LANGUAGE

The study determined the role of English in the academic performance of senior secondary school students in Ovia North-East local government area of Edo state. Following objectives include, to examine the level of English Language proficiency of students and their academic performance, to understand the performance of students in taking English Language as a subject, to investigate the teachers’ level of preparedness in their use of English in teaching English Language in schools and to highlight the challenges faced by students in learning English Language as a subject in schools. The study covers English Language proficiency skills such as reading skills, comprehension skills, and writing skills and students’ academic performance among senior secondary schools in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. It covers four Senior Secondary Schools in Ovia North-East Local Government Area. The sample of the study comprised 120 secondary school students was selected. The study relied on primary data, obtained through administered questionnaire, to generate data from respondents. The data collected were analyzed by the use of descriptive statistics. Furthermore, from the hypothesis tested, it was found that there is a significant difference in the effect of English Language on Senior Secondary School Students‘ academic performance. There is no significant difference on the effects of English Language on gender performance The study recommends that teachers should emphasize the use of different teaching methods as it boosts students academic performance. English teachers should use the strategies that can be used to enhance students‘ proficiency of English as a language of instruction in word problem class.

This study examined the emergence variety of Igbo in Onitsha and the study focused on the speech style of Urban Onitsha youths. The emergence of globalization in the 21 century has made the youth to employ language in a remarkable way to shape and advance to new Identity for urban youth language, emerging speech style of youths which
may be regarded as a new dialect and every day, it continues to experience and go through innovations. The major focus of this research work is to analyse where and how the the emerging speech style affect the lives of the youth and Igbo people as a whole.The research questions are, who are the speakers of youth language in urban Onitsha and how the urban youth language develop.The features of youth language in urban Onitsha, Is urban Onitsha youth language an anti-language? And how the urban language contribute to communication among the youth and the older youth?. The objectives of this study are to identify the speakers of youth’s language in Urban Onitsha. To find out how youth language develops in urban Onitsha, Examine the features of the youth language of urban Onitsha,to determine the status of the youth language in the society and examine how the youth language of urban Onitsha contribute to the mutual understanding and communications among the youths and other members.This research employs both the primary and secondary method of data collecting needed for this research,since the main focus of this research work where youths, particularly youth who are fans of Onitsha language. Part of the data were collected from prominent speakers of Igbo language from the department of Linguistic studies were also used as a method of data collection. It was found from the study that Youth language emerge from the mainstream language and has slangs, heavy vernacular, pidgin,non standard vocabulary, style shifting,and other host of linguistics and others as it's scope and features. Youths as one of the most influential social groups has employed their own language in a remarkable way to shape and advance to new Identity for themselves