Errors Committed by Tharu Speaking Students in Free Writing

Abstract

The present study entitled Errors Committed by Tharu Speaking Students in Free Writing aims to find out the errors on tense, subject-verb agreement, preposition, articles, and spelling committed by secondary level students in free composition. To carry out the study, I selected two schools of Udayapur district through judgmental sampling procedure 30 students from these two schools. Altogether 60 students were selected, a set of test items consisting of three free writing questions was the tool for the data collection. The first item was essay writing, the second item was paragraph writing and third item was letter writing. As for the major findings of the study, the total errors committed by the students were 378. The students committed 29 (7.67%) errors in tense, 58(41.79%) errors in agreement, 8 (2.11%) errors in preposition, 11(2.91%) errors in article, and 172(45.50°0) errors in spelling. The students committed the highest number of errors in spelling and the lowest number of errors in preposition. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic in which 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 the key terms are included. The second chapter covers the review of related theoretical literature, review of related empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study which includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategies, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Likewise, the fourth chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of results. It also includes analysis of data, interpretation of results and summary of the findings. Fifth chapter deals with conclusions and recommendations followed by references and appendices. The recommendation is subsumed under policy related, practice related and further research related respectively.