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Download full textIfeanyi A. Uche; Ugochukwu Chinedu Noke; O. John Udeigwe; Chinenye Olekaibe – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
This is a case study of classroom interaction of SSS1 English and Igbo in reading comprehension at Premier Secondary School, Aba, Nigeria. The purpose is to determine whether interaction in reading comprehension in English and Igbo is constrained by language in terms of interaction patterns, style and culture. The class sessions were described…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Secondary School Students, African Languages, English Instruction
Ugwu, Eucharia Okwudilichukwu – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2022
Literature-in-English is a major school subject that equips students with language and other soft skills needed for entry into the workforce. For students to acquire the skills, effective teaching, which is dependent on the availability of basic teaching--learning resources, is essential. Education is underfunded in Nigeria. This affects the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Skill Development
Olasehinde-Williams, Felicia; Yahaya, Lasiele; Owolabi, Henry – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2018
That less than 40% of candidates who took the Senior School Certificate Examinations in Nigeria between 2009 and 2015 had credits and above in English language and Mathematics has become a source of worry to all stakeholders. Results of research efforts to provide plausible explanations to the problem have been inconclusive. Also, not much had…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Predictor Variables, Secondary School Teachers
Ihejirika, Richard C. – English Language Teaching, 2014
A close look at literature and language shows that the two are closely related. This close relationship is obvious because from all indications, literature presupposes language. It is inconceivable to discuss literature without reference to language. But going by the traditional practice at the secondary school level in Nigerian context, there are…
Descriptors: Literature, English Instruction, Language Acquisition, Teaching Methods
Adelodun, Gboyega Adelowo; Asiru, Abdulahi Babatunde – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study examined the role played by instructional resources in enhancing performance of students, especially that of high-achievers, in English Language. The study is descriptive in nature and it adopted a survey design. Simple random sampling technique was used for the selection of fifty (50) SSI-SSIII students from five schools in Ibadan…
Descriptors: High Achievement, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Student Surveys
Mensah, Eyo; Mensah, Eyamba – English Language Teaching, 2014
One of the linguistic outcomes of the sustained contact of a target language (L2) with a source language (L1) in the course of history is the adaptation and integration of loanwords from the former into the lexicon of the latter. This paper discusses the phonological strategies and parameters for the adaptation of English consonants (which mainly…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Instruction, English Language Learners, Phonology
Direct linkOsagie, Roseline O. – Education, 2012
The dismal results of 2011, 2010, 2009, and previous years WAEC and NECO Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) show the pitiable state of education in secondary schools in Nigeria. The youths of today live in a digital age. Web technologies and sites have become an integral part of the youth culture. Today's youths use the web tools to…
Descriptors: Tests, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Internet
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
