International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue VII, July 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186

Secondary Students’ Bangla Essay Writing Problems: Determination and Solution

Gazee Mahmud Hassan, M.phil Fellow
Institute of Education and Research (IER)
Rajshahi university, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Abstract: The undertaking of this study is to identify secondary level students’ essay writing difficulty in Bangla as the first language and to suggest ways of solving those problems. The study was carried out among the Students, Teachers’ of a Co-Educational school of Bangladesh. In this research, the design used is descriptive with qualitative research method. A sample of 30Bangla language students was chosen by means of a random non-probability sampling procedure. The students of selected school were instructed to write a descriptive composition of about 650 -750 words on the topic “Amar Niz Gram“(My Own village). The students’ essays were evaluated two times by 2 Bangla language teachers. The goal was to make outthe inaccuracy and error made by the learners. The findings exposed that those secondary level learners have a variety of difficulties in essay writing: language difficulties at the stage of syntax; procedural error, and unconscious mechanical errors such as spelling, punctuation and incomplete sentence, lack of writing expansion skills and cognitive problems. A number of suggestions have been made in accordance with the findings of the research: It would be constantly supportive to tell pupils to rework on their written effort. The natural pauses while speaking would help them in appropriate punctuation usage. The mistakes associated with spelling could be corrected by means of dictionaries or spellcheckers. Usage mistakes and grammar mistakes will eventually disappear, if the students read the texts of various sources like books, articles, journals, newspapers, etc. extensively (better to put in solution section).

Keywords: Bangla Essay writing; Grammar mistakes; Usage mistakes; Mechanical mistakes;

I. INTRODUCTION

Any piece of writing is a kind of literature (Bandyopadhyay, 1995). Therefore, essay writing is a piece of literature. Factually, a writing like, essay writing falls under the category of literature. The way arts and literature are influenced by the external factors to the artists and the artist is internally enhanced with personal enrichment through the external facts internalization and molded into a permanent form of art and literature; similarly the internalization happens in the work of a performer and fictional personal. And then the artist makes a mélange between his/her understanding and constructs a creative demonstration in a creative way. Considering the above argument it is reasonably state able that the method a work of skill is represented by the artiste in a similar manner an essayist also produces a piece of literature of essay.