COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE IN THE USE OF IRREGULAR VERB BY STUDENTS IN SELECTED SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KANO STATE
COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE IN THE USE OF IRREGULAR VERB BY STUDENTS IN SELECTED SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KANO STATE
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2014-09
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HASSAN, Ayuba
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It is believed by linguists that the irregularities of the English lexical and primary auxiliary verbs are among the causes of the poor performance by the senior secondary schools students in the written English. This study, competence and performance in the use of irregular verb by Students in Selected senior Secondary Schools in Kano State. It identified how the SS 3 students of Kano State schools used irregular lexical and primary auxiliary verbs in the written English. The objective and written essay tests were the instruments used in the data collection. The research questions were answered using frequency counting and the hypotheses were tested using r Pearson at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the tested hypotheses indicated that there was a significant relationship between the use of irregular lexical and primary auxiliary verbs on both objective and the written essay and the performance as r calculated is greater than r critical. However, irregular lexical verbs are more difficult than the irregular primary auxiliary verbs in the objective test. Practice based approach should be used to teach irregular verbs, WAEC and NECO should set questions on irregular verbs, the use of effective teaching strategies are among the possible remedies offered that could eliminate the problem of irregular lexical and auxiliary verbs at the secondary school level.
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BEING A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE TESL SECTION, DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER’S DEGREE IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (TESL) SEPTEMBER, 2014
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COMPETENCE,, PERFORMANCE,, IRREGULAR,, VERB,