Effectiveness of Free Writing Strategy in Teaching Writing

Abstract

This research study attempts to find out the effectiveness of free writing strategy in teaching writing. To accomplish this task, all the students of grade 12 of Dewarali Higher Secondary School, Syangja, were selected for the collection of data. In order to achieve the objective, a test item was developed as a tool for data collection. Thirty students of grade twelve were purposively selected as the sample of the study. A pre-test was administered before starting teaching to determine their efficiency at entry point. After dividing students into two groups (as per odd-even ranking), experimental group was taught with due focus on free writing strategy. After four weeks, a post-test was administered to determine the students’ free writing proficiency. Then the results of both pre-test and post-test were compared and analyzed in order to find out the effectiveness of free writing strategy in teaching writing. This thesis mainly includes four chapters. The first chapter provides the introduction of the study. The introduction consists of general background,review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter presents the methodology that includes the sources of data,population of the study, tools for data collection and limitations of the study.The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data. The data have been studied and analyzed in terms of holistic analysis, group wise analysis and item wise analysis. Further an achievement analysis in pre-test,post-test and analysis of marks in terms of central tendencies as well as T-value have been carried out to make the analysis more significant. Similarly, the fourth chapter includes the summary of the findings and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of this study. Finally, the references and the appendices which are necessary for the validation of the research are also presented.