ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFECIENCY AS A PREDICTOR OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL PHYSICS STUDENTS’ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN ADAMAWA STATE
Abstract
The study predictor effects of English language proficiency on Physics Students’ academic achievement in Adamawa state Nigeria was guided by four research questions and four hypotheses.
The study adopted correlational survey research design. The study sample was 378 Physics students from 18 secondary schools from 3 randomly selected education zones out of the five education zones in Adamawa state. The instruments used for data collection of this study consist of “WAEC
Adapted English Language Proficiency Test (WAECAELPT)” and “WAEC Adapted Physics Achievement Test (WAECAPAT)” with coefficients of reliability values at 0.75 computed using Kuder Richardson 21 method. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts and simple percentage for answering research questions while the hypotheses were tested using linear
regression analyses for hypothesis one (H1), hypothesis two (H2) and hypothesis three (H3) while hypothesis four (H4) was tested using multiple linear regression analysis at 0.05 level of significance.
The study has shown the English proficiency is of immense importance in physics academic achievement.