Errors Committed by Grade Ten Students in Writing Letters
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Abstract
The research entitled “Errors Committed by Grade Ten Students in Writing
Letters” is an attempt to find out the errors that grade ten students commit
errors on agreement, articles and cohesion. To carry out this study, the
researcher has selected four schools from Gulmi district, i.e. two public schools
and two private schools through judgemental sampling and 80 students, 20
from each school, were selected randomly. The main objectives of the research
is to find out the secondary level students’ ability to use agreement, articles,
and cohesion. The researcher used both primary and secondary sources of data.
A set of test items consisting of three letter writing questions was the tool for
data collection. The first item was personal letter, the second letter of sympathy
and the third letter of application. The research findings show that the total
errors committed by the students were nine hundred and forty-four. The
students committed four hundred ten errors in agreement, two hundred four
errors in articles, and three hundred thirty three errors in cohesion. The students
committed the highest number of errors in agreement and the lowest number of
errors in articles. The researcher found that the students were comparatively
better in the use of articles than in agreement and cohesion. Similarly, the
students were better in the use of cohesion than agreement. Likewise, the
findings showed that the students of private school were the most able and the
students of public school were the least able to use the listed grammatical areas
and cohesive devices.
This thesis comprises four chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction which
consists of general background, review of the related literature, objective of the
study, significance of the study. Moreover, general background of the study
includes writing skill, components of writing, writing letter, classification of
letters, error analysis, stages of error analysis, importance of studying learner’s
errors, errors in writing letters. Chapter two deals with the methodology. It
consists of sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedures, tools
for data collection, process of data collection, and limitations of the study,
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grammatical items and cohesive device, test item wise errors in each school,
school wise errors in test item. Chapter three consists of analysis and
interpretation in terms of errors in grammatical item and cohesive devices, test
item wise errors in each school, school wise errors in test item. Chapter four
incorporates the findings and recommendations of the study. The findings have
been outlined on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of the data, and
appropriate recommendations for the pedagogical implications have been
suggested. This chapter is followed by references and appendices.