School Location and Students’ Proficiency in Oral English
Abstract
The influence of nurture on achievement has been an age long controversy that has remained unsettled. This informs the need for research on the possible effects of nurture, as dictated by school location, on the oral English of students. A total of one hundred and twenty students were randomly selected from some schools in the central part of Ekiti state to find out if school location plays a role in proficiency in oral English. Results of a t-test at 0.5 level of significance showed that there was an influence of location (rural and urban) on secondary school students’ proficiency in oral English.
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Ehiozuwa. A.O., H.A. Bodunde 2000. “Sex and Location as Variables in Standards Progressive matrices Performances” Journal of Problem Solving in Education 1 (2) pp15–18.
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Ferguson, G. A. 1981. Statistical Analysis in Psychology and Education New York: McGraw Hill.
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Roy, M. 1975. “Bengali Difficulties with the Sounds of English”. English Language Teaching Journal. London: Oxford University Press, Xxx (1), 25-36.
Smith. B. 1969. “Oral English for School Certificate” Journal of the Nigerian English Studies. Ibadan: Oxford University Press. Vol 3(2), Page 51-62.
Spencer, J. (ed) 1971., “West Africa and the English Language” The English Language in West Africa. London: Longman Group Ltd. Pp 25-27.
Stevenson, K.J. 1969. “Reflections on the Teaching of Spoken English in Nigeria” Journal of the Nigeria English Studies Association. Ibadan: Oxford Univeristy Press. Vol 3(2), Pp 227-238.
Tiffen, B. 1976. A Language in Common London: Longman Group Ltd.
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