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Language-in-Education Policy in Nigeria: The Reality of Teachers’ Language Choices
Get PDFThe study investigated teachers’ choice of the medium of instruction inpublic primary schools in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The study specifically identifiedthe languages used in mathematics classrooms in the selected schools,examined the reasons for teachers choices of language, and determined theeffects of these choices on the teaching-learning process. The data for thestudy were obtained from five mathematics teachers and fifty pupils fromfive purposively selected primary schools through ethnographic observationand structured interviews. Data collected were analysed using MyersScotton’s Matrix Language Framework model, as well as descriptive andinferential statistics. The results showed that teachers in the schools usedboth English and the pupils’ regional languages (such as Yoruba, Igbo andHausa), where the regional languages were the matrix language and Englishwas the embedded language, as the media of instruction in their classrooms.The teachers surveyed claimed that their choice of the pupils’ regionallanguages was necessitated by the fact that it allowed each pupil to learneffectively in his/her languages in a natural, meaningful way as the variousclassroom activities were being implemented. The study concluded thatthe use of pupils’ home languages in multilingual classrooms does not resultin a deficiency in learning, but is a useful strategy in classroom interactionand an efficient way of transferring knowledge to primary school pupils
French Language Teaching and Productivity Enhancement in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges
Get PDFLanguage Teaching has been greatly considered in Nigeria as the basic toolof national integration towards productivity and development. The reason isthat language teaching is seen as a great investment to produce quality ofhuman resources needed for productivity and development. But unfortunatelylanguage teaching in Nigeria is bisected with myriads of problems. Theseincludes; poor funding, poor facilities, inadequate teachers, inadequateteaching aids (Projectors, Computers, Laboratories and Libraries) amongothers. In this paper, we attempt to discuss the concept of Language Teachingand Productivity in Nigeria. The paper examines French Language Teachingin Nigeria and the problem facing the language, bearing in mind the levelof Government’s input to enhance its productivity. It also discusses some ofthe factors bedeviling French language teaching and productivity in Nigeriaand suggests possible ways of improving on the level of its present output.Keys: French Language Teaching, productivity enhancement, Issues andChallenges
Literacy Education as a Tool for Empowering Women In Asa Local Government Area Kwara State, Nigeria
Get PDFThe paper examined the issue of literacy as a tool for empowering womenin Asa Local Government area of Kwara State. The paper was premised onthe fact that when women are literate, they will be more active in theirvarious communities. Their voices will be heard as opposed to their facesbeing seen and this will instill in them the confidence to make progress intheir daily living. The study made use of descriptive survey design, with 211non-literates women randomly selected as sample within the localgovernment. A 10 item questionnaire was designed to elicit responses onliteracy education and empowerment. The data collected were subjected todescriptive and inferential statistical test at 0.05 level of significance. Thestudy discovered that literacy is a tool for fighting poverty, hunger diseases,and ignorance and when all these are fought, an average woman becomesempowered to participate actively in issues of development in her homeand community. The study, therefore, recommended that women should beencouraged to enroll for literacy education programme while, governmentsat all levels should make efforts to fund literacy programme. 
Influenceof School Environmental Factors on Science Students Academic Performance in Physics in South West Local Government Area, Ibadan
Get PDFThe study examined school environmental factors (Library facilities,Laboratory facilities, Classroom, School location, Recreational facilities,Qualified and experienced teachers) and students’ academic performancein Physics in South West Local Government Area, Ibadan, Nigeria. Schoolenvironmental factors can influence the academic performance of sciencestudents in Physics.A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Twoinstruments were used to carry out the research: School EnvironmentalQuestionnaire (SEQ) and Physics Achievement Test (PAT). Simple randomsampling technique was used at selected five (5) secondary schools. Fromthe five (5) selected schools, thirty (30) Physics students were randomlyselected from each of the selected schools, giving a total of one hundredand fifty (150) students. This was to ensure good representation of theselected schools.The results revealed that all the school environmental factors studiedhave significant composite contribution to students’ academic performance.64.5% of the variance in students’ academic performance was explainedby school environmental factors. Five (5) of the environmental factors were significant at 0.05 level, when the relative contribution of each factor wasconsidered, while the rest were not.The study has implications for Ministries of Education, Educationalstakeholders and School Managers/Principals. The Ministries of Educationand Educational Stake holders should endeavor to equip the schools withnecessary facilities. The school managers/principals should ensure that thefacilities are put in effective use and maintaine
Essential Factors Associated with Growing of Improved Cassava Varieties as Food Security Crop in Oyo State, Nigeria
Get PDFEssential factors which influenced the growing of the improved cassavavarieties as food security crop were appraised in this study. Multistagesampling procedure was employed. Purposive selections of two (2)agricultural zones were carried out within Oyo State. At the second stage,two (2) Local Government Areas within the two zones were randomly selected.27% of the populations of registered full-time cassava farmers were randomlyselected for interview giving a total of 201 cassava farmers. Tobit regressionmodel was the analytical tool employed to isolate the critical factors. Theresults show that the growing of improved cassava varieties as food securitycrop among cassava farmers were averagely practiced and done. Eight groupsof factors were isolated with 55.60% contribution to growing of improvedcassava varieties. However, factors such as location of farmer, educationalstatus of the household head, annual income realized from cassava sold,membership in a farmer based organization; favourable price and type oflabour used by household have significant positive effect, while farm sizeand farming experience of the cassava house hold have significant negativeeffect as factors associated with growing of improved cassava varieties. Thefindings from this study suggests that there is urgent need for relevantstakeholders in agriculture and government to consider the factors associatedwith growing of improved cassava varieties by cassava farmers, if cassava tuber production will continue to leverage and promote our economy andserve as beneficial crop in term of food security and safet
Goal Setting as a Sports Managers Motivational Tool for Enhancing Athletes Performance
Get PDFThe paper focused on goal setting as a sport Managers’ Motivational toolfor enhancing athletes’ performance. Goal setting as a motivational tool isa mental training technique that can be used to increase individualcommitment, dedication and perseverance towards achieving a personalgoal. The paper sees goal setting as a motivation tool, sport managers shouldbe familiar with in order to assist athletes in developing personal goalswhich leads to skill development and ultimately peak performance. Thepaper also sees the sport manager as that individual who is professional inthe art of managing sports organization, sets long term missions goals,formulates, implements and evaluates motivational techniques that can beused on athletes to achieve a better performance. The manner in whichsports managers structure the athletic situation, set goal priorities and relateto athletes are primary determinants of the outcome of sports performance,though motivation is the direction of an individual effort. The paper concludedthat setting a goal is the act of being focused, having a mission or visionover what one wish to accomplish or achieve within a given time frame. Ittherefore recommended among other things, that sports manager usemotivational techniques such as goal setting to establish their athletes training regimes as this will promote commitment, perseverance anddedication and thus achieve optimum performance. 
Perceived Influence of Environmental Pollution on the Health of the People in Ilorin Metropolis
Get PDFToxic chemicals and substances escape to the environment through anumber of natural and anthropogenic activities and may cause adverse effectson human health and the environment. The study examined the perceived influence of environmental pollution on the health of the people of Ilorinmetropolis. Specifically, the study sought to find out whether people inIlorin Metropolis perceive air pollution to influence cardiovascular, lungand skin diseases. A descriptive research design of survey type was employedfor the study. A sample of 400 heads of households was selected acrosshousehold in the three Local Government Areas that made up IlorinMetropolis using multistage sampling technique. A researcher developedquestionnaire tagged “QPIEPOH” which was validated by three Jurors andtested for reliability using test re-test method was used for the study. Aresult of 0.76r clearly indicated the instrument was reliable. Chi-squarewas used to analyze the data for the study at 0.05 alpha level of significance.The findings revealed that the people in Ilorin metropolis perceived exposureto environmental pollution as influencing normal functioning of the heart,[calculated ÷2 value (355.5) > table value (16.9)]; lungs [calculated ÷2value (301.5) > table value (16.9)]; and skin [calculated ÷2 value (355.5)> table value (16.9)]. It was concluded that people in Ilorin Metropolishave significantly perceived environmental pollution as a major cause ofheart attacks, unexplained cough, tuberculosis and skin infections. It wasrecommended that the people in Ilorin Metropolis should protect themselvesfrom harmful effects of pollution
Comparative Analysis of Public and Private Secondary School Teachers’ Level of Work Motivation in Ilorin, Nigeria
Get PDFThis study analysed and compared the levels of work motivation among thepublic and private teachers in Ilorin metropolis of Kwara State. It adoptedthe descriptive survey design. Six hundred teachers selected randomly from15 private and 15 public secondary schools participated in the study. Aresearch instrument entitled Teachers’ Self-assessment Motivation Scale(SAMS) was designed by the researchers to gather data for the study. Thereliability coefficient of the instrument was determined through the testretest procedure and Chrombach Alpha formula, its reliability coefficientwas found to be .87. Results revealed that work motivation among majority(61.8%) of the teachers was at a moderate level, while 23.7% and 14.5%of the teachers were at high and low motivation level respectively. Workmotivation among teachers in public schools was higher than among teachersin private secondary schools. Only 5.3% of teachers in public school wereat the low motivation level compared to 23.7% of teachers in privatesecondary schools at the low motivation level. It is obvious from the forgoingthat the work motivation level of teachers in private secondary school is not as encouraging as that of teachers in public secondary schools. In mostprivate schools lack of incentives such as annual salary increment,promotion, sponsorship to in-service training, workshops and conferencesplausibly accounted for their low level of motivation. Based on the results,it was recommended that proprietors of private secondary schools shouldendeavor to provide their teachers incentives that teachers in public schoolsare enjoying. 
Effects of Trimester System and Orientation Programme on Students’ Grade Point Average in Abdul-Raheem College of Advanced Studies, Igbaja, Kwara State
Get PDFOrientation is widely conceived to encompass activities that support thetransition in educational institutions. This paper examines the performanceof a sample of 81 students who graduated in 2014 from the Abdul-RaheemCollege of Advanced Studies. The analysis of students’ performance wasconducted against the three trimesters (First, Second and Third). The soleobjective of the Institution is ensuring that students are performing efficientlyin the three trimesters, including their final grade point so as to allow thestudent secure admission into 200level in any institution of choice. Thestudy, relying on statistical analysis, identified two factors (Trimesters,Orientation) as important determinants of student final performance (Gradepoint). The paper concludes with implications from the study’s findings.The third trimester accounts for the highest correlation coefficient (0.553) with the grade point and p-value <0.05 (which indicate that it is significant).The forward method of variable selection was used to detect the parsimoniousmodel among the possible models. The model with the three independentvariables (first, second and third trimester) has the highest explanation ofthe total variation present in the grade points (dependent variable). The R2value of 0.770 indicates that 77% of the total variation in the grade pointcan be explained by the three independent variables all together. Also, thethird trimester result explains over 50% of the total variation. The outcomealso showed that orientation and trimester is significant to the Grade PointAverage (GPA) scores of students. Based on these findings, a recommendationwas made for the management to improve the orientation programmesgeared towards helping students to maximize learning throughout the threetrimesters. 
Langston Hughes’s Literary Revolution: Deliberate Choice of Jazz, Gospel and Black Poetry
Get PDFThe present work intends to bring evidence to the point that LangstonHughes is a revolutionary. As a matter of fact, like his contemporaries ofthe Harlem Renaissance Movement and later on the writers and poets ofNegritude, he wrote poems that can be termed unconventional. They are socalled because they did not respect any prevailing aesthetic rules governingpoetry in their epoch. These poems are of three categories. Jazz poetry,here Hughes patterned his poems after the rhythm of Jazz music. Thisrhythm was very popular among the Blacks in Harlem. Gospel is anothernew type of poetry created by Hughes. Here the poems are patterned afterGospel music which is also popular with black churches in the Southespecially during the slavery time. The last category of new poetry thatHughes brought to the world of theater was Black poetry, that is, poetrythat was concerned with the black people’s experience in the U.S.A. Poemsfrom all these three categories are analyzed in the paper