ABSTRACT
This
research was aimed at investment in to some of the causes of students poor
performance in English language in Jigawa state post primary school (case study
of Dutse Local Government). Ninety (90) questionnaires were administered half
for teachers and other half for students.
The
subjected responses were collection and analyzed by means of percentage
(tabulation and description). The research itself was organised into five
chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction, chapter two deals with review of
literature pertinent to this research, chapter three deals with methodology on
how the research was carried out, chapter four deal with descriptions and
analysis of various responses and chapter five consist of conclusion and
recommendations based on such description analysis.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE - - - - - - - - - -I
APPROVAL PAGE - - - - - - - - -II
DEDICATION - - - - - - - - - -III
ACKNOWLEDGMENT - - - - - - - - -IV
TABLE OF CONTENT - - - - - - - - -V
ABSTRACT - - - - - - - - - -VIII
CHAPTER
ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION:
- - - - - - - - - -1
1.1
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM- - - - - - -4
1.2
RESEARCH QUESTION- - - - - - - - -5
1.3
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY- - - - - - -5
CHAPTER TWO
2.0
REVIEW OF
RELATED LITERATURE- - - - - -6
2.1
CHILDREN BACKGROUND- - - - - - - -6
2.2
SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT- - - - - - - -6
2.3
TEACHERS ATTITUDE- - - - - - - - -6
2.4
TEACHING MATERIAL- - - - - - - - -7
2.5
STUDENTS FACTOR- - - - - - - - -8
2.6
RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS- - - - - -8
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1
INTRODUCTION- - - - - - - - - -10
3.2
POPULATION OF THE STUDY- - - - - - -10
3.3
SAMPLE OF THE STUDY- - - - - - - -10
3.4
RESEARCH INTRUMENT (QUESTIONNAIRE) - - - - -10
3.5
VALIDATION OF INSTRUMENT- - - - - - -10
3.6
PERCENTAGE METHOD- - - - - - - -11
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0
PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA- - - - -12
4.1
TABLE- - - - - - - - - - - -12
4.2
PRESENTATION QUALIFICATION- - - - - - -13
4.3
FINDINGS- - - - - - - - - - -15
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION - -16
5.1
SUMMARY- - - - - - - - - - -16
5.2
CONCLUSION - - - - - - - - -17
5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS - - - - - - - -16
BIBLIOGRAPHY - - - - - - - -18
APPENDEX - - - - - - - - -19
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION:
English
language maintains and should continue to remain as core subject on the
curriculum from kinder getting to the university. Most parent expert from the
children after a week in the nursery school to be able to read A,B,C,D---------student
must pass English language in the common advance examination before they can
proceed to secondary school. After their primary education, they must pass
English Language at junior secondary school certificate Examination (JSSCE) in
order to move from junior to senior secondary school not matter which course
they will study.
English must also passed must at the
WEAC or NECO conducted senior secondary school certificate Examination (SSCE) otherwise
the candidate remain stranded and stagnant in his academic carriers. But
performance of students in senior secondary school English is a path way
through which students can perform in all the subjects they are offering,
because all the subject were taught in English therefore failure in English
language can tend to failure in all other subject. According to report on the
survey of performance of candidate in all subjects in Nigeria over the years
deviled a discernible decline. This parent declined has become a source of
concerned to English language educators.
The Join Admission and Matriculation
Board give a convert and fuctical endorsement to this seemingly compulsory of
English language. For all candidate seeking for admission in any of the
nation’s tertiary institution through jamb. Reported that all of the courses in
universities required English as a
prerequisite for admission. Employers of labour equally expert their
prospective applicant to exhibit good performance in selection aptitude fest.
Such test are usually lace with really dosage of English, this English like our
shadow stick close to us the concept of literacy no wonder then goes and in
glove with pronunciation and spelling a person who is stagnant in terms
pronunciation and spelling skills will remain not only useless to himself but
also the society as a whole because pronunciation and spelling skills remain
pivot of language indifferent aspect of our life this seen visibly in the case
area commerce education transport, housing, health, communication, defense and
politics. The twelve two-third saga of second republic is very significant in
the annual of the history of Nigerian political development.
Many students made English their enemy
and therefore have the highest failure rate in all public examination from
common entrance to the SSCE. University Matriculation Examination (UME)and
polytechnic and college of Education Matriculation Examination (PCE) English phobia
or the fever of and littered of English prevalent in our school is not only
restricted to the low achievers but un-expectedly cut across the rank and file
of all students even including the seemingly brighter ones.
Academic standard some educators
assesses scores present for on examination Ajikomo (1976) in discussing academic
standard opined a high or low level standard education could be assesses by the
type of overt behaviour generally associated with most pupils from a particular
school (and or not only intellectual or cognitive performance).
Educational standard should be view
being multi-dimensional in nature. A high standard in an individual a class or
a school is assume if a high level of competence in the three educational
domains of cognitive psychomotor and effective is displayed the (quality)
standard of education according to comb’s (1985) duels with issue of relevance,
validity, functionalism and efficiency of an educational system in the
achievement of national goals. Priories Gardiner (1961) summit led that
standard (excellence) striving for the highest standard in every phase of life will
be judge by how successful educators have been in realizing the goals of
teachers education standard to same other scholars as desirable level of
attachment is preferable expressed in terms of outcome of instruction.
Academic standard from all above could
be said to be the measure and their performance of a group. It is a degrees or
level of aspect tance require for a particular purpose. Academic standard could
not be reasonable discourse in the absence of period specification of the
educational goals of educational system this is because standard indicated the
level which student s are expected to accomplish as a result of laving gone
through a programmed of livening process in Nigeria. Does academic standard of
education really exist? Academic standard of education in Nigeria, what makes
up a nation standard of education is level of excellence of the student at the
various educational level with particular reference to their learning of
specific educational objective. I WAJJ (1988) stated.
“The fact remains that Nigerian
educational standard has never been established in the history of Nigerians
education. This related to the fact that the education in any society should be
given toward the world of words and should reflect and positively centre for
the need of the people and ideals of the society school enrolment has been a
little high with a dropping percentage of performance. Envolments in Nigerians
school between 1960 and 1984 reveals that primary schools enrolments was 3
million in 1960 while it rose to 18 million in 1984. Enrolment in secondary
schools has 135.4 thousand in 1960 was 2,545 while in 1984 its 108,720 (ale.
2000) increase in enrolment has not been associated with high performance but
it has led to a serious declined in the standard and level of students
achievement. The government policy of free education and automatic promotion in
the south western part of Nigeria between 1979 and 1983 did not help issue either.
Poor performance in competitive
examination have led many students among other factors to took for shorter
route (Through Examination Malpractice) toward passing their names among it is
practioners. Investigation during the course of this study reveals some of those
fanciful names:
a- Bullet
or missiles or microchip
b- Bobbing
c- Tattoo
d- Walkie-talkie
e- Mercerize
or contractors or machine
f- Jet
g- Super-print
h- Copy/rank-xeroxed
i- Life
or expo
j- Packing
k- Insult
or assault or threat
l- Forging
or certificate
m- Publishing
examination in English through on official channel.
Research,
studies have identified several factors as being responsible for examination
malpractice in English. HARBOUR PETER
(2000) identified some of those factors as follows:
i-
Improper
preparation of student of examination by the English teachers.
ii-
The teacher
including many difficult question in the examination.
iii-
Ambiguity of the
instruction as regard to question them.
iv-
Lack of self confidence
by the students.
v-
Poor management
of the English by the examiners and or invigilator.
vi-
over crowding of
the examination hall.
vii-
The temptation
of the availability of an avenue to cheat in and out of and examination hall.
viii-
Nervousness brought
about by English .being through as abstract disciplined or the examination
being seeing as a treat
ix-
An attempt to
assist a tried
x-
Encouragements
to cheat by parent and guardians.
xi-
Forcing students
getting minimum qualities to offer English as a subject and or course for which
they lack the aptitude pre-requisite and competency.
xii-
The policy of
getting minimum qualities for a course in English even when the students luck
the aptitude skills to make (technical) Dutse by the right hand side it has
started with three hundred and eighty (380)but now the students population is
almost two thousands one hundred (2,100)
and thirty two (32) teachers.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM;
Jigawa
state post primary students are not
performing well in English. Result for English in the subject (English) is very
poor. Is a real issue that need to be investigated. This brought about the need
for this reserved courses of student poor performance in English language in
secondary school in Kano state which special reference to Dutse local
government.
1.2 RESEARCH QUESTION
This research Aim to answer the
following questions:
1- Why
students perform poorly in English language?
2- What
is the degree of effectiveness of English language teachers in Dutse local
government?
3- Are
there enough teaching aid in English in the secondary school in Dutse local government?
4- How
serious are the students?
5- What
are the problems connected with topics?
6- What
are the possible solutions to them?
1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The topics causes of poor
performance of student in English language to be required in Jigawa state
taking a particular locality is a subject of the study. Dutse local government
has been chosen as an area of the study not because it has been obviously research
in to due to educational system. Because total area are neglected in the
research. It is trooped that information
collected in this book could be useful to the following:
1. Jigawa
state ministry of education in terms of knowing short comings that contribute
immensely to the poor performance of students in English language.
2. The
research will enable government to be aware of courses of mass failure in
English language.
3. In
sense that suggested solution will hopefully help the ministry of education,
researchers and students matriculation examinations (PCE), (UME), (UTME) and
the rest to overcome such problem.
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