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Towards Enhancing the Efficacy of Para-Counselling Practices for

Professional and Ethical Consideration in Secondary Schools in Gombe

State, Nigeria

Joel Dogoand M. M. Baba                                                                               1-12

Influence of Family Background and Provision of Literacy Materials on

the Academic Performance of Primary School Pupils in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State

Onah David Onah, Kelechi Joshua Princewill Ihechu, Uwaoma Okechukwu,

Anastasia Ogechi Egwuelu &   A.O. Ovute                                                     13-33

Challenges in Learning English for Hausa Student in Secondary Schools

Sharhabilu Umar Ahmad Bello and Asmau Umar Sulaiman                          34-45

Misuse of English Preposition among Hausa Learners of English Language:

A Case Study of NCE 1 Students of the Department of English FCE Kontogoro

Ahmad Saidu, Ahmad M Bello, Shafayau Hassan, Abbas A Yahaya               46-61

TOWARDS ENHANCING THE EFFICACY OF PARA-COUNSELLING PRACTICES FOR PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN GOMBE STATE, NIGERIA

Joel Dogo¹ and M. M. Baba²

Department of Education,

Gombe State University, Gombe, Gombe State, Nigeria.

Email: joeldogo70@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

This paper examined the roles of teachers as para-counsellors and their enhancement for effective counselling, ethical and professional consideration. The paper discussed about a professional counsellor and qualities of a good counsellor. It also takes a look at professional ethics in counselling, the need for enhancing the efficacy of para-counsellors, i.e guidance and counselling masters in secondary schools for ethical and professional practices. The paper concluded that the need to enhance the efficacy of the para-counsellors or the school guidance and counselling masters becomes inevitable to meet up with the inadequate number of counsellors to help in curbing common social problems among the students. As a way forward, the paper suggested that because of inadequate trained counsellors, school management and administrators should not just place any teacher in the position of a guidance and counselling master, but where there is need to employ the services of an ordinary school teacher, experienced ones  should be considered.  In addition the paper suggested that teachers assigned as guidance and counselling masters be given capacity building training in guidance and counselling so as to give them basic knowledge, techniques and skills in the counselling task.

INFLUENCE OF FAMILY BACKGROUND AND PROVISION OF LITERACY MATERIALS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS IN OGBADIBO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE

Onah David Onah, Kelechi Joshua Princewill Ihechu, Uwaoma Okechukwu, Anastasia Ogechi Egwuelu &   A.O. Ovute

Department of Science Education

College of Science Education

Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria.

Email: onahd79@gmail.com, donsignor4ray@yahoo.com, ouwaoma4@gmail.com, annegwuelu20@gmail.com, ovutealphonsus@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The study investigated family background and provision of literacy materials on academics performance primary pupils in ogbadibo local government Area of Benue State three research questions and hypothesis were raised. The study adopted a survey research design and the study population was 1500 pupils drawn from 30 primary schools in the study area. A sample of 230 pupils was drawn from 10 primary schools was used to draw data. The instrument for data collection was a self-constructed questionnaire. The instruments were subjected to face validation by three experts in measurement and evaluation with a reliability index of 0.82 calculated using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. The instrument was administered to 230 pupils and data collected was analysed using simple percentages to answer the research questions while chi-square test of goodness of fit was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The findings from the study showed that parent educational background have no significant influence on pupils academic performance. Also family size have no significant influence on primary pupil’s academic performance, it was also reviewed that family type has no significant influence on primary pupil’s academic performance. The researcher recommended that, the readiness of the learner, motivation from the parents and school environment should be look into for better academic performance of the pupils.

Keywords: Family Background, Pupils, Academic Performance, Provision of Literacy

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CHALLENGES IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR HAUSA STUDENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

¹Sharhabilu Umar ²Ahmad Bello and ³Asmau Umar Sulaiman

¹Department of Educational Fundation,²Department of Islamic Studies and ³Department of Chemistry

Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria.

Email: mustaphamusa609@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The present study was designed to investigate the problems faced by students in Learning of English at Northern Nigerian Secondary school. The study was limited to public secondary school in Sokoto State of Nigeria. It was observed that in recent times the governments provided a lot of facilities including free training programs for the teachers at secondary level but the Teaching and learning of English is not up to mark. Eighty (80) participants were used for the study which includes 40 male and 40 female. Questionnaires were administered to students. Outcome of the analysis shows that teachers had no proper training of teaching English, proper facilities were not provided and curriculum was not according to the needs of students. These reasons hindered the teaching and learning process of English.

Keywords: Difficulties, Students, English, Northern Nigeria

MISUSE OF ENGLISH PREPOSITION AMONG HAUSA LEARNERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE: A CASE STUDY OF NCE 1 STUDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FCE KONTOGORO

¹Ahmad Saidu, ²Ahmad M Bello, ²Shafayau Hassan, ²Abbas A Yahaya

¹Department of English, Federal College of Education Kontogora.

²Department of Chemistry, Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto,

Email: mustaphamusa609@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

This research evaluates the misuse of English prepositions among Hausa learners of English. English is today’s Lingua Franca, and its evolution is driven by the current demands for information and the need for global communication. This research aim to focuses on misuse of English prepositions among Hausa learners of English. A total number of fifty (50) questionnaires were given and received from the NCE 1 students of Department of English Language, FCE Kontogora. The questionnaires were analyzed based on the respondents. Despite the common notion that Hausa affects the use of English prepositions, the study revealed that most of the errors are intralingua errors that originate from the target language, English

Keywords; Preposition, Hausa, Learners, FCE Kontogora