A Study of Errors Committed by Darai Learners of English in Subject Verb Agreement

Abstract

This dissertation entitled "A Study of Errors Committed by Darai Learners of English in Subject-Verb Agreement" aims at finding outproficiency and errors of Darai learners of English particularly ninthgraders of public schools. This study is beneficial to the related andinterested personnel. For this study, the researcher utilized subjective and objective toolsas a test item which was administered to the target group and scored theproficiency and counted the errors as aiming at fulfilling the objectives.After analyzing and interpreting the proficiency and errors, theresearcherfound that proficiency was not satisfactory in total, students performedbetter in item 'A', students committed more errors in 'other' verbs ratherthan 'be', 'have' and 'do' verbs and boys committed more errors than girlsand so on. This research attempt is divided into four chapters. The firstchapter entitled 'General Background' contains 'Fundamentals of ErrorsAnalysis', 'Importance of Studying Learner's Errors', 'Objectives of ErrorAnalysis', Stages of Error Analysis', 'Subject-Verb Agreement: AnOverview, The Darai language: An Introduction', Review of the relatedliterature, Objectives of the Study and 'significance of the Study'. The second chapter named 'Methodology' includes the followingsubheadings, 'Sources of Data, Population of the Study, SamplingProcedure, Tools for Data Collection, Process of Data Collection andLimitation of the Study, which helped to explain the Methodology inbrief. The primary data obtained from only sixty students. The third chapter occupies the core area of the research named'Analysis and Interpretation of the Data' under which total proficiency and total errors were analysed and interpreted statistically anddescriptively. Both proficiency and errors were vividly interpreted interms of different variables such as sex, school and items. The forth chapter contains 'findings and recommendations' of thestudy. On the basis of 'Analysis and Interpretation of the data, somefindings were listed and some recommendations were suggested in thischapter. Lastly, this chapter is followed by references and appendices.