Ability of grade nine students in English speaking
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2016
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Department of English Education
Abstract
The present study entitled "A Study on the Speaking Ability of Grade Nine Students exmined the speaking ability of grade Nine students of Ramechhap district in terms of pronunciation, accuracy, fluency and vocabulary. This study was carried out based on the primary sources of data. The sample of population of the study consisted of forty students of grade nine from four schools of Ramechhap district. This study was carried out by using a survey research design. The required data were collected by administering test items such as interview and picture descriptions. After the analysis and interoperation of collected data, it was found that students' performance was not satisfactory, mostly used mother tongue.
This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter presents the introduction of the study in terms of background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of study and operational definition of the key terms. The second Chapter consists of review of related literature and conceptual framework. Under this chapter, there are different sub headings: review of the related theoretical literature, language teaching and learning, English language teaching, speaking, teaching speaking skills, testing speaking, speaking ability , components of speaking skill, review of related empirical literature implications of the review for study and conceptual framework .
Third chapter presents the methods and procedure of the study, under this chapter design and method of the study, population sample and sampling procedure study area / field, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation procedure.
Chapter four presents the finding and interpretation of colleted data in different tables of different schools. Analysis and interpretation of the results, findings / results, the criteria of gradation, analysis and interpretation of results, analysis of collected data through test items, overall ability of the grade nine students, analysis and interpretations of the data in terms of schools, individual analysis of speaking ability of school 'A', individual analysis of speaking ability of school 'B', individual analysis of speaking ability of school 'C', individual analysis of speaking ability of School 'D' and analysis of aspect of ability . Chapter five presents the summary, conclusion and recommendations of the study in different levels, policy related, practice related and further research related. Finally, I included the references and appendices which are necessary for the validation of the research.
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Individual analysis, English speaking