A Study on the Use of Verbsin Free Writing by the Students of Grade 10

Abstract

This thesis attempts to determine and analyze the performance anderrors in the use of verbs in free writing by the students who are studying ingrade 10. Toaccomplish the objectives of he study, the researcher collecteddata from the 80students (20 from each school) studying in four governmentschools of Kathmandu district by using non-random, judgemental samplingprocedure. For collecting data, a test consisting of three subjective questionsfor free writing with the limitation of words and time was administered tothe students. The students were intended to write some paragraphs on thegiven topics. The free writing of the students was analyzed on the basis ofthe use of verbs. Accordingly, the findings were concluded. The major findings of he study are: tenth graders were able to use63.68% verbs correctly in free writing, the students of Tarun SecondarySchool showed the highest performance and the students of ManoharSecondary School committed the highest number of errors among theselected schools, male students showed a better performance in free writingthan female students, the highest number of errors was found in using tensesetc. This dissertation consists of four chapters. Chapter one introduces thestudy with general background i.e. overview on English LanguageEducation, Writing, Free writing, Error analysis, Grammar etc. This chapteralso deals with the review of the related literature, the objectives andsignificance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology of the study. It comprisessources of data, population of the study, tools and process for data collectionand limitation of the study. Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of data usingdifferent tables, percentage, etc. Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations.Eventually, references and appendices are given. The appendix part includes research tool and other information.