Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Veena Bhalerao, Sapna Kachave and Pratiksha Gawale

Abstract:
One hundred and fifty rural students of VII std were selected randomly from Zilla Parishad govt. schools of Parbhani district, Marathwada region from Maharashtra state for studying their home environment & incidence of writing errors committed by rural school going children. The data were collected by personally interviewing children and teachers. It was noted that only few of the students could copy down the passage in Marathi and English (7-16%) without any errors. While the grammatical errors were found in 81 and 75 percent Marathi and English dictated passage. Grammatical errors committed by the children while writing a copied passage were 58% and 45%. The punctuation errors were also towards higher percentage for dictated passage (80% & 70%) than for copied passage (63% & 56%). Comparatively less errors were committed by girls (21-25%) than boys (32-34%) in both Marathi and English copied passages on the other hand grammatical errors were more for dictated passage (72-82%) than the copied passage for both the languages irrespective of gender of the students. The boys committed proportionately more mistakes (74 & 68%) than the girl students (50% & 44%) while copying the Marathi and English passage.