Causes of Students’ Failure in English

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis was to determine the Causes of students’ failure in English in S.L.C. examination.To accomplish the objective of the study, the researcher collected data from fifty students i.e., S.L.C. successful, group and failure group, five English teachers’, five principals, D.E.O. and Ten parents from Dailekh district using random sampling procedure.To obtain the data, the researcher prepared a questionnaire from both close ended and open ended. Close ended questionnaires were prepared for the students’ facilitate the respondents to choose the best alternative. Open ended questionnaires were prepared for English teachers and interview schedule was conducted for principals, D.E.O.and parents.The attitudes of different groups of people towards the causes of students’ failure in English of Dailekh district was studied and the major findings of this research were recorded such as negligence of the students, lack of professionalism on teachers,low guidance of parents to their children,traditional method oriented teaching learning process,poor economic condition of the students, lack of teaching materials,lack of exposure to learning English, lack of modern teaching process, flexible policy of the state to open new school haphazardly,psychological problems of the students, lack of supervision of teaching process,English is being a foreign language, exam oriented concept of students, lack of qualified English teacher, students tend to cheating instead of preparation,incompleteness of the course in the scheduled time and lack of additional activities to learn English in the schools are the major causes of students’ failure in the S.L.C. exam in English. This study consists of four chapters.The first chapter deals with introduction to the study that includes general background, importance of English, introduction to secondary English curriculum, principles, methods and techniques, history of the S.L.C. examination, causes of college students failure, review of related literature,

objective and the significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology of the study. It contains sources of data, population of the study,sampling procedure, tools for data collection and limitation of the study .Chapter three deals with the analysis and interpretation of the data using different tables.The fourth chapter consists of findings and recommendations of the study and finally references and appendices are given.