Spoken Proficiency of the students in the Language function of describing

Abstract

This study was carried out entitled "spoken proficiency of the students in the language function of describing".The main objective of this Study was to find out the spoken proficiency of the students in the language function of describing. This is a survey research and students who were studying in grade XI and X in public schools of Kalikot district ware randomly selected for the study. The sample population of the study consisted of 80 students from five schools. Sixteen students from each school were selected and there were equal number of boys and girls,i.e. 8 boys and 8 girls. A set of questions was prepared consisting of 20 full marks as are search tool. The researcher visited the five sample schools of Kalikot district and the questions were administrated to 80 students and their responses were collected and analyzed.It was found that average proficiency of the students to be satisfactory in describing function.They scored 59.16%marks on average. Among the five sample schools,Nandadevi Higher Secondary school was found to be the best performing one where as Kalika Higher Secondary school was the lowest performing one.The students were found to be very good in describing use, satisfactory in describing person and place. But they were poor in describing process. This study is divided into four chapters. Each chapter is divided in to different sub-chapters. The first chapter deals with general background of the study, introduction of language, language functions, ELT situation, review of the related literature,objectives of the study and significance of the study.The second chapter deals with the methodology, data gathering procedure and limitations of the study.It mainly deals with the sources of data collection,tools of data collection and process of data collection. The third chapter deals with analysis, interpretation and presentation of the data.The result obtained in the study has been stated systematically using simple statistical tools of percentage, average to make the analysis clear.The analysis has been carried out in comparative form and under the different headings: school-wise,gender-wise, item-wise and class-wise.Chapter four includes findings and recommendations with the help of analysis and interpretation.The final part of the thesis includes references and appendices.