NOTE-TAKING ERRORS AND THEIR EFFECTS IN THE LEARNING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GUSAU
NOTE-TAKING ERRORS AND THEIR EFFECTS IN THE LEARNING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GUSAU
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2008-06
Authors
ODE, GODWIN ONA
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Abstract
This study is a research work on the note-taking errors of some selected secondary
school students in Gusau. It is the analysis of these errors that arise from the
written efforts of students in the course of teaching and learning encounters. Notes
from two hundred and sixteen (216) students which cuts across four (4) secondary
schools randomly selected from a total of fourteen (14) were examined. The study
reveals that in the production of notes by students, either in response to the dictates
of a teacher or as part of a normal learning process, errors of varying types are
committed. Some of these errors are either phonological or semantic while others
are lexical or syntactic in nature. This gives rise to the addition or selection of
unnecessary elements (consonants/vowels) and or misordering or omission of
required elements (consonants/vowels) in the subjccts' graphological practice. It
was further revealed that some of the major causes of these errors are: overgeneralization
of rules of English language, bad pronunciation of English sounds
by students, competence conflict (or transfer of features of source language into
target language) among others. Based on these findings, appropriate
recommendations are made for remediation efforts to be made by students and
teachers.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL AHMADU
BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA-NIGERIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR
THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES AHMADU BELLO
UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIA
JUNE, 2008
Keywords
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ,, NOTE-TAKING ERRORS ,, GUSAU