EFFECTS OF PANEL DISCUSSION METHOD ON SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ESSAY WRITING IN HAWUL LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
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This study investigated the effects of panel discussion method on senior secondary students’ achievement in essay writing in Hawul Local Government Area, Borno State, Nigeria. The pre-test post-test quasi-experimental research design of the non-equivalent groups was adopted for the study. The sample consisted 108 SSII students purposively selected from the population of 1,533 SSII students in five public senior secondary schools in Hawul Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Two research questions and two corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. Data were collected using a test tagged Students’ Essay Writing Achievement Test (SEWAT). Data collected were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to test null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that there was a significant effect of panel discussion method on achievement of students in generating ideas in essay writing. The results further indicated that there was a significant effect of panel discussion method on achievement of students in sentence construction in essay writing. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that teachers of English Language in secondary schools should discourage the use of traditional methods of teaching that have proven ineffective but instead encourage the regular use of panel discussion method to improve students’ achievement in essay writing; and Government should orgamise seminars and workshops for the retraining of English Language teachers on the importance and use of panel discussion to develop students’ ability to write effective essays.
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