Errors committed by IELTS students in writing free composition

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dc.contributor.authorGautam, Krishna Prasad
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-21T06:13:58Z
dc.date.available2024-01-21T06:13:58Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThe present study entitledErrors Committed by IELTS Students in WritingFree Compositionis mainly concerned with identifying and describing the errors in agreement, prepositions, capitalization, cohesion and coherence in freewriting. For this study, 50 students studying in five different educational consultancies in Kathmandu district were selected using disproportionatestratified random sampling procedure, (i.e. 10 students from each consultancy,consisting of equal number of students from both the sexes got selected). A setof subjective test items, consisting of one free writing question, was the oneand only tool for data collection. The study showed that the students committed the highest number of errors in coherence and the lowest number oferrors inusing capitalization. The students committed 417 errors in total, out of which89(21.34%), 35(8.39%), 68(16.31%) and 225(53.96%) errors were committedin agreement, capitalization, cohesion and coherence, respectively. The study consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction tothe study encompassing the general background, literature review, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology.It encompasses sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure,research tools, process of data collection, and limitations of the study.Similarly, the third chapter, which is the core part of the study, includes theanalysis and interpretation of the data. And finally, the fourth chapterincorporates the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications ofthe study.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/21321
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of English Educaionen_US
dc.subjectWriting skillen_US
dc.subjectError analysisen_US
dc.subjectIELTS studentsen_US
dc.titleErrors committed by IELTS students in writing free compositionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Educationen_US
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