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Influence of School Environment on the Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State
Get PDFBeing accepted as out of the four essential language skills in the language learning process, writing seems to be difficult for numerous EFL learners. This research is an endeavor to explore if learners can grow out of the writing difficulties with topic-based writing activity. 78 third-year students at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of Phan Thiet University in Phan Thiet City, Binh Thuan Province participated in the study. These students were in the two writing classes, one class was treated as the experimental group (EG) and the other as the control group (CG). Research findings exposed the benefits of topic-based writing activity in nurturing learners' writing motivation and enhancing their writing skill. Furthermore, this activity gave students good chances to widen their knowledge on the topic, enrich their emotion on disadvantaged people, and build a friendly learning environment outside the classroom. The necessity and usefulness of the application of topic-based writing activity was predominantly recognized among students
Religion Sectarianism in Yoruba Land and Threats to Its Millennial Tribal Union
Get PDFThe Yoruba people have lived harmoniously as a kin for as long as the tribe has been in existence without religious strain despite the myriads of choices of beliefs that their traditional religion (Iseese) offered; and also, with the advent of foreign religions, Christian and Muslims have continuously live together in Yoruba land, often in harmony with practitioners of Yoruba traditional religion. In the recent age, there has been a curve of trend as the tribal relationships among the Yoruba people have gradually been eroding due to increasing infiltrations and activism of religion extremists. This research examined the damage religious sectarianism wreaked on the kinship relationship among the Yoruba folks. The research was qualitative, and situated within fundamentalism theory, a religious philosophy which depicts advocacy and strict adherence to a religious doctrine or belief. Data collections which are based on both primary and secondary sources are participatory, observatory and library oriented. It is concluded that religion has done more harm than good, but the situation can be redeemed with good understanding of the intended purpose of religion ingrained in the religious zealots
The Place of Effective Planning and Organizational Resource in Manufacturing Firms in Perspective
Get PDFThe research study takes a look at Effective Planning and Organizational resources on Productivity using manufacturing firms in Anambra state Nigeria as a case study. Two objectives were raised; to determine the significant difference between poor planning and organisational goals and to evaluate the significant difference between poor planning and attainment of target customers. The survey used spearman’s rank correlation coefficient to determine the various statistical relationships in the study. The results revealed that effective planning has a relationship with organizational productivity and that effective planning lead to employee’s performance in an organization. Therefore, the study concludes and recommends that managers time and attention is that of improving productivity in manufacturing firms which is very important for both survival and maintenance attaining goals of the firms, therefore the organizations should measure productivity on how well resources are combined and utilized to accomplish specific desirable results to be able to achieve its objectives on organizational need, articulate its strategies and carefully pursue them
Modelling Positive Behaviour: A Vital Strategy in Instilling Positive Discipline Among Secondary School Learners
Get PDFThis qualitative study, guided by interpretive paradigm, explored how secondary schools use modelling positive behaviour strategy to instil positive discipline among learners in Bulawayo Metropolitan Province, Zimbabwe. The study was enthused by the abolition of corporal punishment, exclusion due to delinquent behaviour and adoption of positive, inclusive discipline strategies to maintain order in schools. A case study design purposively sampled four schools in which four school heads, twenty members of the disciplinary committee, four school counsellors, two education officers, four School Development Committee chairpersons and forty prefects participated. Data collected through focus group interviews, semi-structured interviews and document analysis were thematically analysed. The results indicated that secondary schools adopted the modelling positive behaviour strategy to instil positive discipline among learners. New staff members’ orientation focused on conduct, modelling of positive behaviour whenever teachers, learners and parents interact as they perform various activities in the school environment. The study also established that prefects as role models were afforded opportunity to lead assembly sessions. The study concluded that in spite of a few cases of misconduct, it is evident that modelling positive behaviour strategy produced affirmative outcomes in schools understudy. The study recommends further research that explores other strategies that could be adopted by schools to maintain positive discipline particularly in rural schools
Appraisal of Environmental Related Issues in Social Science Subjects in Secondary Schools in Nigeria
Get PDFEnvironmental conservation and management should be a vital component of our school curriculum as a way of investing in our youth so that they can be capable custodians of our environment for the sake of environmental management and conservation for sustainability. The youth have great potential which can only be ignored at our nation’s peril. Given that the environment is our greatest heritage, all measures including EE education must be taken serious to ensure that our youth have the correct attitude towards the environment since our very survival depends on this, this should be included in the school curriculum at all level. This research work investigates how environmental education can be used as a tool to create awareness and participation of secondary school students in environmental management and conversation.
The research design used in this study was descriptive research design of survey type, to examine the curriculum content of secondary school on environmental conservation and management in secondary schools in Ondo State. The population for the study consists of all the secondary school students in Ondo state. Samples of forty-eight (480) students were drawn from ten (10) selected schools by using stratified random sampling technique. Forty-Eight (48) students were drawn from each of the selected schools. The research instrument used for this study was a self-constructed questionnaire for the students of the selected secondary schools. A sect of questionnaire was design, the questionnaire consisted of two sections; A and B: Section A contained the personal data while Section B contained items constructed in four point linkert scale. Findings from the study reveals among others that there are topics related to conservation in social sciences subjects in secondary schools, that majority of teachers are aware of this and also like teaching it. It therefore, recommend that curriculum planners should make topics on environmental issues be made compulsory at all levels of the education
Ri'e Hikun Liman Wanan Communication Media with Rera Wulan Tana Ekan
Get PDFThe traditional people's belief in God as the Supreme Cause of the universe can be expressed in various ways. The methods used are the inner representation of traditional society of the existence of a God who created the heavens and the earth. The Lamaholot people refer to God as Rera Wulan Tana Ekan 'Creator of Heaven and Earth' in a cultural perspective. Rera Wulan Tana Ekan in the perspective of Lamaholot culture is the Highest Being who is believed to have perfect abilities such as creating, maintaining, maintaining, even destroying. These particularities of Rera Wulan Tana Ekan are the basis for the importance of intense communication between humans and Rera Wulan Tana Ekan God’. Ri'e Hikun Liman Wanan ‘right hand corner of the house’ is a medium of human communication with Rera Wulan Tana Ekan ‘God’
Ethnic Issues in China's Northwest Frontier Regions and Its Solutions
Get PDFThe Northwestern Frontier of China is different from the Northwestern China in that it is only a part of the Northwestern China that is close to the border of the country. The geographic space of the northwestern frontier in different periods of Chinese history has changed with the effective governance of the Chinese central government. The ethnic issues in the northwestern frontier have their basic historical background and time and space. The types of ethnic issues in China’s northwest frontier areas are not the same, but they are basically manifested in internal socio-economic and cultural development issues and external ethnic interaction issues, as well as transnational (border) ethnic issues and ethnic religious issues, such as ethnic separatism and extreme religion. Doctrine and violent terrorism are only part of it, not all of it. To this end, it is necessary to "prescribe the right medicine" for different types of ethnic problems and formulate different effective "prescriptions" to solve ethnic problems in order to realize the "Chinese dream" of harmonious socialist ethnic relations in China
The Effect of Human Capital, Total Assets, Total Liabilities on the Net Income of a Company
Get PDFThe problem in this study is that every company wants low costs and high profits for the company, every employee wants a high salary/wages for payment of performance, also how much influence the assets and debts of the company in providing net profit for the company. This study aims to determine the effect of Human Capital, Total Assets and Total Liabilities on the company's Net Profit in companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange LQ-45 index. The sampling method used was purposive sampling, with a total sample of 27 companies, for 2017-2018 there were 54 samples. The results show that Human Capital, Total Liabilities and Total Assets simultaneously have a significant effect on company net income
Evaluation of Total Fertility Rate (TFR) North Sumatera Province, 2017 – 2019
Get PDFThis study aims to look at evaluating fertility increases from factors that affect fertility. The data processed and presented in this paper constitutes RPJMN Indicator Survey and the Program Performance and Accountability Survey (SKAP) of the North Sumatra Province BKKBN from 2017 to 2019. The target population of this survey is households, women of childbearing age 15 to 49 years, families and unmarried adolescents aged 15 to 24 years in selected clusters in the province. The sampling design used was stratified multistage sampling and for the province of North Sumatra the number of selected clusters was 78 clusters spread across 33 regencies and cities. Each cluster is listed (enumerated) and 35 eligible households are selected using systematic random sampling techniques to retrieve data. The SRPJMN/ SKAP sample target in North Sumatra Province covers 2,730 households. Information on fertility rates in this survey is based on the number of births collected from all women aged 15-49 years. The results are the increase of number TFR until 20.3% in three years, the number of ASFR also increase every year. Namely first married in the age range of 15-17 years (60%) in three years. And it also find the number of using contraception In the last 3 years (2017 - 2019) for the Province of North Sumatra, the use of a FP method / device has increased from 49.42% in 2017 to 56.25% in 2019
Aspects of the Causative Morpheme -i- in Tonga (M64)
Get PDFThis paper examines the phonological behaviour of the causative morpheme –i- in Tonga, using the Plateau and Valley Tonga varieties. It identifies the various segments in radical final positions of different verbal forms and seeks to establish how the introduction of the causative morpheme in their environment affects the segments. The paper finds that in some cases the morpheme induces phonological change to the segments preceding the morpheme, with more phonological ‘activity’ noted in Plateau Tonga. The influence of the morpheme identified in the study is that it induces fricativisation, palatalisation, or glottalisation to radical final segments of the verbs where it is introduced, depending on the nature the concerned segment. The conclusion drawn in the paper is that the influence of the morpheme is more pronounced in Plateau Tonga than in Valley Tonga