Effects of Communicative Language Teaching Approach on Students’ Performance in Narrative Essay and Informal Letter Writing among Senior Secondary Schools in Sokoto State, Nigeria
- August 11, 2018
- Posted by: RSIS
- Category: English
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume II, Issue VII, July 2018 | ISSN 2454–6186
UZOMA, Bethel Nnabugwu Ngozi1, IBRAHIM, Mohammed2
1Ph. D, Department of English Language and Curriculum Studies, Biga College of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria
2Ph. D, Department of Curriculum Studies and Educational Technology, Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria
Abstract: – This study investigated the effects of Communicative Language Teaching approach (CLT) on students’ performance in narrative essay and informal letter writing among 33 secondary schools in Sokoto State, Nigeria. The major objective of the study was to find out if teaching students essay writing skills using the CLT approach as against a Traditional Teaching Method, the Audio-Lingual Method (ALM), would make them perform better in their narrative essay and informal letter writing. The SS1 student population of the eight selected senior secondary schools was 3,104 and the population sample of the study comprised of 644Senior Secondary One (SS1) students drawn into four comparison groups from eight secondary schools in Sokoto State, Nigeria. The design for the study was quasi-experimental and intact classes were used. The study instrument was Language Performance Tests (LPT), with four separate designs. The groups were subjected to a pretest before they were exposed to treatments. The experimental groups were exposed to treatment using the CLT approach while the control groups were exposed to treatment using the ALM. The groups were also subjected to a posttest. The study tested four null hypotheses. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance using statistical procedures of mean, standard deviation, and the t-test. The four hypotheses were rejected. The findings of the study showed that students taught aspects of narrative essay and letter writing using the CLT approach performed better in their essay writing than students taught the same using the ALM. The researchers recommended that teachers should adopt CLT that makes the learner perform better in essay writing and that teachers should be trained and re-trained on the application of the method to teaching essay and letter writing skills in particular and English Language in general.
Key Words: Essay Writing, English Language, Language Teaching, Audio Lingual Method (ALM), Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
