Writing Proficience of secondary level student's

Abstract

The present research work entitled "Writing Proficiency of Secondary Level Students" is an attempt to find out the students' performance on English free writing in terms of content, grammar, format, spelling, vocabulary and arrangement. The researcher selected 40 students from four schools from Bhaktapur through purposive non-random sampling procedure. The test items were used as the main tool for data collection. The four test items were essay, news paper article, story writing and conversation writing. The test items were of 50 full marks. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted with the help of tables, statistical tools, percentage and average. Holistic analysis, school-wise analysis and item-wise analysis are done separately. Holistic analysis shows that the performance of students from four selected schools on the three test items. Likewise, school-wise analysis shows that Araniko Secondary School obtained high rank. The result was found good. Similarly, item-wise analysis reflects that the students obtained highest marks and lowest marks in free writing. Similarly, students were found to errors in selecting vocabulary, writing content, and arranging sentences. It was found good in using format and spelling. This thesis has been divided into five different chapters. The first chapter deals with 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 the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter consists of the review for the theoretical literature, review of the empirical literature, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methodological aspect under which design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling procedure, study area, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter focuses on the analysis of the data and interpretation of results. Similarly, the fifth chapter of the study consists findings, conclusions and recommendations of the whole study. References and appendices are included at the end of the study.