Proficiency of Grade Nine Students in English Word Derivation
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This research entitled "Proficiency of Grade Nine Students in English Word
Derivation" is an attempt to find out the proficiency of the students of grade nine in
English word derivation by using the class changing derivational suffixes and
compare their proficiency in terms of schools, government-aided vs. private schools,
gender and four major word classes : noun, verb, adjective and adverb. It was also
carried out to determine the proficiency level of those students and suggest some
pedagogical implications. The sample population consisted of 120 students studying
in grade nine in six government-aided and private schools of Kavre district. Three
government-aided and three private boarding schools were selected through purposive
random sampling procedure and twenty students (10 boys and 10 girls) from each of
the selected schools were chosen by using stratified random sampling procedure for
the sake of data collection. The tool for the data collection consisted of test items. The
proficiency in derivation of English words was analysed and interpreted by using
tables and statistical tools: percentage and average. The total proficiency of the
students (91.34% of the full mark) was found very good. The students of Saraswoti
Kunj Boarding School performed the best with 98.21% and the students of Shikshya
Sadan Higher Secondary School performed the lowest with 76.5%. The proficiency of
private school students was better than that of government-aided school students by
11.16% and the girls were 1.16% more proficient than the boys. The students were
found the best in adverb and lowest in adjective derivation.
The thesis comprises four chapters. Chapter one basically introduces the research
work with general background of the English language focusing on the research topic
itself, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study and
definitions of the specific terms. Chapter two introduces the methodology adopted for
the study. This chapter deals with sources of data (primary and secondary), population
of the study, sampling procedure, tools, process of data collection and limitations of
the study. Chapter three presents the analysis and interpretation of the data under
different headings using the statistical tools : tables, average and percentage. Chapter
four presents findings of the study and recommendations from the perspective of
pedagogical implications as well as further research.