Impacts Of Student Talking Time Strategy On Speaking Skills At Senior Secondary School (sss 1) Students In Zaria Metropolis Kaduna State

This study aimed at examining the impact of Student Talking Time (STT) strategy on the speaking skills of Senior Secondary School students 1 in Zaria metropolis. The design adopted for the study is the Quasi- experimental design. Two secondary schools were selected for the study: Govt. Girls Secondary School, Dogon Bauchi and Sheikh Ibrahim Arab Special Secondary School, Karau-Karau in Zaria metropolis. Purposive and random sampling techniques were adopted to select the participants of the study. The sample of the study consists of one hundred and twenty (120) SSI students; 60 experimental and 60 controlled groups respectively. For data collection procedure, two different lessons (in each group) were conducted, the students‟ performance were studied and analyzed. The students‟ performance were also observed and marked. Drama, Simulation, Discussion and Oral Presentation methods were used in the experimental group. Vygotsky‟s socio-cultural theory was adopted for the theoretical framework. The results of the study showed that STT strategy improves the speaking skills of the students. The result revealed that STT strategy can also help to foster students‟ capacity to generate new sentences of their own. In the light of the results of the study, the researcher had given some recommendations, such as recommending teaching of speaking skill in all aspect (grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, etc) of the Target Language and suggested some areas for further researches; higher number of students and school can be used under this research framework. The strategy can be examined in higher classes or level of education

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