conducted depicted promising genotypes (ICGV 97079, ICGV 07220 and ICGV 07222) from the Coordinated Varietal Trial may be future research material to identify the much-needed variety to meet the groundnut demand of the country. For the present condition, genotypes IGCV 97079 with the potential yield of 2500 kg/ha to 2800kg /ha with 47 % of Protein content, 34 % of oil content and has been identified as the much needed promising line and proposal has been send for the register and release as variety for the farmer production.

103-111

Authors: Gemechis Denu, Zeleke Teshome, Tekle Ferede

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of contextualized grammar instruction (CGI) on students’ paragraph writing achievement and students’ perception towards the instruction. In order to attain the purpose, two intact groups randomly assigned to treatment and comparison groups were involved in the study respectively. The embedded design was employed in the study since it was mainly conducted using quantitative data gathered through tests and questionnaire before and after the intervention. Accordingly, two groups of students were selected from the total of seven sections of Grade 11 of Gatema Secondary School students. In this study, therefore; a sequential mixed-method research approaches (QUAN qual) in which quantitative data are followed by qualitative data was utilized. Hence, test, questionnaire, self-reflection journal writing research tools were employed. In data analysis, the study employed paired sample t-test; independent sample t-test and some descriptive statistic (mean and standard deviation). Hence, it was confirmed that there was no statistically significant difference among the two groups before the intervention as the t-test value, (t =-.843; p>.05). p=.402 at .05 level of significance at.05 level of significance, however; after the treatment group was taught for about eight weeks using the intervention manual, both treatment and comparison groups were given a post intervention, paragraph writing performance to see if any significant difference is seen because of the treatment. To this respect, in the findings of this study (t=9.594, df=72, p=.000, which is less than 0.05). The study found that contextualized grammar instruction intervention attributes to students’ paragraph writing achievement and their perception. Therefore, this is an important input for the curriculum designers, English language teachers to put emphasis on contextualized grammar instruction in teaching and learning procedures so that the students manage their paragraph writing skills would be improved.