District wise Comparative Study of English Writing Skill of Bengali Medium Secondary School Students of West Bengal

Abstract

Writing is an extremely complex cognitive activity in which the writer is required to demonstrate control of variables simultaneously. There are some pedagogical purposes of writing. Good writing skills are needed for all the students in order to accomplish their educational and employable requirements. Writing or learning to write especially in a second language is not simple matter of writing things down. Writing process requires a number of different components and skills. By examining secondary students’ performance in English writing skills this study tries to get an idea of the achievement in English Writing skill of the of Bengali medium secondary students of West Bengal. A comparative study has been conducted among the Bengali medium secondary students of four districts of West Bengal. For this study, 1204 Bengali-medium students from four districts of West Bengal were taken as the samples. A descriptive survey has been applied as its methodology. Stratified random sampling is applied for gathering data. Self-made achievement tests and scoring rubrics are taken as data collection and scoring techniques. Hypotheses have been formed. District wise Group Statistics &independent sample t-test is used to assess all of the research’s data. Findings demonstrated that there are differences in the acquisition of the components of English Writing Skill among the students of four districts.