Assessment of English writing skills of minority students at primary level in Murshidabad district

Abstract

It is well known that, Majority of learners are very weak in English language of Bengali medium schools. In case of the writing skills of the children, among various components, unfortunately, the spelling error, tense, sentence and punctuation effects on writing expression very much. Although, several times, in service teachers training on English language had been introduced from government, various modern techniques have been implemented, but in reality, the learning outcome of the minority students at primary level of Bengali medium schools in English language is not up to the expectation level. The researcher tries to assess the level of the English writing skills component wise and total using EGWSQ, a self-developed tool by questionnaire technique. The study reveals that the scores of the English writing skills of the minority students at primary level are not normally distributed. There is no mean difference between scores of English writing skills of the minority students at primary level due to gender variation and there is mean difference between scores of English writing skills of the minority students at primary level due to location wise variation and management wise variation. Policy implication of this study is to make the teaching learning process joyful and activity based. It recommends various modern teaching methods to develop the writing skills of the students. Also to set up English medium model schools and model Madrashas in rural area of the district.