Errors commited by Rai learners of English in speaking in grade nine
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Department of English Education
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.