Relationship between English writing Skills and Performance of 6th Grade Students
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Writing is the fourth basic skill of the English language which is essential in students’ life. It plays an important role in language learning. The main purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between English writing skills and the performance of 6th Grade Students. The current research was quantitative in design and the correlation research method was used. The accessible population was all Elementary School students of tehsil Lahore, Pakistan. The sample size of this study was 18 schools of boys, 24 schools of girls, 20 schools of girls from private elementary schools, and 20 boys were selected by using non randomly on a convenient basis. Total sample size was 1167 students. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were applied. Pearson Correlation was applied to find the relationship between English subject score and overall performance of the 6th grade students. Furthermore, independent samples t-test was applied to compare the difference based on demographical variables. It was found that a strong relationship existed between students’ English subject marks and their total obtained marks. There was also a significant difference was in scores of females and males, government and private school students. It recommended that there should be teacher training in rural areas with the same frequency of the urban areas. There should be the same instructional guidelines in public and private schools.
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