Browsing by Author "Egwim, Favour O."

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    Impact of eclecticism on Nigerian ESL learners’ communicative competence: A comparative study
    (U. P., 2023-03-31) Dozie, Chinomso P.; Regis-Onuoha, Adaeze; Madu, Lovina I.; Egwim, Favour O.; Okere, Mary C.; Ihejirika, Richard C.
    This study adopted three practical teaching strategies intended to positively affect learners’ writing skill while neutralising negative factors affecting their writing competence. To achieve the study objective which aimed at the assessment of the best teaching strategy to enhance learners’ writing proficiency, a comparative study of three teaching methods(namely communicative, eclectic and task-based methods) was used over a-6-week period as treatment on three experimental groups A, B, C respectively and a control group (D) was taught using conventional method. A pretest was administered on two hundred (200) freshmen/subjects purposively selected from different Departments at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO). A post-test was used to ascertain the outcome of the six weeks period of treatment on their essay writing. Results varied according to groups but, most importantly, Group B showed very significant improvement and control group D showed no significant improvement at all in the post-test assessment while groups A and C’s writing ability improved just marginally at best post-test. Our findings suggest the need to pay attention to eclectic teaching technique as a crucial element in enhancing writing proficiency among learners. The implications and limitations of this research in addition to guidelines for future research are discussed
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    New perspectives in teaching and learning second languages: Enhancing unseen elements and processes beyond theories
    (U. P., 2020) Dozie, Chinomso P.; Regis-Onuoha, Adaeze J.; Udosen, Escor Effiong; Madu, Lovina I.; Egwim, Favour O.
    This article reports on findings from qualitative and empirical research on second language (L2) teaching and learning based largely on second language teaching theories, methods, and approaches which are generally believed to contribute immensely to second language learning. The goal of the study was to ascertain the extent to which these theories when applied to actual second language teaching and learning situations translate to effective/positive feedback. Oral interviews and informal interactions were used to elicit information from 4000 students who gave consent and were randomly selected from a pool of students after the objective of the study was explained. In addition, key Person Interviews (KPIs) were used to confirm, enhance and supplement the information obtained from the oral and informal interactions. The results showed that beyond the basic theoretical matters and their applications in second language teaching and learning, the study subjects as well as KPIs were more inclined to believe that factors such as motivation, interest, commitment, willingness, and determination were crucial to language teaching and learning and which ultimately accounts for competence and performance in the target language. The study concludes that second language teaching/learning involves the mutual action and participation of two parties – teacher and learner for optimum feedback. Further research can be done to explore the perception of second language learners in the early secondary school years to be able ascertain the exact point of disconnect in the process.
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    Requests and linguistic politeness strategies: A case study of Igbo English speakers in Nigeria
    (Australian International Academic Centre PTY. LTD, 2022-02-28) Dozie, Chinomso P.; Chinedu-Oko, Chioma N.; Anyanwu, Patricia N.; Egwim, Favour O.; Otagburuagu, Emeka J.
    This article examined the Igbo native speakers’ perception of request act as well as the linguistic politeness strategies used to achieve this communicative intention in their conversational English as bilinguals. The study participants were 2748 undergraduate Igbo native speakers purposively selected from different Federal and State Universities in the core Igbo-speaking states of South east/South-south Nigeria. To elicit data, a 10-item discourse completion task (DCT) with guided options written in English and designed to evoke politeness strategies in request discourse projecting hypothetical situations was administered to the participants. The results showed that the study samples brought to fore their sociocultural expectations as Igbo by adopting principally the directness strategy in performing the request act. Also, findings revealed that the participants paid attention to certain sociolinguistic variables such as hierarchy, extent of familiarity, which contributed to the variance, observed in their choice of strategies in some contexts. Furthermore, the study noted a measure of linguistic transfer of a tinge of the native language to the target language (English language) as participants tried to fulfill the communicative goals of the request act in the target language. Notably, the findings demonstrated the possibility of communication breakdowns arising from grammatically correct but pragmatically inappropriate utterances from learners hence the need to further emphasize pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic consciousness - the dearth of which has been implicated in the study