Secondary Level Students’ Performance in Speaking Skill

Abstract

This study entitled Secondary Level Students' Performance in Speaking Skill is an attempt to find out the secondary level students' performance in speaking. The design of the study was survey research. A public school of Dhurkot Rural Municipality of Gulmi district was the sample and the sample population were forty students of that school. The researcher used purposive non-random sampling strategy to collect required data. Questionnaire and pictures were the main tools of data collection. It was found that the most of the students were poor in grammar and pronunciation. They were relatively poorer in vocabulary as they were repeating some of the words time and again to express themselves in the given situations. However, the respondents were good on content. Most of them are able to express themselves on given content even though sometimes they were misleading. Most of the students were not able to pronounce the words correctly. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter encompasses introduction of the study. It incorporates 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. Similarly, chapter two deals with the review of related theoretical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter presents the design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, study area, data collection tools and techniques, sources of data, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical consideration. The fourth chapter consists of the results and discussion and fifth chapter deals with the conclusion and recommendations. The references and appendixes that were used in the thesis follow the fifth chapter.