EFFECT OF MNEMONICS ON NIGERIAN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH STRESS PATTERNS

📄 Project Abstract

The purpose of the study was to empirically investigate the effect of mnemonics on Nigerian senior secondary school students' achievement in English stress patterns. It was also set out to determine the effect of gender and school location as well as the interaction effect of method and gender on senior secondary school students' achievement in English stress patterns. Four research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. A quasi-experimental design was used. The type was the non-equivalent control group, pretest, post-test design. The sample for the study consisted of 272 SSS II students from four co-educational secondary schools in Nsukka Local Government Area, which was the area of the study. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used, first to draw the four co-educational schools and two intact classes from each school, and to assign schools to experimental and control groups. The instrument used for data collection was a 50-item English Stress Patterns Achievement Te...