Prepositions problems encountered by secondary school students in writing English compositions : the case of Khartoum East secondary schools (third year students)
Dissertant
Thesis advisor
al-Ansari, Abbas Abd al-Rahman Babakir
University
Omdurman Islamic University
Faculty
Faculty of Arts
Department
Department of English Language and Literature
University Country
Sudan
Degree
Master
Degree Date
2005
English Abstract
This study addressed problems encountered by secondary school students when using English prepositions in writing composition. The area of research is the Khartoum High Secondary School, third year students.
The researcher has chosen 16 schools and from them he targeted seven randomly, and then from those seven schools, he took 120 students as a case study. As mentioned above, the main goal of this study is to trace the problems that third year students of High Secondary Schools face in writing compositions and to try to point out the areas of difficulties, the problematic prepositions and finding a remedy for the problems. For achieving the objectives and the goals of this study, the researcher has raised the following questions : 1.
Why do students avoid using prepositions and why most of their mistakes in the area of prepositions? 2.
Are prepositions difficult to learn and teach? 3.
Do students rely on their L1 prepositional knowledge in acquiring and understanding prepositional usage in English? 4.
Is there any relationship between the teacher, the teaching method and the mistakes committed by students? In addition to the questions that were mentioned above, the following hypotheses are proposed : 1.
Students always confuse prepositions. 2.
Prepositions are difficult to learn and teach. 3.
L1 prepositions have influences on L2 prepositions. 4.
Similarities of languages have influences on using correct prepositions. 5.
Qualified and well-trained teachers and methods of teaching have great influences on students' understanding of prepositions. For testing the hypotheses of this study, the students were asked to fill the gaps in a composition with suitable prepositions.
After that the researcher analyzed the results of the exam according to certain variables such as sex, governmental or private schools. The researcher has also used other statistical means such as the t-test, standard deviation, co-efficient correlation, the mean and the Chi-squire. The study is divided into five chapters: Chapter one is dealing with the statement of the problem Chapter two is investigating the review of literature Chapter three is about the methodology of the reach Chapter four surveys the preposition analysis and dissection of the results Finally, chapter five that deals with the conclusion, the main findings and suggestions for further studies.
Main Subjects
Topics
No. of Pages
121
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Chapter One : Introduction.
Chapter Two : Review of related literature.
Chapter Three : Research methodology.
Chapter Four : Presentation of analysis and discussion of results.
Chapter Five : Summary, conclusion and findings.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Issq, al-Hadi Muhammad. (2005). Prepositions problems encountered by secondary school students in writing English compositions : the case of Khartoum East secondary schools (third year students). (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-363567
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Issq, al-Hadi Muhammad. Prepositions problems encountered by secondary school students in writing English compositions : the case of Khartoum East secondary schools (third year students). (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Omdurman Islamic University. (2005).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-363567
American Medical Association (AMA)
Issq, al-Hadi Muhammad. (2005). Prepositions problems encountered by secondary school students in writing English compositions : the case of Khartoum East secondary schools (third year students). (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-363567
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-363567
