Assefa, Adamu (2002) Students' Attitude Towards Mother Tongue Instruction as a Correlate of Academic Achievement: The Case of Sidama. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate students' attitude towards Sidama language as a medium of instruction and its determination on the language achievement. To carry out this aim, 391 students' were chosen from 7 Sidama Zone upper primary schools. In addition to background information students were given with attitude and motivation questionnaires to measure their inclination towards the native language instruction. In the mean time students' one year cumulative GPA of Sidama language were obtained from the record offices. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was conducted to find out the combined and independent effect of the independent variables. Path analysis was employed to examine the relationships among the predictor variables and between the predictor variables and the criterion variable. Comparison of means and chi-square techniques were used to find out the significance of difference between sex subgroups and between rural and urban dwellers. As the result indicated students of grades 7 and 8 had positive attitude towards their vernacular language instruction with out sex differences, and attitude was identified as a vital predictor of Sidama language achievement. On the basis of these results it was suggested that teachers and educational practitioners should give due attention to attitude and motivation during instruction besides the cognitive factors.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Educational Psychology |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LC Special aspects of education P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Andriamparany Edilbert RANOARIVONY |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2018 10:06 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2018 10:06 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/8322 |
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