CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT AS CORRELATE OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE STUDENTS IN ENUGU STATE
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https://doi.org/10.48047/gg2rpy35Keywords:
School Environment, Academic Achievement, Cultural School Environment, Psychological School Environment, English LanguageAbstract
The study examined the relationship between cultural and psychological school environment and academic achievement of secondary school English language students in Enugu state. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a correlation design. The population of the study consists of 10,560 SSS 2 English language students of 2023/2024 academic session in all the 290 schools owned by the government in Enugu state. A sample of 385 SS2 students was used for the study. The sample was drawn using multistage approach. The instruments used for data collection are a questionnaire and an English language achievement test. The questionnaire is titled: “School environment Questionnaire (SEQ) while the achievement test is titled: English Language Achievement Test (ELAT). The instruments were validated by three specialists/experts. The reliabilities of the instruments were established using Cronbach alpha and Kuder Richardson (KR20) methods. Reliability indices of 0.83 and 0.88 were obtained for SEQ and ELAT respectively. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to answer the research questions while Linear Regression analysis was used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. Result of the analysis revealed among others that; there is a high positive relationship between cultural school environment and academic achievement of secondary school English language students in Enugu state; there is a moderate positive relationship between Psychological school environment and academic achievement of secondary school English language students in Enugu state. Cultural environment and psychological environment are significant associated variables with academic achievement of secondary school English language students in Enugu State. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that; teachers should understand the cultural and psychological school environment of their students and use appropriate instructional strategies that will correspond with the school environment for effective teaching and learning to take place in English Language classrooms.
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