Proficiency of Chepang Students in Free Writing Skill at Lower Secondary Level
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Department of English Education
Abstract
This research entitled Proficiency of Chepang Students in Free writing at
Lower Secondary Level has been carried out to identify the proficiency of
lower secondary level students of Dhading District especially in free writing
compositions. This study looks into the content, formats, prepositions and uses
of mechanics of writing in holistic way. To address the objectives of the study,
forty students were selected from community school as a sample by using nonrandom
sampling
of
Dhading
District.
This
research
was
carried
out
using
both
the
primary
and
secondary
sources
of
data.
The
data
was
analyzed
and
interpreted
on
the
basis
of
test
items
consisting
of
dialogue
writing,
paragraph
writing,
essay
writing
and
letter
writing
which
were
the
tools
for
data
collection.
It
was
found
that
the
performance
of
students
in
free
writing
was
satisfactory.
Among
different
types
of
test
items
like
paragraph
writing,
essay
writing,letter
writing
and
dialogue
writing,
letter
writing
was
found
to
be
more
difficult
areaas
in
comparison
to
other
items.
This study comprises five chapters. The first chapter presents the background of
the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions,
significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of
the key terms. The second chapter consists of the review of related theoretical
literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the study and
conceptual framework. In the same way, chapter three includes design of the
study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data,
data collection procedure, data analysis procedure and ethical considerations.
The fourth chapter deals with analysis of data and interpretation of results
where data have been analyzed in terms of different headings like Holistic
analysis, school wise analysis, items wise analysis and findings of the study.
The final chapter deals with findings, conclusion and recommendations which
are summed up from the analysis and interpretation of the collected data for the
purpose of research. The references and appendices have been included in the
last part of the thesis.