The Effectiveness of Video Presentation Techniques on Learning of Grammatical Structures among Senior Secondary School Students in Sokoto State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the effectiveness of video presentation techniques (VPT) on the learning grammatical structures among senior secondary school students of Sokoto State, Nigeria.  The main objective was to find out whether presentation of grammar lessons in form of video activities would promote the learning of Noun, Adjectival and Adverbial Phrases among the senior secondary school students in the State.  The population of the study was the senior secondary school students in Sokoto State.  From this population, 400 SS I students were drawn from six senior secondary schools in the State as sample.  The research was carried out using Quasi-experimental pre-test-posttest design where six groups were compared after pre-test, treatment and post-test were administered.  Each of the grammatical structures – noun, adjectival and adverbial phrases – was presented to each of the experimental groups in series of lessons.  Grammar Attainment Test was administered on both the experimental and control groups as pre-test and post-test.  Four null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance.  Statistical procedures of mean, standard deviation, t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used in testing the hypotheses.  All the four null hypotheses were rejected.  The findings of the study showed that the treatments of video presentations of grammar lessons received by the experimental groups were superior to the traditional methods treatment received by the control groups because the experimental groups showed greater gains in the learning of adjectival, adverbial and noun phrases.  In light of the findings, it was recommended, among other things, that teachers of English language should reduce their dependence on traditional methods as means of presenting grammar lessons.  Instead, a multi-modal approach particularly via video should be frequently used.

Keywords: VTR, MT, Noun Phrase, Adjectival Phrase, Adverbial Phrase