Performance of students in free writing in EFL at secondary level
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The present study entitled Performance of Students in Free Writing in EFL at Secondary Level was carried to evaluate the performace of secondary level students in free writing activites. I used survey research design to accomplish this study. The population of the study were students studying at secondary level in community schools at Kailash Rural Municipality, Makawanpur. Among them I selected forty students as a sample through simple non random sampling procedure. A set of questionnaire and a test item were used as the main tools for data collection. The findings of the study showed that the overall competence of the students in free writing is satisfactory as the average result obtained by the students in free writing was 55.10%. The students scored 3.5 in paragraph writing, 3.35 in dialogue writing, 3.16 in short story writing, 4.03 in email writing, 4.63 in book/movie review writing, 4.13 in brochure writing and 4.75 in essay writing as the mean score. The findings of the study also showed that the students are good in essay writing, paragraph writing, review writing and dialogue writing but weak in email writing, brochure writing and short story writing. Similarly, while analyzing the writing based on testing parameters, the students were found good in the content but not in organizational part, grammar and mechanics.
This thesis has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter gives an overview of the thesis along with background and context of the study, purposes of doing the research, significance of the research, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter contains the relevant literature review, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework.It shows how other researchers found audio-visual aids significant for teaching and learning language in their studies. On the other hand, the third chapter deals with the methods and procedures followed to collect data for this study and instruments used to collect the data. Similarly, the fourth chapter encompasses analysis and interpretation of the data. It presents the responses of the participants about the issues of the research. Finally, the fifth chapter provides the discussion on the result of the study that was analyzed in Chapter Four. It also contains recommendations for the policy level, practice level and further research level. Finally, in the final section, references and appendices are included.