AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2012
Reading comprehension is the basic foundation for functional literacy and scholastic achievement.... more Reading comprehension is the basic foundation for functional literacy and scholastic achievement. However, most school children spend a great deal of their time watching television or listening to radio than in reading. The research effort was thus; set out to investigate the effects of television and radio programmes to the development of comprehension levels in secondary school students. The study revealed that exposure to both programmes of television and radio had negative impact on the development of higher levels comprehension, while positively affecting the lower levels. Ways of developing critical comprehension in relation to both media types in reading classes and out of school activities are suggested AFRREV IJAH
Parents, school authorities and members of the public have been concerned about the pervasive and... more Parents, school authorities and members of the public have been concerned about the pervasive and powerful nature of the broadcast media to attract the youths, the much time they spend with the media as opposed to the little time they spend in their studies. Their concern arises from the noting that these could become powerful distractors to structured learning, despite their positive contributions to the dissemination of information. This scenario coupled with the poor speaking and writing among Nigerian youths necessitated this research efforts. Results of findings indicate that both television and radio have a positive influence on speaking skills of students, but no effect was indicated on their writing skills. The findings were interpreted in terms of what teachers could do to use the TV and radio to promote the development of spoken and written English. Background and Problem The English Language is arguably the most significant but controversial subject taught in Nigerian schools and is a major requirement for University and further education. Nevertheless, students and young people see it as a major obstacle to their further studies, because they find it difficult to pass it at the O level examinations. This frustration appears to cause resentment among learners about the continued significance attached the English Language in the school curriculum as they not only perform poorly in examinations, but are also poor communicators in the language.
This study investigated the effects of concept mapping on sentence construction, paragraphing, an... more This study investigated the effects of concept mapping on sentence construction, paragraphing, and editing in composition writing achievement of secondary school students in Kafanchan Education Zone, Kaduna State Nigeria. The study answered three research questions and tested three hypotheses. Quasi-experimental (non-equivalent pre-test-post-test control group design) research design was employed for the study. The population of the study included all the 1,242 Junior Secondary School two (JS II) students in 35 public secondary schools in Kafanchan Education Zone of Kaduna State. Sample of 66 students from two intact classes (experimental group = 36, control group = 30) participated in the study. Students in the experimental group received 8-weeks of training on concept mapping instruction, while those in the control group were exposed to normal conventional teaching. Students’ composition writing achievement test (SCWAT, test-retest reliability = 0.78) was developed by the research...
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2020
The ability to decode text effortlessly and to recognize words automatically is crucial to text c... more The ability to decode text effortlessly and to recognize words automatically is crucial to text comprehension. Most children will need intentional and systematic instruction in order to develop these reading fluency skills. The present study examined the effects of explicit instruction on reading fluency skills among 124 primary four pupils in four public primary schools. To gather data for this study, Reading Fluency Test (RFT) was used. The RFT measured the three reading fluency skills: word recognition, decoding and prosody. Analyses of data gathered using the t-test dependent sample revealed that explicit instruction improved reading fluency skills of pupils. These results confirm that improvements in reading fluency skills of pupils are related to intentional instruction as found in explicit instruction. One implication of the study is that teachers should be intentional in improving the reading fluency skills of pupils at the primary level of education.
Parents, school authorities and members of the public have been concerned about the pervasive and... more Parents, school authorities and members of the public have been concerned about the pervasive and powerful nature of the broadcast media to attract the youths, the much time they spend with the media as opposed to the little time they spend in their studies. Their concern arises from the noting that these could become powerful distractors to structured learning, despite their positive contributions to the dissemination of information. This scenario coupled with the poor speaking and writing among Nigerian youths necessitated this research efforts. Results of findings indicate that both television and radio have a positive influence on speaking skills of students, but no effect was indicated on their writing skills. The findings were interpreted in terms of what teachers could do to use the TV and radio to promote the development of spoken and written English. Background and Problem The English Language is arguably the most significant but controversial subject taught in Nigerian schools and is a major requirement for University and further education. Nevertheless, students and young people see it as a major obstacle to their further studies, because they find it difficult to pass it at the O level examinations. This frustration appears to cause resentment among learners about the continued significance attached the English Language in the school curriculum as they not only perform poorly in examinations, but are also poor communicators in the language.
AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2012
Reading comprehension is the basic foundation for functional literacy and scholastic achievement.... more Reading comprehension is the basic foundation for functional literacy and scholastic achievement. However, most school children spend a great deal of their time watching television or listening to radio than in reading. The research effort was thus; set out to investigate the effects of television and radio programmes to the development of comprehension levels in secondary school students. The study revealed that exposure to both programmes of television and radio had negative impact on the development of higher levels comprehension, while positively affecting the lower levels. Ways of developing critical comprehension in relation to both media types in reading classes and out of school activities are suggested AFRREV IJAH
Parents, school authorities and members of the public have been concerned about the pervasive and... more Parents, school authorities and members of the public have been concerned about the pervasive and powerful nature of the broadcast media to attract the youths, the much time they spend with the media as opposed to the little time they spend in their studies. Their concern arises from the noting that these could become powerful distractors to structured learning, despite their positive contributions to the dissemination of information. This scenario coupled with the poor speaking and writing among Nigerian youths necessitated this research efforts. Results of findings indicate that both television and radio have a positive influence on speaking skills of students, but no effect was indicated on their writing skills. The findings were interpreted in terms of what teachers could do to use the TV and radio to promote the development of spoken and written English. Background and Problem The English Language is arguably the most significant but controversial subject taught in Nigerian schools and is a major requirement for University and further education. Nevertheless, students and young people see it as a major obstacle to their further studies, because they find it difficult to pass it at the O level examinations. This frustration appears to cause resentment among learners about the continued significance attached the English Language in the school curriculum as they not only perform poorly in examinations, but are also poor communicators in the language.
This study investigated the effects of concept mapping on sentence construction, paragraphing, an... more This study investigated the effects of concept mapping on sentence construction, paragraphing, and editing in composition writing achievement of secondary school students in Kafanchan Education Zone, Kaduna State Nigeria. The study answered three research questions and tested three hypotheses. Quasi-experimental (non-equivalent pre-test-post-test control group design) research design was employed for the study. The population of the study included all the 1,242 Junior Secondary School two (JS II) students in 35 public secondary schools in Kafanchan Education Zone of Kaduna State. Sample of 66 students from two intact classes (experimental group = 36, control group = 30) participated in the study. Students in the experimental group received 8-weeks of training on concept mapping instruction, while those in the control group were exposed to normal conventional teaching. Students’ composition writing achievement test (SCWAT, test-retest reliability = 0.78) was developed by the research...
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2020
The ability to decode text effortlessly and to recognize words automatically is crucial to text c... more The ability to decode text effortlessly and to recognize words automatically is crucial to text comprehension. Most children will need intentional and systematic instruction in order to develop these reading fluency skills. The present study examined the effects of explicit instruction on reading fluency skills among 124 primary four pupils in four public primary schools. To gather data for this study, Reading Fluency Test (RFT) was used. The RFT measured the three reading fluency skills: word recognition, decoding and prosody. Analyses of data gathered using the t-test dependent sample revealed that explicit instruction improved reading fluency skills of pupils. These results confirm that improvements in reading fluency skills of pupils are related to intentional instruction as found in explicit instruction. One implication of the study is that teachers should be intentional in improving the reading fluency skills of pupils at the primary level of education.
Parents, school authorities and members of the public have been concerned about the pervasive and... more Parents, school authorities and members of the public have been concerned about the pervasive and powerful nature of the broadcast media to attract the youths, the much time they spend with the media as opposed to the little time they spend in their studies. Their concern arises from the noting that these could become powerful distractors to structured learning, despite their positive contributions to the dissemination of information. This scenario coupled with the poor speaking and writing among Nigerian youths necessitated this research efforts. Results of findings indicate that both television and radio have a positive influence on speaking skills of students, but no effect was indicated on their writing skills. The findings were interpreted in terms of what teachers could do to use the TV and radio to promote the development of spoken and written English. Background and Problem The English Language is arguably the most significant but controversial subject taught in Nigerian schools and is a major requirement for University and further education. Nevertheless, students and young people see it as a major obstacle to their further studies, because they find it difficult to pass it at the O level examinations. This frustration appears to cause resentment among learners about the continued significance attached the English Language in the school curriculum as they not only perform poorly in examinations, but are also poor communicators in the language.
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