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Strategies for Enhancing the Communicative Competence for Students with Learning Disabilities Gladday, Ataisi Emiya
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 2 No. 5 (2011): October 2011 - Special Issue
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The essence of language teaching in Nigerian schools is to improve the communicative competence of students inEnglish Language. The frequent poor performance of students in English Language means that language teachers need toreconsider the appropriateness of the teaching methods. In view of the fact that there are students with learning disabilities inmainstream schools, this paper highlights some motivational strategies that can enhance the communicative competence ofstudents with learning disabilities. The paper explains in details these motivational strategies and the benefits. Finally, the paperconcludes by calling on language teachers to adopt an eclectic method in language teaching through the use of the pedagogicalstrategies examined. It is hoped that these motivational strategies would be adopted for corrective and remedial instruction inlanguage teaching.
Schools’ Records: A Deficiency Analysis of English Language Exercises in Public Schools Gladday, Ataisi Emiya
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 14 (2012): November 2012 - Special Issue
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This paper examines students’ records of English language exercises in public schools in Rivers State,Nigeria. Students’ record shows classroom practices or interaction between teachers and students as itrelates to the implementation of the national policy on education. Students and teachers in publicsecondary school constitute the population of this study. Data for the study was got through contentanalysis of 30 English language notes from 30 students in five secondary schools in Rivers State. Structuredinterview was also used to elicit data from 15 English language teachers and 72 students in publicsecondary schools to corroborate the students’ record. Simple frequency and percentage are used for dataanalysis. Based on the findings, the paper reveals amongst others that students’ lacks as a result of thequality of language instruction is majorly responsible for students’ proneness to examination malpracticesand mass failure in English language in NECO and WAEC. The paper recommends the provision of anoptimal learning environment for language learning as well as the use of a good supervisory technique toensure instructional quality in language arts in public schools in Rivers State.