By the released of 2013/2014 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination result it was clear that academically Nigeria was sitting on what Leadership newspaper of August 29th, 2014 edition called “time Bomb.” According to Leadership, issue p.4 31 states fail WASSCE as a result Teachers and, students trade blame. The climax so to say came when the 2012/2013 JAMB result recorded mass failure prompting the Federal government through the Ministry of Education to reduce the tertiary entrant score to as low as 180/400 for University entrants and 150/400 for polytechnics and colleges of educations and other tertiary institutions and its has remained at that score five (5) years down the line. Poor academic performance has been a disturbing issue especially in recent time with parents and teachers trading blame on the causes. Key words: Nigerian Pidgin, students, performance, English studies Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 Background of the study The study suggests that a more robust examination on the research topic involving other academic communities be conducted Besides a comparative study on the impact of Pidgin on students’ performance in other English speaking countries should be carried out in order to investigate how its been handled. The study recommends that the use of Nigerian Pidgin in an academic community such as Junior Secondary School Bwari, Abuja should not be encouraged. The major results of the study indicate that 94% or the respondents posits that Nigerian Pidgin affects academic performance while the test of hypothesis with a degree of freedom (df) of 4 indicate that there is a significant relationship between Nigerian Pidgin and students’ performance in English studies. The major research questions include: What are the effects of Nigerian Pidgin on students’ performance in English studies? Are students allowed to use Nigerian Pidgin in academic works? The general objective of the study is to find out the impact of Nigerian Pidgin on students’ performance in English studies while the hypotheses posit for the study include Ho1: There is no significant relationship between Nigerian Pidgin and students’ performance in English Studies Ho2: There is no significant relationship between students’ use of Nigerian Pidgin on the outcome of their academic performance. Likert-type scale arranged in order of ‘very significantly’, ‘significantly’, ‘neutral’, ‘insignificantly’ and ‘very insignificantly are used’ to get respondents opinion on the variables.
Primary data are collected through the use of questionnaire with open-ended variables while secondary data collection is from existing literature on the project topic. In conducting the research the researcher uses qualitative and quantitative approach method and sources data from both primary and secondary sources. This study examines the effects of Nigerian pidgin on students’ performance in English studies using selected students of Junior Secondary School, Bwari Abuja as case study. EFFECTS OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN ON STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH STUDIES: A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED STUDENTS OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, BWARI, ABUJA Abstract
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