EFFECTS OF SELECTED COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES ON LISTENING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LAFIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NASARAWA STATE
EFFECTS OF SELECTED COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES ON LISTENING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN LAFIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NASARAWA STATE
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2017-10
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ABDUL, MAIRO MUSA
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This study titled „Effects of Selected Communicative Strategies on Listening Comprehension performance among Junior Secondary School Students in Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State‟is aimed at enhancing learner‟s performance in listening comprehension using achievement and reduction communicative strategies. The population of the study was 5491 involving pupils of JSS III of GSS BukanSidi, GSS Lukumanu and GSS Lafia/East. The sample size of the study is made up of 120 research participants grouped into two experimental group and one control group with each group having 40 participants. The research design for the study is the quasi-experimental research design, the reliability index for test instrument is .9. Hypothesis one, two and four were tested with the use of t-test independent statistic, while hypothesis three was tested using ANOVA. Hypotheses one, two and three were rejected while hypothesis four was accepted and retained. The findings of the study revealed that: achievement communicative strategies have significant effects on listening comprehension performance of pupils, reduction communicative strategies have significant effects on listening comprehension performance amongthe pupils. Both the achievement communicative and the reduction communicative strategies were found more effective than conventional teaching approaches (control group). Finally, the study found out that there were no statistical mean differences between the two experimental groups in their mean performance scores. However, achievement strategy was slightly higher than reduction strategy. The study made recommendations that: teachers of English language should be encouraged and motivated to adopt the use of the Achievement and reduction communicative strategies in order to realize pupils high performance in Listening comprehension, that Inspectors and supervisors of education should encourage all English teachers to use both the Achievement communicative and Reduction communicative strategies in order to realize students high performance in listening comprehension among pupils. The study recommends that qualified teachers of English should be sponsored to attend workshops, seminars and talk shows on the effective use of the achievement communicative strategy and the reduction communicative strategy for students‟ high performance in listening comprehension.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER DEGREE IN
TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE M.ED (TESL)
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA
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EFFECTS,, SELECTED COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES,, LISTENING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE,, JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,, LAFIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA,, NASARAWA STATE