ASSESSING IMPACT OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ORAL ENGLISH IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

ABSTRACT
This study investigated the impact of language laboratory for effective teaching and learning of Oral English in some selected secondary schools, the study examined the teachers’ attitude to improving oral English on students.
The researcher used questionnaires to collect data from 36 teachers of English Language in the four selected schools n Ilorin West Local government of Kwara state.
Chapter one is the introduction which comprises; the background, purpose of study, significance of study.

Chapter two is the review of literature while chapter three focuses on methodology; that is design, population, instrument for data collection.

Chapter four is on analysis, discussion of findings and chapter five deals with conclusion and recommendations.
 CHAPTER ONE
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The theme of this study aim at finding out the impact of language laboratory for effective teaching and learning of oral English in Junior Secondary Schools in Ilorin West local Government of Kwara State.
Language according to Webster’s Encyclopedia English Dictionary: is the body of words and systems use by people who are the same community or nation, the same geographical area or the same cultural tradition. Language is human speech either spoken or written.

Whenever there is a human society, there is a language.
Lieberman (1984) argues that human language is built on a biological based that is present in other primates, and that both humans and animals have laurite neural mechanisms which are matched to their respective sound producing mechanisms.
Yet most linguists will readily agree that only humans have language proper and that the possession of language put humans at considerable advantage compared with others species.
English is one of the major languages out of about 5000 estimated language spoken in the world.

About 200years ago, English was simply the language of less than 15 million peoples. Today, however, English is used by more than 300 million people.

English is one of the most influential and fast growing languages spoken across the globe.

Today, English is used in several countries, in the United States, America, Canada, New Zeeland and some parts of West African Countries.

Equally, about half of the world’s scientific and technical journals as well as newspapers are printed in English.

The spread of English is further enhanced through the establishment of British council and United States information services by the British and U.S. governments respectively with centers and libraries in various countries including Nigeria.

All these factors have therefore made it easy for anyone who understand and speak English, and move around major cities in the world to communicate effectively with one another.
According to Anibueze (2007), English language is a lingua franca.

As lingua franca, it is the language for unification.

English language had remained a very important tool for socialization and bureaucratic activities in Nigeria, since the day of colonialism.
In Nigeria today, English remains the language of the country, students can hardly make commendable progress in their studies without adequate mastery of English through which most of the course in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions are taught and examined.
Oluikpe (2005) stated that the basic criteria for assessing students proficiency in writing and speaking are generally control of the basic grammatical categories such as punctuation, tense, number and gender etc.
Language Teaching in Nigeria had some deficiencies.

The reason for this deficiency is our English teachers who are not well trained and also non-professionals
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The problem of study is to find out if the impact of English laboratory has no teaching and learning of Oral English on junior secondary schools.

The most serious problem confronting learners of English language is that the language is not widely used in their immediate environment.

As a result these learners have no exposure to the language of his immediate environment has many teachers made up of people they interact with daily.
There is always interference of mother tongue in students.

The following problems are identified in the language laboratory for the teaching of oral English language.
1. Problem of large class and inadequate teaching recourse
2. Lack of communication skills on the part of teachers and students
3. Problem of teaching technique
4. Problem of pronunciation
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The aim of this research is to highlight the impact of language of laboratory for effective teaching and learning of oral English in Junior Secondary Schools.
1. To find out if there are enough language laboratories available for effective teaching of oral English in Secondary schools
2. To find out the major inputs of the language laboratory on the effective teaching and learning of English language as its affects the teachers of the language in secondary schools.
3. To find out the major impact of the language laboratory on the effective teaching and learning of the English language as it affects the teacher trainee of the language in secondary schools.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The findings from this study will provide valuable information to the government, Nigeria educational research Centre, the curriculum planners, through this research and awareness will be created for the installation of language laboratories in our schools.
The research is expected to enable teachers of English language to identify problems that hamper the teaching of oral English and how to deal with them.

Students will also be aware of their major “road blocks” to speaking and be able to find means of overcoming them.
To draw the attention of concerned parties about the significance of language laboratory.
To motivate and encourage the learners to use language laboratory and to show the learners about the ways of using language laboratory in learning pronunciation.