Students' Performance on English Guided Writing

Abstract

The present research work entitled Students' Performance on English Guided Writing is an attempt to find out the students' performance on English guided writing in terms of content, grammar (subject verb agreement and tense), format, spelling, vocabulary and arrangement. The researcher selected 30 students from the two schools of Kathmandu district through purposive nonrandom sampling procedure. The test items were used as the main tool for data collection. The four test items were story writing, writing news, writing biography and condolence writing. There were 30 students as a sample from the two selected schools consisting of 15 from each school. The test items were of 80 full marks. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted with the help of tables, statistical tools, percentage and average. Holistic analysis, school-wise analysis and item-wise analysis are done separately. Holistic analysis shows that the performance of 30 students of the two selected schools on the four test items was satisfactory. Likewise, school-wise analysis shows that Shanti Nikunja Secondary School obtained high rank. The result was found better than Balsewa Secondary School which obtained low rank. Similarly, item-wise analysis reflects that the students obtained highest marks in condolence writing. The students obtained the lowest marks in writing news report. Similarly, students were found erroneous in selecting vocabulary, writing content, using tense and arranging sentences. It was found better in using format, spelling and subject, verb agreement. This thesis has been divided into five different chapters. The first chapter deals with 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. Similarly, the second chapter consists of the review of the theoretical literature, review of the empirical literature, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. 10 The third chapter deals with the methodological aspect under which design and method of the study , population, sample and sampling procedure, study area, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter focuses on the analysis of the data and interpretation of results. Similarly, the fifth chapter of the study consists of and recommendation of the whole study. References and appendices are included at the end of the study.