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Item Age and Gender as Correlates of English Language Teachers’ Disposition to Computers for Pedagogy in Southwestern Nigeria(Faculty of Arts and Education, Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, 2019-03) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaThe study determined the relationships of age and gender with English Languge teachers’ disposition to the use of computers in western Nigeria. A total of 240 teachers were sampled through stratified random sampling. A twenty-four-item self-constructed questionnaire titled Language Teachers’ Computer Attitudes Questionnaire (LTCAQ) was used for data collection. Copies of the instrument that yielded 92.4 Cronbach alpha were administered to the teachers. Only 217 of the 240 copies were returned and the data obtained were subjected to frequency counts, percentages and chi-square statistical tools to answer one research question and test two null hypotheses. The findings showed that the teachers generally had positive disposition to computers, gender had significant relationship with the teachers’ disposition to computers while age did not. It was concluded that with more advocacy, the teachers can be helped to translate their positive disposition to extensive actual use of the facility. It was then recommended that government should help teachers to easily acquire computers. English Language teacher education programmes should adequately prepare pre-service teachers for effective and efficient deployment of computers for language teaching.Item Analysis of Nigerian Pre-service English Language Teachers’ Internet Use Habits(Nigerian Association of Teachers and Researchers in English as a Second Language (with National Office at the Department of General Studies, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta), 2011) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaThe use of the Internet by Nigerian undergraduates is obviously ever-increasing. This study, taking a cue from the common assertion from research and extant literature that the Internet is an amazing resource for language learning, seeks to determine how judiciously the Nigeria pre-service English teachers use the Internet, especially for their career development. This is deemed necessary because the population that the pre-service teachers are being prepared for have records of consistently poor performance in English language examinations, thus being in obvious dire need of teachers that can exploit all potential language learning resources for result-oriented teaching endeavours. This survey was carried out to get empirically valid data on how frequently they access the Internet, how long they stay online at each contact, and how much of such time is devoted to Internet materials that could enhance their language teaching proficiencies in terms of subject-matter mastery and knowledge of pedagogy. Responses of one hundred and ten pre-service English teachers to a self-constructed and validated nineteen-item questionnaire were the data for the study. Frequency counts, percentages and a bar chart were employed in analyzing the data. The findings reveal that 88.5% of the respondents are Internet-literate, a good number of them do not access the Internet frequently enough and do not stay long online. Search for online journals and materials for school assignments rank fifth of the pre-service teachers’ eight Internet activities.Item Another Look at the National Policy on French Language in Nigeria Using the Lenses of Nigerian Secondary School Teachers(Department of Foreign Languages, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria., 2016-11) Olatunji, Samson Olusola; De Campos, ElisabethThe Nigerian Government, citing important benefits of French language to the country and its people, pronounced French the second official language and a compulsory school subject up to the end of senior secondary education about two decades ago. This paper reports the survey conducted to assess the degree of implementation of these twin policy pronouncements as regards French from the points of view of one hundred and thirty-seven teachers in the languages departments of secondary schools got through multi-stage sampling procedure from eight local government areas of Oyo state. The data collected through copies of a self-constructed twelve-item questionnaire that yielded 93.4 Cronbach alpha validity were analysed with frequency counts, percentages and column charts to answer three research questions. The findings show the respondents’ appalling degree of ignorance of the policy, inadequate level of interest in the language and Government’s non-commitment to the implementation of the language policy. Appropriate recommendations are then made.Item Appraisal of Pre-Service English Language Teachers’ Exposure to Computer Literacy in Selected Nigerian Universities(Department of Teacher Education, University of Ibadan. Ibadan., 2008-12) Olatunji, Samson Olusola; Kolawole, Clement Olusegun OlaniranThe paper investigated the level of exposure of pre-service teachers to computers by Nigerian universities in their preparation programmes so that pre-service teachers become computer literate and skillful in its use in the teaching and learning of English Language at the secondary school level. This is because the status of English as both a compulsory subject and the language of instruction at the secondary school level in Nigeria makes it imperative that teachers use devices that can improve its teaching and help to reduce the problem of mass failure in it. But information available indicates that teachers and students do not utilise computers in the teaching and learning of English because the teachers themselves were not exposed to the use of computers during their preparation. The implication of this is that something drastic has to be done to improve the quality of teachers being prepared by our universities if they are expected to be able to cope with the challenges of teaching this important subject successfully at the secondary school level and beyond. Based on this, appropriate recommendations on what have to be done to improve the computer knowledge and skills of secondary school teachers of English has been made in the body of the paper.Item Appraising English Language Teachers’ Self-Reports of Readiness to Manage Large Reading Comprehension Classes in Selected Secondary Schools in Ibadan, Nigeria(University of Alberta/Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research, 2017-10) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaThis paper is based on a survey that was carried out to find a statistically valid picture of English Language teachers’ attitudes to the teaching of reading comprehension to large ESL classes in the Ibadan metropolis of southwestern Nigeria. The pedagogic practices of the teachers in such a challenging but potentially rewarding situation were also investigated. The far-reaching importance of reading comprehension to the overall success of students in light of frequent failure in major examinations justify the study. The study sample was obtained through a multistage procedure. A total of ninety-eight teachers responded to a fourteen-item self-constructed questionnaire that had yielded 91.2 reliability coefficient. The findings of the data analysis reveal that most of the teachers consider any class of thirty-one students and above as large, the teachers are ill-disposed to large classes, and they neglect to employ any unusual strategies to make teaching reading comprehension both interesting and highly rewarding to either teacher or students.Item Appraising Non-Governmental Interventions’ Roles in Increasing Access to the Study of Selected International Languages at the University Level in Nigeria(Faculty of Education, University of Port-Harcourt, Nigeria, 2016-10) De Campos, Elisabeth; Olatunji, Samson Olusola; Yusuf, Mujitaba Bature; Yusuf, TThe most popularly adduced reason for the advent, establishment and licensing of non-governmental universities in Nigeria is the need to increase access to tertiary education for the teeming population of university admission seekers that possess the pre-requisites but are unable to secure admission just because of inadequate space. Taking cognizance of the fact that non-governmental university proprietors are entrepreneurs that have profit making as a legitimate goal, it should not be unexpected that they would prefer only the course that their market surveys show as most sought after and neglect the ones that are less patronized. This then puts a question mark on the place of access provision which the non-governmental university proprietors would have the world believe as central to their motivation for venturing into the provision of university education. This study, based on proofs from relevant literature of the studies in English, French, German and Arabic languages to national development, sought to appraise the contributions of non-governmental Nigerian universities in increasing access to such disciplines. The survey adopted a multi-stage sampling procedure and collected data through visits to the websites of all non-governmental universities in the country and conducted interviews with relevant officers of sampled universities. Frequency counts and percentages were used in answering three research questions. The findings reveal an appalling general disinterestedness of non-governmental universities in providing access for prospective students of the languages as well as teacher preparation in them. Suggestions are made accordingly.Item Appraising Resource Readiness for Internet-Mediated English Language Pedagogy in Nigerian Universities During Covid-19-Necessitated Lockdown(University of Botswana, 2023) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaThis study was carried out to assess the availability and utilisation of human and material resources for internet-mediated virtual classroom activities by English Language teacher education departments of selected Nigerian universities during the Covid-19 pandemic. The centrality of the English language to Nigerian life and the need to assess how well the experience of that period provided the pre-service teachers with necessary models for the deployment of resources for virtual classroom teaching prompted the study. A simple survey design was used. Two public and two private universities were gotten through stratified random sampling. All the 197 English Language teacher education students of the sampled universities constituted the study sample. However, only sixty-four responded to the 20-item questionnaire that was administered via the google forms platform. The instrument had earlier yielded 91.7 Cronbach alpha reliability. The obtained data were analysed using percentages and charts to answer six research questions. The findings show that lack of prior exposure to online classrooms hindered the faculty members’ and their students’ coordination. Inadequacy and non-affordability of Internet services on campuses and in the students’ neighbourhoods hampered the virtual classrooms. The conclusion, therefore is that the virtual classroom programmes were negatively impacted by inadequate readiness of both human and technological resources.Item Arresting the Monster of Value Crisis through Indigenous-Language-Medium Traditional Education in the 21st Century in the Face of Globalisation(faculty of Humanities, Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Nigeria, 2016-06) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaThe 21st Century has witnessed tremendous developments in various forms. Old values have been displaced b new ones in many communities as a direct result of colonization and subsequent globalisation. The Yoruba race in the southwestern Nigeria and those in the diasporas have not been eft out in the self-marginalisation resulting from trying to ape everything that comes with the tag of westernization and globalisation. This paper observes that the unquantifiable positive values and virtues that have disappeared from among the Yorubas used to be inculcated through Yoruba-medium education system but the English-medium western education system has significantly contributed to their erosion, and with grave consequences, too. It then advocates a perfect blend of the components of the indigenous education with those of the western. This will require the maintenance of the indigenous language since most of the terms, proverbs and idioms that facilitate the inculcation of such values do not lend themselves to direct translation into English.Item Attitude to the Use of ICT in the Teaching of English Language in Selected Junior Secondary Schools in Ibadan Metropolis(Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan, 2006) Kolawole, Clement Olusegun Olaniran; Olatunji, Samson OlusolaThe study aimed at examining junior secondary school teachers’ knowledge of, and attitude to the use of ICT facilities with a view to suggesting the use of ICT in promoting the teaching of English Language and students’ performance. The descriptive survey design was adopted and one hundred and one teachers from seventy-five junior secondary schools were made to respond to the questionnaire used to elicit information on the availability of the facilities, their knowledge attitude to the use of computers and the potentials of ICT facilities in improving the teaching of English Language when available. Results show that a few of the teachers are knowledgeable in the use of some ICT facilities, the teachers had negative attitude to the use of ICT facilities even though some of the schools had adequate facilities to promote the use of ICT facilities and did not use the facility. It was also confirmed that the government has been making efforts to promote the use of ICT facilities in the teaching of the subject. Based on the findings, it was suggested, among others, that Government should embark on enlightenment campaigns to improve the use of ICT facilities, make such facilities available and encourage teachers to become knowledgeable in their use of the technologies in order to improve their teaching of English Language and students’ performance in it.Item Comparative Analysis of Public and Private Universities’ ICT Literacy Skills Contents of Pre-Service English Language Teacher Preparation Programmes(Scientific Research Platform (SRP) - Seychelles, 2011) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaNigerian stakeholders have frequently bemoaned the mass failure of students in English language in communication situations and as a qualifying subject. Computer-Assisted Language Learning has been proved to be a sure panacea to the problem. But studies have revealed language teachers’ gross lack of knowledge of computer literacy. This study, therefore, examined the adequacy of computer literacy contents of the curricula of the university departments training English language teachers in the country. Since it has been generally acknowledged in Nigeria that privately owned establishments provide higher quality services than their publicly owned counterparts, the study also examined computer in language teacher training from the angle of public-private ownership dichotomy. Copies of a self-constructed nineteen-item questionnaire were administered after obtaining a validity of 0.85 Cronbach alpha. The data collected from a total of two hundred and eleven pre-service English language teachers from two public universities and two private ones through stratified random sampling were analysed with the statistical tools of frequency counts, simple percentages and chi-square. The findings revealed that: (i) a Nigerian pre-service English language teachers is offered at least a computer course (ii) private universities offer more computer literacy courses to their pre-service English language teachers than public universities (iii) the computer literacy courses offered to them in Nigerian universities lack pedagogical contents (iv) private universities provide more computer facilities for their pre-service English language teachers than the public ones do (v) those in private universities rate their institutions’ computer literacy programmes higher than their counterparts in public ones rate theirs.Item Critical Literacy and Sustainable Development, Appraising Nigerian Education’s Status(Department of Education, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria, 2023) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaCritical literacy, described as a combination of the skills needed for independent lifelong learning, is an imperative for the attainment of any of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. It develops the individuals to be sensitive to the need to sustain their environments with their acquired knowledge and thereby result in sustainable corporate development. This study, taking the form of critical engagement of secondary data presented in extant literature, delineates the concepts of critical literacy, futures literacy, and sustainable development. It also interrogates the indices of sustainable development and critical literacy to assess Nigerian government and people’s readiness to fully integrate the principle of critical literacy for sustainable development into the curricula of all levels of the country’s education. Appropriate practical steps to be taken by various stakeholders towards education for sustainable development through critical literacy are recommended.Item Developing Writing Skills for School Examination and Successful Work and Social Life(Institute Universitaire PanAfricaine, Porto-Novo and Linguistic Immersion Centre, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2018-06) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaWriting is a skill that is essential to effective communication of facts, feelings, ideas, judgements, and so on, to one’s contemporaries as well as generations to com. Essay writing in various forms is thus taught in schools and examined in both internal and external examinations. As crucial to effective communication as essay writing skill is, students’ performance in essay writing examinations has been generally described as poor. The current discourse, therefore, aims at providing a comprehensive explanation of the various components of the different types of essays, how to master the writing of each, and how the marks for essay writing are distributed among four scoring parameters: Content, Organisation, Expression, and Mechanical Accuracy. It is hoped that the article will be found useful by all stakeholder in the business of ensuring significantly improved student performance in English essay writing and ultimately better quality of writing in the world of work.Item Diversity, Equity and inclusion in Higher Education: Language as an Often Neglected Factor(College Press of Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyom State, 2019) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaThe paper discusses diversity, equity and inclusion as crucial topics in today's world that can be rightly described as a global village. It further asserts that linguistic inclusion and equity must be ensured to facilitate academic achievement, boost national economies, satisfy political necessities, contribute to national safety and security, and achieve other conditionality for sustainable development.Item Diversity, Security and Development in Nigeria: A Re-examination of the Language Factor(Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, 2015) Olatunji, Samson Olusola; De Campos, ElisabethThe paper critically examines the diverse nature of the Nigerian state in terms of language and cultural heritage, the security challenges violently threatening its continued existence and the issues of the country’s underdevelopment. It, through extensive literature review, examines the role of language in fostering national unity and development. The commonly held opinions about the role of the English language in the unification of the many ethnic nationalities that constitute Nigeria are also critically engaged. The Nigerian language policy is then juxtaposed with cases of multi-ethnic nations that thrive in unity in spite of their linguistic diversities and record impressive development through the multilingual policy implementation in education. The paper, therefore, while not disregarding the immense contribution of the English language to the welding of various nations to make the entity called Nigeria, advocates Government’s commitment to the entrenchment of the multilingual policy in Nigeria’s education system because doing so will not diminish but foster greater level of unity, better security and accelerated all-round national development.Item Effects of Senior Secondary School Students’ Home Video and Cyber Sub-cultures on their Reading Habits in a Southwestern Nigerian City.(University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, 2011) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaA poor reading culture has been identified as one of the most prominent of the factors responsible for the perennial mass failure of Nigerian candidates in major examinations. The Internet has been acknowledged as a system that has effectively solved the problem of the dearth of reading materials. Audio-visual materials, of which the home video is a part, have also been proved to be of immense instructional value. That senior secondary school students in Ibadan spend ever-increasing time on the Internet (Cyber) and home video sub-cultures is quite noticeable. This study thus sought to find out if the growth of the two sub-cultures has any effects on the reading habits of the students. A self-constructed twenty-four-item students’ questionnaire that yielded a validity of Cronbach alpha 81.4 was used to collect data from one hundred and twenty senior secondary school students in Ibadan metropolis. The analysis of responses from 113 returned copies found valid reveals that only 58.41% of the students are Internet literate, they spend more time on home video and cyber café activities than reading, there is significant relationship between the students’ home video watching culture and their reading habits, there is significant relationship between the students’ cyber culture and their reading habits, the linear combination of home video viewing and cyber sub-cultures on the students’ reading habits is significant, and the relative contributions of home video viewing and cyber cub-cultures are significant on their reading habits.Item English Language Teacher Education for Sustainable Global Employability in the 21st Century and Beyond(Faculty of Arts and Education, Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, 2022) Olatunji, Samson Olusola; Robbin, Anjola, A.Globalisation has opened, and is still opening, new vistas of opportunities for English Language teachers in many nations of the world. The teachers are, however, not expected to go and propagate the parochial variety of the English being spoken in their countries because doing so will confuse learners as they are exposed to various teachers from different nations. For international intelligibility, therefore, advocacy is made for the promotion of a variety for global use. Such a global variety could only be that which is fashioned after the Standard British English. That this cannot be an easy task, and may be impossible under some circumstances, is acknowledged. The advice here is still that English language teachers should strive for the Received Pronunciation. The challenges this herculean task will pose to English Language teacher preparation curricula in the direction of raising teachers of the language whose services can be found satisfactory anywhere in the world are discussed and suggestions are proffered.Item English Language Teacher Education in Nigeria: Projecting beyond the 21st Century(Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ibadan., 2016) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaThe typical Nigerian teacher of English Language, in comparison with the picture provided about current global practices as obvious in extant literature, is yet to operate with the consciousness of the realities of the 21st Century's special demands. The deficiency is traced to deficits in the pre-service and in-service teacher education offered. The current study identifies some of the areas of lapses and proffers suggestions that could position English Language teacher education in Nigeria for relevance and appropriateness beyond the 21st Century.Item English Language Teachers’ Attitudes to the Promotion of the Nigerian English: A Survey from a Nigerian City(International Association of African Researchers and Reviewers (IAARR), 2012-07) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaAgainst the backdrop of the near-impossibility of attaining a native-like command of the English in a second language situation, which is one of the major factors found to be militating against Nigerian learners of the English language, this study examines the prospects of promoting the Standard Nigerian English to end the futile struggle of aspiring to a perfect mastery of the Standard British English. It attempts ascertaining the psychological readiness of English language teachers to embrace the teaching and assessment of students based on the more easily attainable SNE. Copies of a self-constructed twelve-item questionnaire were validated and administered to one hundred and forty-seven randomly selected secondary school English language teachers in Ibadan. Frequency counts, percentages, and chi-square statistics were employed to answer a research question and test two null hypotheses. The results revealed no significant difference in the language teachers’ attitudes to the promotion of the standardized variety of the Nigerian English based on gender but significant difference according academic qualifications. It is thus recommended that Government undertakes research on the prospects and problems of elevating the standard Nigerian English and meticulously implement the policy emanating from ensuing findings.Item English Language Teachers’ Motivation for Career Advancement in Nigeria: the Place of Desire for Acquisition of Innovative Skills(Nigerian Association of Teachers and Researchers in English as a Second Language (with National Office at the Department of General Studies, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta), 2015) Olatunji, Samson OlusolaCareer advancement should normally include desire for increased job efficiency. Many English Language teachers go for further studies yearly in form of in-service programmes. So, it should be expected that such teachers’ teaching expertise would be upgraded and updated through participation in staff development programmes. But the perennial mass failure of Nigerian students’ performance in major examinations does not portray the innovativeness and pedagogic efficiency expected of the English Language teachers that have gone for further education. This survey was thus carried out on two hundred English Language teachers in their final academic session of in-service courses to determine the place of desire to learn new techniques in their motivation for enrollment in such a major career development scheme. Frequency counts, percentages and bar charts were employed in analyzing data collected through copies of a self-constructed and validated seventeen-item questionnaire. These were used in answering two research questions: What is the degree of the quest for acquisition of innovative pedagogic skills in English Language teachers’ motivation for in-service training? Do the in-service English Language teachers believe that their students can benefit from innovative language teaching strategies? The findings reveal that quest for acquisition of innovative skills ranks low in the teachers’ reasons for enrolling in in-service education programmes and their attitude to innovative practices in language teaching is generally poor because they doubt that their students’ performance in the subject could respond positively to any innovative language teaching strategies.Item Ensuring Nigerian Students’ Increased English Language Proficiency; Mother-Tongue-Based Multilingual Early Education as Facilitator(Institut Universitaire Pan-Africaine, Port-Novo, Republique De Benin., 2019) Olatunji, Samson Olusola
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