A STUDY ON STUDENTS’ USE OF PUNCTUATION MARKS IN ENGLISH WRITING - A CASE STUDY OF NEPAL

Authors

  • Ramesh Prasad Adhikary Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu M.M. Campus, Nepalgunj, Nepal

Keywords:

proficiency, erroneous, punctuation marks, writing, mistake

Abstract

The present research is focused on correct and erroneous use of punctuation marks and compares boys and girls in terms of the use of punctuation marks. It mainly focused on finding out the proficiency of the students in the use of punctuation marks in English writing. In order to fulfill these objectives, 40 students of class XI (20 boys and 20 girls) from GVN Secondary schools of Banke District, Nepalgunj, Nepal were given test items related to the guided writing. To select school, the researcher used judgmental non-random sampling procedure and to choose students, random sampling procedures were used. The researcher found that fullstop has the highest frequency (i.e. 34.42%) and slash has the lowest frequency (i.e. 1.02%) of the total use.

Author Biography

  • Ramesh Prasad Adhikary, Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu M.M. Campus, Nepalgunj, Nepal

    Dr. Ramesh Prasad Adhikary is an assistant professor of Tribhuwan Univeristy, Kathmandu, Nepal. He has been teaching English literature at M.M. Campus since 2007. He has completed his PhD in Existential philosophy and has been doing his research on English language, literature and literary theories. He has created more than 40 international articles and 18 books on various topics of English literature.

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Khatri, L.B. (2001). A study of errors in punctuation committed by the graders. An unpublished M.Ed. thesis. T.U., Kirtipur.

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Published

2020-05-04

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Articles