CAUSES OF MASS FAILURE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

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ABSTRACT

The non-proficiency of Nigerian students in English Language has been a major concern of the research. Therefore, the researcher probed into the causes of mass failure in English Language in senior secondary schools in Olorunda Local Government Area of Osun State.

The research was carried out in five secondary schools in Olorunda Local Government Area. Questionnaire was designed for the purpose of data collection from a hundred students chosen at random with twenty students from each school. The simple percentage and frequency distribution tables were used to analyse the data.

The study revealed that the students believed that English Language is an interesting subject to study, but that lack of qualified teachers, inadequate teaching materials, bad reading culture, parents illiteracy, bad attitude of students to English Language, poor environmental conditions, overpopulation in the classroom, laziness of teachers to work, and truancy on the part of the students cause failure in English Language…

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TITLE PAGE i

CERTIFICATION ii

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

TABLE OF CONTENT v

LIST OF TABLES vii

ABSTRACT viii

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 1

1.2 STATEMENT OF RESEARCH PROBLEM 2

1.3 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY 2

1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 3

1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES 3

CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 5

2.1 WHAT IS ENGLISH LANGUAGE 5

2.2 CLASSIFICATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE 6

2.3 READING COMPREHENSION 7

CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 15

3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN 15

3.2 POPULATION AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUE 15

3.3 INSTRUMENTATION 16

3.4 METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS 16

CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 17

CHAPTER FIVE SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1 SUMMARY OF MAJOR FINDINGS 24

5.2 CONCLUSIONS 25

5.3. RECOMMENDATIONS 26

REFERENCES 27

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