A study on English Language Writing Proficiency of Gradeeight In Chitwan

Abstract

The research entitled "A study on English Language writing proficiency of grade Eight in Chitwan" is an attempt to identify students' writing proficiency of Lower Secondary Level (Class eight). In order to find out the writing proficiency, the researcher studied different course books,work books and textbooks related to class 8 to collect the data and then prepared 4 different test tasks. The test tasks were measured under the criteria of students' performance under the layout, spelling, grammar and punctuation marks. No research as yet has been done in this level to see writing proficiently of the students.For the study, four community based and four private schools of Chitwan District were selected. The total population was 80,10 students from each school were randomly selected. The data were tabulated, analyzed and interpreted descriptively using simple statistical tools. After analyzing the data the researcher found that the students' of community based schools were weaker than students of private schools' students in writing students committed many errors in grammar, i.e. sub-verbagreement. In the some manner,urban area students were found better than rural area students and comparatively, girls' writing proficiency was found better than boys. The researcher also found that students' guided writing proficiency was found better than free writing proficiency. The study contains altogether four chapters.The first chapter deals with the introduction.It consists of general background,introduction of writing, components of writing, stages of development of writing, the essential characteristics of good writing, cohesion,organization, spelling,punctuation, capitalization, writing an overview of writing, correction of students' writing script,review of the related literature, objectives of the study, significance of the study and definition of the terms. Chapter two introduces the methodology adopted for the study. It encompasses sources of data, sampling procedure, tools and processes of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the data. The chapter deals with the proficiency in terms of schools, area, sex and item. In this chapter the proficiency of the students were tabulated. Actually the total writing proficiency in each school,area,sex and items were calculated using simple statistical tools. Chapter four presents the summary of findings and recommendations.