The Study of Errors Committed by Grade Ten Students in Word Formation

Abstract

This study entitled Errors Committed by Grade ten Students in Word Formation is a survey research .The main purpose of this study was to find out the errors committed by the students in word formation including derivation, inflection and modification. In order to find out the errors of the students, I administrated a test among forty students of four secondary schools of Rautahat district. Ten students were selected from each schools using purposive nonrandom sampling method. The test items included three objective type questions including ten items related to derivational, ten related to inflectional and ten related modification process of word formation. The data collected from test items were analyzed and interpreted by using statistical and descriptive devices. The results of this study showed that the aggregate error of the students were 30.16%. In the same way, the students committed more errors in modification process of word formation which consisted 48.75% in total. Similarly, the students committed fewer errors in inflection process of word formation which consisted 14% in total and 35.62% errors in derivation. Thus, students felt more difficulty in modification and derivation process of word formation and felt easy in inflection process of word formation. In the same way, boys‟ proficiency (53.59%) was better than the girls‟ proficiency (46.40%). This thesis has been organized into five chapters. The first chapter consists of the background of study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, second chapter includes the review of related theoretical literature and review of empirical literature, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. In the same way, third chapter is methods and procedures of the study which includes design and method of study, population sample and sampling strategy, research tools sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures and ethical considerations. In the same way, forth chapter is the data analysis and interpretation of the results. The data has been interpreted in terms of holistic proficiency of the students, school wise analysis of the students‟ proficiency, item wise analysis of the students‟ proficiency and item wise analysis and interpretation of different errors. Finally, fifth chapter consists the findings, conclusion, recommendations and its sub topics; policy related, practice related and further research related. This study ends with the references and appendices.