Proficiency of Darai students in free writing

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to find out the proficiency of Darai students in free writing of lower secondary level, in terms of different variables such as punctuation, gender, s-v agreement, preposition and proficiency in cohesion and coherence in their writing. For this study, the researcher took the sample of students studying in grade six, seven and eight from public schools of Gorkha district. The total sample of the study consisted of forty students. The main finding of the study was that the proficiency of the students was not as their standard/not appropriate. Similarly, the proficiency of the grammatical aspects was found better than that of the organization of their writing. Among different types of test items like composition writing, dialogue writing, essay writing and letter writing, essay writing was found to be the most difficult where as dialogue item was found to be the easiest one by all the students. The study has been presented in five chapters; the first chapter consists of general background,of the language and its origin, statement of problem, rationale of the study, objective of the study and significance of the study.The second chapter deals with the review of related literature, objective of the study and x significance of the study. The third chapter describes the research methodology applied in carrying out this research that deals primary sources of the data, secondary sources of the data, tools for collecting of data, process of data collection and delimitations of the study.The forth chapter consists of results and discussion of the study on the basis of item wise analysis of the status of proficiency in process writing, status of total proficiency in each item, comparison of different variables with the average of each item, analysis and interpretation of the total proficiency of the students with the lower secondary norm. In the fifth chapter presents the summary, conclusions and implications of the study.