TESTING ORAL ENGLISH IN TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES: A CASE STUDY OF 1984/85 FORM FIVE STUDENTS OF JESUS COLLEGE, OTUKPO BENUE STATE
TESTING ORAL ENGLISH IN TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES: A CASE STUDY OF 1984/85 FORM FIVE STUDENTS OF JESUS COLLEGE, OTUKPO BENUE STATE
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Date
1988-06
Authors
AWODI, SAMUEL ODE
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Abstract
This study dealt with tasting .Oral English in T^achar
Training Ci lieges uith a particular case study of the
1984/85 fnrm five students of Jesus College, Otukpa in
Benue State.
The Study focused specifically on the problems of |
testing Oral English at the productive and at the reccaptive |
levels. It further examinod the problams of administering
Oral English tests at those two levels. The second group
of problems uere discussed in two parts. One of those
discussed the problems which the researcher encountered
uhile the other discussed those encountered by the students.
The study also examined the effects of those problems
on the students' performance in the tests.
The tests were sub-divided into eight sub-tests
namely:-
(i) Listening comprehension
(ii) Minimally contrasting items
(iii) Vowel and consonant sounds
(iv) Consonant clusters
(v) Word and sentence stress
(vi) Emphatic stress
(vii) Intonation
(viii) Oral rending (passages)
In order te make the tests valid and reliable, Ingram's
(Davies '86) Item Analysis and the Split-half technique were
used. And in order to validate the subjectivity in Oral
reading (passages) scoring, two independent raters uure
employed to score the students along with the reasercher.
Fifty respondents uere sampled for both the pilot
and the main tests.
The respondents' performances were computerised and
analysed at A.B.U Computer Centre and the reports uere
recorded in chapter four of the study.
During the course of the Study, it was observed that
the students were not adequately and properly taught Oral
reading (passages) and emphatic stress. It was also noticed
that the receptive level was neglected by the Oral English
teachers. As a result, the students performed relatively
poorly in those areas.
The problems which both the researcher and the students
(respondents) encountered during the course of the test
administration were listed in chapter four of the study
while the recommendations for further solutian were given in
chapter five.
Tha study showed that the problems discussed had
negative effects on the performnnce of the respondents.
In conclusion, the researcher recommended those two
areas for further research:
(i) The area of what should be tested in Oral
English needs further studios.
(ii) The codification of Nigerian spoken English
needs immediate attention of linguists.
Description
A Project submitted to the Postgraduate School of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, In partial
fulfillment of the requirements of the
MASTER OF EDUCATION (TESL).
Keywords
TESTING,, ORAL ENGLISH,, TEACHER,, TRAINING,, COLLEGES,, CASE STUDY,, FIVE STUDENTS,, JESUS COLLEGE,, OTUKPO,, BENUE STATE