Errors commited by Rai learners of English in speaking in grade nine

Abstract

The present thesis entitled Errors Committed by Rai Learners of English in Speaking in Grade Nine aimed to identify the different errors committed by the Rai learners of English in speaking. Keeping the objectives in consideration, thirty Rai learners of Grade IX from three different community aided schools of same Bhojpur district were sampled through purposive nonrandom sample procedure. The test items comprising a set of questions and a set of pictures for the students and the structured interview for the English

teachers of the schools were tools of data collection. After the analysis and interpretation of raw data, it was found that Rai learners of English speaking in Grade IX commit phonological errors, morphological errors, lexical errors,

grammatical errors and syntactical errors. They commit phonological errors due to lack of knowledge of English pronunciation or English phonology.

Similarly, they commit morphological errors due to lack of knowledge of

English morphology or lack of exposures of English morphemes. They commit

lexical errors mainly due to speaker‟s mother tongue or lack of English

lexemes in related situations. Similarly, they commit grammatical errors due to lack of proper knowledge of English grammar. They generalize Nepali

grammar in English. They commit syntactical errors mainly due to influence of

Nepali sentence pattern i.e. „S+O+V‟ in English instead of „S+V+O‟. What

can be concluded from this study is that the second language learners of

English generally commit phonological, morphological, lexical, grammatical

and syntactical errors.

The thesis has been divided into five chapters viz. introduction, review of the related literature and conceptual framework, methods and procedures of the study, analysis and interpretation of the result, and conclusion and

recommendations. The first chapter has included information about background

of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, Research

questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational

definitions of key terms. The second chapter has included the review of related theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework of the study. The third chapter has included design and method of the study, population, sample, and sampling strategy, study areas, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures. The fourth chapter has included analysis of data and interpretation of the result and summary of findings. Finally, the fifth chapter has included the conclusions and recommendations of the study. Recommendations have been presented in three levels named policy related, practice related and further research related.