Women for Peace and Democracy – Nepal

The study focuses on how teachers use language and power to share knowledge, specifically concerning the power language used in Nepali ELT classrooms. The study's primary goals are to analyze language power as it reveals itself in speech acts and examine how teachers' use of language power affects students' attitudes toward learning. The primary source of data for this study was the teaching activities carried out in the district of Nawalparasi, Nepal. Depending on attributes including gender, job position, and length of service, four public school teachers—two male and two female—were chosen. Using a qualitative ethnographic study approach, the teacher and students' interactions and language use are examined. The data is further evaluated using Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, which comprises description, interpretation, and explanation. The findings suggest that teachers are imposing speech act forms on their students and that this power may have an impact on how they feel about learning. However, students are also motivated and become more engaged in class when teachers express their pleasure in speech act forms. Therefore, teachers should incorporate humanistic teaching into their teaching and learning activities, taking into account the potential problems of using language in an ELT classroom.

Nepalese banks are using modern technologies to prompt their services and enlarging customer satisfaction. Realizing this fact, this study aims to identify different factors impacting on behavioral intention to use mobile banking. Extended Technology Acceptance Model was used to extract constructs and validate the findings. This study is based on descriptive analytical research design. A survey of 200 banking customers was done in Kawasoti Municipality, Nepal. Structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data and collected data was analyzed using IBM SPSS 20 version. It was found that perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, trust and facilitating condition statistically affect behavioral intention to use mobile banking. The result of this study facilitates mobile banking providers for advancing different strategies that help for expanding the usage rate of mobile banking by current users and converting non users in to users.