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Vol.1 , No. 4, Publication Date: Sep. 11, 2014, Page: 78-83
, during the 2012/2013 academic session in Kwara State College of Education (Tech.) Lafiagi, Nigeria. Two hundred students were sampled for the study. Pro-forma was used to collect data from fifty (50) multiple choice questions set for the students. Frequency counts and percentage and frequency bar chart were used to analyze the data collected. It was revealed in the findings that apart from study skills (rules of spelling), students were not doing well in other topics (verb-tenses, concord, lexis and structure, auxiliary/model verb, sentence types, comprehension, antonyms, synonyms, homophones, homonyms) in the course contents. To this effect, language proficiency and communicative competence in English language is in crisis. It was recommended among others that, those topics in General English such as verb-tenses, sentence types and reading comprehension must be taught by teachers with innovative teaching methods that could bring about effective teaching.&picture=http://www.aascit.org/aascit/decorators/img/journal/910.jpg)
| [1] | Olanipekun Shola Sunday, General Studies Education Department, College of Education (Tech.), Lafiagi, P.M.B 001,Kwara State, Nigeria. |
| [2] | Atteh Oluwaseun Deborah, Federal School of Statistics Manchok,Kaduna State, Nigeria. |
| [3] | Onabanjo Ebenezar Omoniyi, General Studies Education Department, College of Education (Tech.), Lafiagi, P.M.B 001,Kwara State, Nigeria. |
| [4] | Ohiemi Anthony Enyone, Department of English and Literary Studies, Bayero University Kano (BUK),Kano, Nigeria (M.A Student). |
The paper employed descriptive survey study of course content in General English which aimed at unfolding the analysis of students’ academic performance in General English II (GSE 121), during the 2012/2013 academic session in Kwara State College of Education (Tech.) Lafiagi, Nigeria. Two hundred students were sampled for the study. Pro-forma was used to collect data from fifty (50) multiple choice questions set for the students. Frequency counts and percentage and frequency bar chart were used to analyze the data collected. It was revealed in the findings that apart from study skills (rules of spelling), students were not doing well in other topics (verb-tenses, concord, lexis and structure, auxiliary/model verb, sentence types, comprehension, antonyms, synonyms, homophones, homonyms) in the course contents. To this effect, language proficiency and communicative competence in English language is in crisis. It was recommended among others that, those topics in General English such as verb-tenses, sentence types and reading comprehension must be taught by teachers with innovative teaching methods that could bring about effective teaching.
Keywords
Students’ Academic Performance, General English, Communicative Competence and Course Contents
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