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Language performance and mathematics/science performance: A correlational case study of JHS students in Sekondi/Takoradi and Shama districts.

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dc.contributor.author Owu-Ewie, C
dc.date.accessioned 2023-04-11T11:33:06Z
dc.date.available 2023-04-11T11:33:06Z
dc.date.issued 2012
dc.identifier.issn pp 83-99
dc.identifier.uri http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/1907
dc.description Article en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper is a correlational study aimed at finding out the relationship between language (English and Fante - a Ghanaian language) performance and mathematics and science performances. The main hypothesis tested in the study was whether there is a positive correlation between performance in language (English and Fante) and mathematics and science and whether it is significant or not. The data used for the study involved Basic Education Certificate Examination results of 740 Junior High School students from 10 schools in two district; Shama and Sekondi-Takoradi. The statistical tool used in testing the hypotheses was the Spearman Correlation (t-test) of the SPSS (a statistical package for social sciences). The study identified that there was strong positive correlation between language (Ghanaian language - Fante and English) performance and that of mathematics and science. The correlation between Ghanaian language and mathematics (r = 0.803) and between Ghanaian language and science (r = 0.809), and the correlation between English and mathematics (r = 0.850) and the correlation between English and science (r = 0.873) (a = .05) were found. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Published in The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries ;Volume 5
dc.subject correlational study en_US
dc.subject statistical tool en_US
dc.subject Spearman Correlation en_US
dc.subject hypothesis tested en_US
dc.title Language performance and mathematics/science performance: A correlational case study of JHS students in Sekondi/Takoradi and Shama districts. en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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