EFFECTS OF MULTIMEDIA ON THE PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS IN GIWA EDUCATIONAL ZONE OF KADUNA STATE

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2012-12
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BURAIMOH, OLUWASEUN FUNMILOLA
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The issue of poor and wrong articulation of English Language sounds had been noticed among junior secondary school students in Giwa Educational Zone of Kaduna State. An observation by the researcher who went round the schools to interact with students and teachers discovered that most teachers do not teach listening and speaking skills and some of those who taught it were not using appropriate resources that could assist the students. With the little discovery of the researcher in this aspect, the researcher then decided to aim at finding out the effects of multimedia on listening and speaking skills of Junior Secondary School Students in Giwa Educational Zone of Kaduna State. Quasi-experimental design of pretest and posttest group was adopted for the study. The research instrument was performance test for both control and experimental group. The sample for the study was two hundred (200) students purposely selected from a population of (12,104) in twenty-six Government Junior Secondary Schools in Giwa Educational Zone of Kaduna State. One hundred of the sample was randomly assigned to form the experimental group and another one hundred to form the control group. Inferential and descriptive statistics were the statistical tools used for data analysis. Four null hypotheses were tested and analyze with t-test statistic. The finding from the study shows that all the null hypotheses were rejected. The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between the performances in the two groups. The experimental group was found to have higher mean scores of 72.45 in speaking skill and 31.15 in listening skill while the control groups have 27.35 in speaking and 19.70 in listening. Multimedia was found to be effective resources for teaching and learning of English Language listening and speaking skills. It was however concluded that, multimedia enables students to be more motivated and interested in learning listening and speaking skills. Based on the findings recommendations were made among which includes that government should make concerted efforts to provide computer facilities in secondary school and awareness on the need for multimedia in our educational system.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER DEGREE IN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION AND CURRICULUM, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
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EFFECTS OF MULTIMEDIA,, PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,, ENGLISH LANGUAGE LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS,, GIWA EDUCATIONAL ZONE OF KADUNA STATE
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