A Study on English Vocabulary Achievement by The Students of Grade Seven in Content Words
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Central department of English Education
Abstract
This study attempts to explore the students achievement of vocabulary items included in the
textbook of grade seven. Four schools and altogether forty students from each of the four
schools of Kailali district were selected for this study. I prepared a list of content words
(nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) used in the English textbook of grade seven. A set of
written tests was used as a main instrument for the data collection. Ten test items included of
40 individual vocabulary items, 32 nouns, 23 verbs, 20 adjectives and 13 adverbs. The data
were provided by the 40 students of two sub-urban and two urban schools of Kailali district.
The sample population was selected by using a random sampling procedure. The data
obtained were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive approach and simple statistical
tools viz. mean and percentage. The finding of the study showed that the English vocabulary
achievement of the students of grade 7 on content words was satisfactory in total but while
doing school-wise analysis, the students of Shree Kalika Lower Secondary School were
found unsatisfactory in the use of content words in comparison to other schools. The students
of Shree Arunodaya H. S. School were found unsatisfactory in the use of verbs, adjectives
and adverbs. Similarly, the students of Shree United Academy School and Shree Mt. Saipal
International Academy School were found satisfactory in verbs and adjectives and adverbs
respectively. It was also found that there was a great disparity in students achievement of
English vocabulary in different schools.
The vocabulary achievement of boys in nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs was found
better then that of girls in urban school but in nouns, the performance of girls was better than
the boys in sub-urban schools. The present work is divided into four chapters. The first
chapter includes general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study
and significance of the study. The second chapter i.e. methodology, focuses on the sources of
data, sampling procedure, tools of data collection, process of data collection and limitations
of the study. Similarly, the third chapter is concerned with the analysis and interpretation of
data. And findings and recommendations are given in the fourth chapter. On the basis of the
findings some recommendations and pedagogical implications are drawn. The references and
appendix are the concluding parts of the study.