THE PROCESSING OF SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY IN ENGLISH: A STUDY OF FEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, ZARIA AND KANO STUDENTS.

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dc.contributor.authorABDULRASHEED, RASHIDA .S.
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-19T09:24:24Z
dc.date.available2014-02-19T09:24:24Z
dc.date.issued2000-12
dc.descriptionA thesis submitted to the post-graduate school, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the Award of the Degree of Master of Arts in English Faculty of Arts, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.en_US
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT This study was designed to investigate the processing of syntactic ambiguity in students' writing. The sample of 100 respondents were randomly selected from Federal Colleges of Education, Zaria and Kano. Elicitation experiment is used as a technique for data gathering and within the technique used, various questions were asked. These test questions were divided into four (4) sections: Section A, B, C, and D. The data analysis was based on seventy (70) questions spread across four different sections. This will be done in percentage. The result of the analysis revealed that majority of the students were poorly sensitive to ambiguity. Below is the summary of the information computed from the data analysis. The result showed that majority of the students failed the test which in turn points to the fact that detecting ambiguity in written form poses a great challenge to both students and teachers of English. Ambiguity or double meaning is a student's worst enemy when they write. This is so because it prevents a reader from understanding students intended meaning. Students more often than not know what their intended messages are, but because of haste or inattention or for lack of knowledge they express them in such a way that the reader receives more than one meaning.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2057
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectPROCESSINGen_US
dc.subjectSYNTACTICen_US
dc.subjectAMBIGUITYen_US
dc.subjectENGLISHen_US
dc.titleTHE PROCESSING OF SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY IN ENGLISH: A STUDY OF FEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, ZARIA AND KANO STUDENTS.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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