Competence And Performance In The Use Of Irregular Verb By Students In Selected Senior Secondary Schools In Kano State

📄 Project Abstract

It is believed by linguists that the irregularities of the English lexical and primary auxiliary verbs are among the causes of the poor performance by the senior secondary schools students in the written English. This study, competence and performance in the use of irregular verb by Students in Selected senior Secondary Schools in Kano State. It identified how the SS 3 students of Kano State schools used irregular lexical and primary auxiliary verbs in the written English. The objective and written essay tests were the instruments used in the data collection. The research questions were answered using frequency counting and the hypotheses were tested using r Pearson at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the tested hypotheses indicated that there was a significant relationship between the use of irregular lexical and primary auxiliary verbs on both objective and the written essay and the performance as r calculated is greater than r critical. However, irregular lexical verbs are...