Teaching Reported Speech

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  • Dan Raj Regmi Department of Linguistics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v14i1.3101

Keywords:

Reported speech, Tstructures, Grammatical items

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the major errors in reported speech made by the learners of Grade XII of Management stream and put forward some practical suggestions for the remedies of those errors. There are a few contributions made by the teachers as well as others interested in teaching reported speech in English to the students speaking languages other than English. Sharma (2002) deals with teaching reported speech in English, which is important for building insights on how effectively we can help the students speaking Nepali master the structural patterns of reported speech in English.

Key words: reported speech, tstructures, grammatical items

DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v14i1.3101

 Journal of NELTA Vol.14, No 1&2, 2009 December Page: 132-137

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Author Biography

Dan Raj Regmi, Department of Linguistics

Associate Professor and Head of Central Department Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Dr. Regmi has been teaching linguistics for over two decades. He completed PhD in linguistics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, writing a dissertation on Bhujel, an endangered and previously ndescribed Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal within the framework of Functional-typological grammar. He has authored and coauthored a number of English grammars and practice books based on the communicative approach and other teaching materials for school and campus level students. Dr. Regmi has a number of articles and papers published in various journals.

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Regmi, D. R. (2010). Teaching Reported Speech. Journal of NELTA, 14(1), 132–137. https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v14i1.3101

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Vol 14, No 1&2 2009

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