EFFECT OF INSTRUCTION IN READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS INFERENTIAL ABILITY IN ZARIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA.

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2011-06
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IOAHIMIRE, CALLISTER UMEADI.
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This study investigated the effect of instruction in reading comprehension skills on senior secondary school students’ inferential ability in Zaria Local Government Area. Two groups of SS I students, experimental and control, were involved in this study. All conditions were similar in the two groups on reading comprehension skills progrmamme of understanding figurative usage, indentifying a main idea, discovering text organization and recognizing a writer’s point of new using a test instrument standardized by the researcher, test were administered to the students after the lesions. Data collected were analyzed using the mean scores and Anova statistical tools. The results indicated that the experimental group performed significantly better in their posttests compared to the control group, it was therefore recommended that effort should be made to assist the learner achieve comprehension, a basic step to building inferential ability by teaching specific reading sub-skills, during reading comprehension lessons. On the basis of gender there is no significant differencein performance between the boysand girls scores
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS DEGREE IN TESL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FACULTY OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA JUNE, 2011
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EFFECT,, INSTRUCTION,, READING COMPREHENSION,, SKILLS,, SENIOR SECONDARY,, SCHOOL STUDENTS,, INFERENTIAL ABILITY,, ZARIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA.
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