कार्यमूलक अनुसन्धान :नमुना नौ

Action Research : Model Nine

Researcher: Bhupal Khadka

 

Topics:  How can I Improve Free Writing Skill of My Grade 8 Students' Through Writing Daily Diary ?

 

1. Background of the study

I'm a teacher by profession. I've been in this profession for six years. At present, I am teaching in Shree Shanti Niketan Secondary School Rong Rural Municipality-3, Ilam. I teach English subject in class 8. English is an international language and is learnt around the world. In our country, it has the status of foreign language and learn our student as a second language. 

So, it is quite a interesting and challenging job to be an English teacher and teach English to students who may not have environment of learning or speaking English at their homes. Nepal, being a multi-lingual and multi-cultural country, our classes are full of students from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Students, who learn English as a second language, are not as competent as those whose native language is English. Being an English teacher, I have to face a lot of problems while teaching.

 

An Action research is a research that helps a teacher to find classroom teaching related problems and also helps to solve such problems applying various intervention one by another in a cyclical way. It is a practitioner-based research. In this action research I have done a research to find the problem of inefficiency of free writing of grade-8 students and have tried to reduce such problem. 

 

2. Objectives of the Study

The main objectives of this study are

• To find out the remedial solution for improving free writing of my grade eight students,

• To examine the effectiveness of daily diary writing technique for developing free writing,

• To share and reflect the findings in our workplace,

 

3. Main Problem

As I have mentioned earlier, I teach English in class Eight. There are around twenty-five students in class eight. As writing is one of the important skills to express our thought and view, in our context especially focused skill, students must have good command in free writing as well. Present Basic Level English curriculum also expects to have competency of communicating in written English in personal, social and academic contexts. However, while teaching in grade 8, I found lack of competencies of free writing. Students are unable to write even a single paragraph in common and simple topics. It was a big problem for me.

 

4. Evidence/proof of the problem 

I started looking for the evidence of the problem i.e. my students’ incompetency in free writing. I found out that they couldn't write a single paragraph in common and already heard topics. The average learning achievement of students of grade eight is a bit low. Students felt difficulty in expressing their ideas, views and .........

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