Strategies Adopted by The Learners to Tackle their Errors

Abstract

The present study "Strategies Adopted by the Learners to Tackle their Errors" aimed at finding out different strategies adopted by the learners to tackle their errors. Before exploring different strategies, various types of errors have been described and classified, which were committed by the learners in free composition. By the use of random sampling procedure, I have selected forty students of grade nine studying at Pushpasadan Secondary Boarding School, Kirtipur, Kathmandu. For that purpose, initially, I prepared a test item on free composition and administered the test items to the students of grade nine. After that, I identified and classified the errors committed by the students. In order to explore the strategies to tackle the errors, I prepared the questionnaire for individual student on the basis of the errors they made in test items. The study shows that students of grade nine committed various types of errors in free composition. It was found that the errors are committed in the use of articles, spelling, preposition, tense and agreement. While observing the strategies adopted by the learners to tackle their errors committed in free composition, two types of strategies namely avoidance and caution have been found. This study is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter deals with general introduction of the study. It also consists of review of the related literature, objectives of the study and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the methodology; i.e. how the research was carried out. The study

is based on both primary and secondary sources of data, population of the study, sample population, sampling procedure, tools of the data collection and limitations of the study have also been included. Chapter three deals with an analysis and interpretation of the collected data. Chapter four includes findings and recommendations of the study. On the basis of the analyzed data findings have been listed and in turn, on the basis of these findings some recommendations have been made.