TABLE OF CONTENT
Title Page
Approval Page
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Table of Content
Abstract
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Study
- Statement of the research Problem
- Research Question
- Purpose of the Study
- Significance of the Study
- Definition of Terms
- Statement of the Hypothesis
- Delimitation of the Study
- Limitation of the Study
CHAPTER TWO
Review of Related Literature
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Design 10
3.2 Population and Sample 10
3.3 Instrumentation 10
3.4 Procedure 11
CHAPTER FOUR
ANALYSIS OF DATA, RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Studies on Various Types of English Tenses 12-50
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 Summary 51-52
5.2 Conclusion 52-53
5.3 Recommendations 53-54
References 55 Appendix 56-57
ABSTRACT
This project attempts to show how English tenses can be effectively mastered by secondary schools students. The study seeks to offer solutions to student poor performance in English language at their certificate year.
The bane of students’ poor performance is the failure on the part of students to use English tenses appropriately and aptly in essay writing and in all other responses.
The project offers when to use a particular English tense and how to construct such tense on the right context and which easy questions calls for a particular tense.
This plan will aid student to manipulate tenses so as to be able to attain excellence in the use of English language for the ultimate aim of communication.
The instruments used include a simple narrative essay question administered on SS2 students. The result indicates that students have not effectively mastered the use of English language tenses. A questionnaire was used in collecting teachers responses its data revealed that teachers in most cases do not teach when to use particular English by tense.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
English language, our colonial heritage is not a foreign language in Nigeria. It is the language of the government. The language which connects various ethnic group in Nigeria together.
It is a Childs second or first language in Nigeria. A child who speaks his mother tongue first before acquiring English language, English is that child second language. Also, in a family where English language is spoken freely, a child speaks English language first before acquiring any other language. Therefore English is that child first language.
The yardstick with which are average Nigeria measures the standard of education in Nigeria is English language. When you hear people say. The standard of Education has fallen in Nigeria they mean school; graduates are no longer able to speak English language flawlessly.
It is not annoying to hear an institution graduate saying my mother has went cut? Or, “I did not saw them when they came? Or I have not see my wallet? There was an occasion when the chief speaker said they cannot do it without the slightest compunction that he had dropped a clangor in such occasion.
The examples I have given are but a tip of iceberg. The mistakes in such expressions arise from incorrect use of tenses. The project seeks to show tenses can be effectively mastered by secondary school students.
A long neglect of teaching of when to use a particular tense and how to construct the tenses at primary and secondary schools levels have dismal effects in attaining excellence in English by school graduates at all level of education.
Most secondary school English language texts merely present English tenses and their aspects showing when to use or construct them which result into incorrect use of tenses, which is the bone of attaining excellence in English language.
The purpose of this project is to offer how tenses can be effectively mastered by secondary school students so as to be able to speak and write and
This study will also make the English language teacher to be aware of how tenses could be mastered by students learning English as a second language. The study will enable students to use English language effectively and to attain proficiency in the language.
- Statement of the Research Problem
The student lack of mastery of tenses has led to their poor use of English and the study intends to show that unless they are properly taught by the English teachers and effectively mastered by students they will not be able to communicate effectively in English language.
1.3 Research Questions
Do English language teacher of secondary schools supplement what English textbooks offer on tenses:
Are English language teachers in secondary schools aware of the inadequate information on tenses offered in English language textbooks for secondary schools.
Are English language teachers in secondary school aware that students common mistakes in essay writing are largely on the wrong use of tenses.
How to get complete project materials
Step 1: make payment of N3000 to any of the bank below
NAME: JOLLERTEX GLOBAL SERVICES
BANK: WEMA BANK PLC
ACCT NO: 0124522105
AMOUNT: N3000
NAME: TITUS AYANI SOLA
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