EXPERIMENTING LEXICAL QUALITY INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUE FOR TEACHING READING: A REAWAKENING OPPORTUNITy FOR UPPER-BASic BASIC SCHOOL PUPILS IN KADUNA METROPOLIS
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2020-09
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The study examines the how lexical quality can enhance the teaching and
learning of reading at the upper-basic school level as an instructional tool.
The poor achievement of pupils in (UBSCE) English language necessitated
this study. It is believed that this study would be of benefits to all the
stakeholders and pupils in the education sector. Attempt was made to
review the challenges of lexical quality, it nature and evolution as an
instructional technique with a view to suggesting ways of improving the
quality of teaching and learning of English reading comprehension, and
English language in general. Quasi-experimental design with pre and post-
test, non-randomised and non-equivalent was adopted for data collection.
The population for this study consisted of all upper-basic school pupils in
Kaduna metropolis, Two schools were purposively sampled. The sample
was categorised into one experimental group and one control group of fifty
respondents each. The data collected were analysed using the percentage,
mean, standard deviation and analysis of Co-variance (ANCOVA) to test the
two formulated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance, Findings revealed that; the general level of pupils' achievement in reading comprehension
was low before the treatment (42.79) but high after the treatment (77.76)
urrespective of gender: The paper recommends that teachers of English
language should wake up and move in line with modern trend in order to
lprove the teaching and learning of reading comprehension. Teacher
trainers should re-modify the teacher training programmes to re-orientate
the teachers toward the use of lexical quality instructional technique.
Curriculum planners and developers should not be left ouw in this regard.