ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT) ON THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN FUNTUA, KATSINA STATE
ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT) ON THE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN FUNTUA, KATSINA STATE
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2015-12
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LAWAL, HALIMA MOHAMMED
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Abstract
The study was undertaken to examine the impact of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
on the communicative competence in English of SS11 Students in Funtua, Katsina State. Quasiexperimental
design was employed in the study. The population of the study comprised all SS11
students in the nine public secondary schools in Funtua, Katsina State. For valid and reliable
result, a purposive sampling technique was employed for the sample population in two schools;
Government Girls‘ Secondary School (senior), Funtua (N=10) and Government College (Day
wing-Senior), Funtua (N=10). More so, the frame-work of the study on communicative
competence was adopted in two of the four areas of communicative competence; linguistic and
sociolinguistic competence. Subjects‘ responses on four different tasks; description, debate,
story-telling and role-play were recorded and transcribed and the data collected were analysed
using both descriptive and inferential statistics. In order to find out the significant levels of
relationship that exists between the variables stated in the study, Harmonic Mean and ANOVA
(Analysis of Variance) were used. One major focus of the study is the adoption of
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) for the development of communicative competence
in learners of English as a target language. However, the results of the findings show that CLT
has significant impact on the oral performance of the candidates. The exposure to different oral
language activities has built students confidence and willingness to participate in any language
task. However, the results of the findings of this study will encourage the integration of CLT
approach in our schools‘ syllabuses, textbooks and teaching methodology.
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A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF
POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE
REQUIREMENT OF THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF EDUCATION IN
TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (TESL)
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION,
FACULTY OF EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.
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ASSESSMENT,, COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT),, COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE,, ENGLISH,, SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,, FUNTUA,, KATSINA STATE,