Abstract:
The aim of the study was to investigate the summary writing mistakes that are made
among the second year students of Dadieso Senior High in the Western North Region
of Ghana. The main objectives addressed in the research were to find out the factors
that account for the summary writing problems and to find out ways of addressing
them. The instruments employed in this study included test, questionnaire,
observation and descriptions. Findings of the study revealed that it is difficult for the
second year students of Dadieso Senior High School to do summary writing
effectively and this has gone a long way to affect students’ performance in English. It
was evident in the study that students are unable to identify important ideas from the
irrelevant ones which makes them lift a whole sentence, use figurative languages, use
modifiers and embellishments, use examples and illustrations which are not supposed
to be part of summary writing. It has therefore been recommended that qualified
teachers should be made to teach the subject. More so, Ghana Education Service
should regularly organize refresher courses in English on teaching summary writing.
Description:
A dissertation in the Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign
Languages Education and Communication, submitted to the School of Graduate
Studies, in partial fulfilment
the requirements for the award of the degree of
Master of Education
(Teaching English as a Second Language – TESL)
in the University of Education, Winneba
