Proficiency in the use of articles of grade ten distinction scorers
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2016
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The researcher himself as a second language learner of English has been feeling difficulty in grasping English article system since his schooling till date. Similarly, as a secondary English teacher, he often noticed his students, high scorers and low scorers alike in the overall proficiency in English, using articles haphazardly. In this connection the present research entitled ‘Proficiency in the Use of Articles of Grade Ten Distinction Scorers' was carried out with the objectives to finding out the proficiency in the use of articles of grade ten distinction scorers of private and public schools of Chitwan district and compare and correlate their article proficiency scores with their overall proficiency scores in English of their one of the previous terminal examinations.For this research, the data obtained from both primary and secondary sources were studied and interpreted. Thirty grade ten distinction scorers in the overall proficiency in English were selected using both non-random quota sampling and judgmental sampling methods and administered the hundred-mark objective test to elicit the data. The collected data were studied applying simple statistical tools and interpreted descriptively after editing and codification.The study showed the sampled students were not as proficient in the use of articles as they were in the overall proficiency in English. The average score of overall proficiency in English was found 85.03 while it was only 70.43 in the use of articles. Similarly, only 5 students, i.e. 16.66 percent out of 30 distinction scorers in the overall proficiency in English were found scoring with distinction in the use of Articles.21 number of students, i.e. 70% of the sample population scoredfirst division in the use of articles. And four students, i.e., 13.33 % out of 30 sample sizes were found scoring second division in the use of articles. The spread of scores, i.e. standard deviation of the article scores was found 9.07 while it was 3.86 of the overall scores in English. The correlation between overall English scores and the scores in the use of articles was found 0.46.
The research study has been organized on five chapters. The first chapter comprises of background information, statement of the problems, objectives, etc. The second chapter includes the literature review. Similarly, research methodology, study design, data analysis and interpretation procedures, etc. are discussed in the third chapter. The penultimate chapter includes analysis of data and interpretation of the result and summary. In the last chapter, conclusion and recommendations are presented.
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Teaching grammar, Secondary school curriculum