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Effects of Electronic Communication on the Mechanical Accuracy of Secondary School Students Ambrose, Lynda
Ahmad Dahlan Journal of English Studies Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023): September
Publisher : Universitas Ahmad Dahlan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26555/adjes.v10i2.617

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This study examined the effects of electronic communication on the mechanical accuracy of  the written essays of  private senior secondary school students in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. The study employed a quantitative research approach with the use of questionnaires and direct observations as instrument used for data collection. The focus is on mechanical accuracy which involves grammar, punctuation and spelling (GPS) in the students’ essay writing. Private secondary schools in Oredo LGA in Edo State are 36,  out of these, 10 schools were selected using the convenience sampling technique;15 students from each school were also purposively selected, making a total of 150 students. In all, 101 questionnaires were well filled out and retrieved successfully. However, the researcher rounded it up to 100. Simple percentage method was used to analyse the data. Results showed that 89% of the students make use of mobile phones for communication  more than any other means of electronic media, while 64% used their phones for social networking. The  results further showed an equilibrium in  the percentage of students of whom the social network/communication affect their grammar and spelling which rates 41% each. Only 18% responded that it affected their punctuation. However, a close observation showed that inconsistent spelling, inappropriate use of punctuation marks, concord and wrong use of capitalisation are major pitfalls in the written essays of the senior secondary school students.
Multilingualism in Nigeria: A socio-linguistic investigation of Ewan Alufohai’s The Moto-Boy Okugbe, Monday A.; Ambrose, Lynda
Teaching English as a Foreign Language Journal Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.12928/tefl.v3i1.1046

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This study is a socio-linguistic examination of Ewan Alufohai’s The Moto-Boy. The text is a Nigerian novel, pre-occupied with the challenges facing road transportation and those involved in the business. This paper, therefore, attempts to explore the interplay of the linguistic variables of function, use and usage of contextualization and Nigerianization of Nigerian English (NE) in the text, by exemplifying these with some empirical data, drawn from the text. Adopting the sociolinguistic theoretical model, derived from the systemic functional (SF) approach, the selected data in the text are subjected to analytical investigation, to show that Nigeria is a multilingual society. The study reveals that language variations employed in the text, are reflections of the uniqueness and peculiarities of the diverse cultures inherent in Nigeria, with a view to underlying the indispensability of multiple language situation in a multilingual society. The analysis of the features of language variations in the text selected, is aimed at enhancing communication in Nigeria’s diverse cultural setting. Therefore, the findings in the study shows that the use of creative language variations in the text enhances readers’ deep understanding of their meanings in the context of use.
Co-Authors Okugbe, Monday A.