Errors of Vocabulary in English language among the Students of English At Upper Primary Level

India is one of those countries where English Language is a medium of communication especially at national and international level. In many countries of the world today, English language is the language of Commerce, Science and Technology, Education, Globalization, International Politics etc. In different countries English Language is taught for different purposes. In India English Language was started to be taught by the British Government to fulfill their purpose, as a result English Language has become a part of Indian Language. In India it is used as official language.

Today, English Language is taught in institutions to facilitate the student's proficiency as well as to prepare the students to study abroad. Today millions of people want to improve their command of English or wish that their children also have a good command over English. So, English language has been playing a dominating part in our educational as well as social set up. It has become a symbol of people's aspirations for quality in education and a fuller participation in national and international level. But the learners of English language face difficulty in learning English. In India, many problems are being faced in teaching/learning English. The primary aim of teaching learning English should concentrate on the fundamental skills of language learning i.e. listening, reading, speaking and writing, but learners tend to commit grammatical errors in their conversation as well as in writing without being aware of them.

This study is an attempt to trace some common errors related to vocabulary committed by the students of Govt. and Private (Hindi medium) schools at upper primary level, so that students can be made aware of these errors and they become cautious in future and try to lessen these errors. Objective of the study is to compare the students of Govt. and private schools with respect to the errors related to vocabulary committed by them in English Language. They were compared for reading, writing, understanding and speaking by testing through use of preposition, articles, adjectives, verb, opposite etc.

For sampling, the researcher selected total 200 students out of 300 from four schools. From each school 50 students were selected by simple random sampling technique. For data collection the researcher constructed a diagnostic test on different dimensions i.e. reading, writing, understanding and speaking etc. Then this diagnostic test 1st (Pre-test) was administered on 200 students. After finding out the errors done by the students in Pre-test, the researcher made four remedial groups of the students. The researcher taught them through remedial teaching. For this 5 remedial plans were constructed and each plan was taught seven times to each remedial group. The students were made aware of the mistakes they had committed during Pre-test. After the remedial teaching the researcher administered diagnostic test 2nd (Post-test) to find out the result of remedial class. It was concluded after analyzing the obtained data that the students in both i.e. govt. and private schools do errors in the use of Vocabulary and after remedial teaching both have improved but the level of achievement in the students of Private school was found higher than that of the students of Govt. schools. This difference may be caused due to so many causes i.e. family background of student, parents, teachers and surrounding environment etc.