Proficiency of Chepang Students in Free Writing Skill at Lower Secondary Level

Abstract

This research entitled Proficiency of Chepang Students in Free writing at Lower Secondary Level has been carried out to identify the proficiency of lower secondary level students of Dhading District especially in free writing compositions. This study looks into the content, formats, prepositions and uses of mechanics of writing in holistic way. To address the objectives of the study, forty students were selected from community school as a sample by using nonrandom sampling of Dhading District. This research was carried out using both

the primary and secondary sources of data. The data was analyzed and

interpreted on the basis of test items consisting of dialogue writing, paragraph

writing, essay writing and letter writing which were the tools for data collection.

It was found that the performance of students in free writing was satisfactory.

Among different types of test items like paragraph writing, essay writing,letter

writing and dialogue writing, letter writing was found to be more difficult

areaas in comparison to other items.

This study comprises five chapters. The first chapter presents the background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter consists of the review of related theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the study and conceptual framework. In the same way, chapter three includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedure, data analysis procedure and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter deals with analysis of data and interpretation of results where data have been analyzed in terms of different headings like Holistic analysis, school wise analysis, items wise analysis and findings of the study. The final chapter deals with findings, conclusion and recommendations which are summed up from the analysis and interpretation of the collected data for the purpose of research. The references and appendices have been included in the last part of the thesis.