Knowledge On The Causes And Solution Of Tense Errors In English Essays Of Secondary School Students

Knowledge On The Causes And Solution Of Tense Errors In English Essays Of Secondary School Students

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

utmost corridor of Nigeria and indeed the whole world are inhibited by different verbal families and communities. This diversity of language within a given community also means that people have verbal choices as regard which language to use in a given environment. Diversity of a language leads to the necessary conception of multilingualism among speech communities. It’s anticipated that people either incompletely or fully shift in their speech. An individual choice of language is determined by different factors who’s spoken to, what’s the content of discussion, where is the place of discussion,etc. these are some of determining factors for language shift. Language shift refers to a process in which the speakers of one language begin to use a alternate language for further functions. Anthony( 2007) explained that language shift can be understood grounded on a social strategies through which an individual or group contend for positions of verbal prestige. also, Baker( 1996) said that language shift is used in the literature to relate to a downcast movement. That is, there’s lessening of the number of speakers in a population, a loss in language proficiency, or dwindling use of that language in different disciplines. Whether a language is being shifted or not, one needs to be at least near effective in order to communicate perform credibly well in the language of instruction. Achieving effectiveness in communication requires communicative capability which is the mastery of the knowledge of language and the capability to use the knowledge in factual communication( Canale, 1983; Canale and Swain, 1980). The knowledge of the language or verbal capability encompasses mastery of lexis, alphabet and the sound system of language. While verbal capability needs to be rounded by sociolinguistic strategy and converse capabilities for effective communication to take place. A hunt of literature on error analysis of spoken textbooks in English indicated a near- absence of attention in this sphere. Studies on spoken English tend to deal with areas similar as speaking chops( Lourdunathan and Menon, 2005; Ramesh etal., 2006), pupil ‟ s disinclination to speak in English classes( Jassem and Jassem, 1997). verbal delicacy of spoken language may be more delicate to study because of the nature of speech. McCarthy( 1998) wrote about real discourses which don’t look neat with well- formed rulings. According to Bartram and Walton( 2002) delicacy in spoken English refers to “ utterances as near to a native speaker’s as possible ”. Brumfit( 1984) appertained to the delicacy of the language content to include alphabet, pronunciation and vocabulary. still, the grammatical delicacy in spoken language is different from written language. Beattie( 1983) stated that “ robotic speech is unlike written textbook; it contains numerous miscalculations, rulings are generally brief ” cited in Halliday( 1986). Brown( 2003) stressed the inappropriateness of taking scholars to use complete rulings when they speak and points out why the notion of utterances rather than rulings are used for describing spoken converse. Brown( ibid) went on to stress that the alphabet of spoken colloquial English doesn’t put the use of complete rulings, making utterances similar as “ Your family? ” and “ Ya wan na come on? ” applicable. Despite the adaptations which need to be made in studies in grammatical and social causes of crimes in spoken language, similar exploration would serve a pedagogic purpose by showing preceptors what learners have learned and what they’ve not yet learned in spoken English. also, this exploration will be a source of comforting to numerous Nigerian scholars especially those with negative station towards English since failure to communicate efficiently in the language of wisdom and technology is tantamount to a total failure in other areas of mortal bid.

Statement of the problem

English plays an important part in the educational system of Nigeria and it’s pivotal at the position of literacy. It’s the language of formal instruction in seminaries. thus, an existent who wishes to reach the peak of his/ her educational career in Nigeria needs to have proper knowledge of English language. Yet a look at the performance in the written English by the scholars in advanced institutions in Nigeria has been rated low. In utmost developing nations in general, and Nigeria in particular, the educational system isn’t well developed as to insure that scholars are duly trained to use the language meetly with respects to their capability to negotiate intelligibility from primary to indeed secondary academy position. It’s egregious to hear in their exchanges being characterized by a lot of problems in the use of alphabet, thereby affecting their overall performance inschool.However, there will be a downfall in the scientific and technological development of the country, If the quality of English spoken by scholars is still poor. To this extend, this work will examine the particular problem of abuse of alphabet arising from crunches of English language accession.

Ideal Of The Study

The general ideal of this was to determine the knowledge on the causes and result of tense crimes in English essays of secondary academy scholars

Specific objects were

1. To determine the crimes in scholars communicative kidney typical of English as alternate language druggies.

2. To identify factors that supports the choice of indigenous language and English.

3. To addresses language masteries with respects to English grammatical orders, that’s nouns, verbs forms and preposition which are the important aspects of communicative kidney.

4. To give some of the social, artistic, and literal causes of crimes among numerous scholars despite the significant part English plays in Nigeria.

5. To give results to the causes of the crimes.

Exploration Questions

1. What are the crimes in pupil’s communicative kidney typical of English as alternate language druggies?

2. What are factors that support the choice of indigenous language and English?

3. To addresses language masteries with respects to English grammatical orders, that’s nouns, verbs forms and preposition which are the important aspects of communicative kidney.

4. What are some of the social, artistic, and literal causes of crimes among numerous scholars despite the significant part English plays in Nigeria?

5. What are the results to the causes of the crimes?

Significance of the Study

By the end of the exploration work, we shall be suitable to determine the crimes in pupil’s communicative kidney typical of English as alternate language druggies in Gombe State. The study will also addresses language masteries with respects to English grammatical orders that’s nouns, verbs forms and preposition which are the important aspects of communicative kidney of scholars and also offers the stylish possible results to tense error in English essay jotting among the secondary academy scholars in Gombe State.

Compass Of The Study

The study covers colorful areas of the responses of some repliers on the content tense error in English essays of secondary academy Gombe State. It made use of primary data gotten from the distribution of questionnaire to some of the areas in Gombe State. The study also brings out the common crimes made by English language scholars in essay jotting.

Defense Of The Study

This study is important as, it attempts to punctuate the major tense crimes committed by the scholars in their speaking and jotting, and to give the continuing result on how to correct the crimes.