FACTORS AFFECTING INTERPRETATIVE RESPONSES TO POETRY BY LITERATURE STUDENTS AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL IN THE NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

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dc.contributor.authorFELICIA, AFOLASADE OLUBUNMI BAMGBALA
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-13T08:40:40Z
dc.date.available2014-03-13T08:40:40Z
dc.date.issued1983-01
dc.descriptionA Research Thesis Submitted to the Postgraduate School, Ahmadu Bello University, in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of: MASTER OF EDUCATION in the Teaching of English as a Second Language (TESL) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FACULTY OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. 1983en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study was undertaken to find out the relationship of pre-degree Nigerian students' reponses on two types of poems (African and Foreign) to language capability, literary background, cultural information, sex, attitude towards reading and attitude towards poetry. It also sought to find out the relationship between the students' pre-entry grades in English Language and their pre-entry grades in literature. It was hypothesized that such factors as students' level of linguistic competence, literary experience, sex, attitude to reading, attitude to poetry and the cultural content of a given poem might affect the students' performance in poetry interpretation. The subjects of the study were two hundred and twenty-seven pre-university students from the School of Basic Studies, A.B.U., Zaria; the School of Preliminary Studies, Kano; and the School of General Studies, Bayero University Kano. Seventeen lecturers of Literature, of the three institutions were also included in the study. The results from the analyses of data showed that students' pre-entry grades in both English Language and Literature were highly significantly related. Language competence, and literary information influenced students' performance in poetry interpretation. Sex, as a factor affected students' attitude to poetry. Students' attitude to reading and attitude to poetry were related to students• performance in poetry interpretation. Furthermore, the students performed significantly better in the poem with an African background than the poem with a foreign background. Finally, the majority of students and lecturers thought poetry is the most difficult and recorded the least interest in poetry compared to the other two areas of literature: the play and the novel.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3870
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectFACTORS AFFECTINGen_US
dc.subjectINTERPRETATIVE RESPONSESen_US
dc.subjectPOETRYen_US
dc.subjectLITERATURE STUDENTSen_US
dc.subjectTERTIARY LEVELen_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMen_US
dc.titleFACTORS AFFECTING INTERPRETATIVE RESPONSES TO POETRY BY LITERATURE STUDENTS AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL IN THE NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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