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ABSTRACT

This study assessed the effect of early childhood education on the academic performance of children with hearing impairments in Oyo East Local Government Area of Oyo State. The study made use of research question as research instrument and sixty (60) respondents were sampled for this study. According to the research findings, it was established that most of the pupils with hearing impairment who engage in early childhood education did perform so well in academic subjects. As a result, pupils who undergone early childhood education do not experience difficulties in understanding concepts presented to them in abstract during lessons. In fact, many of the pupils born with a hearing loss perform the same as the pupil who becomes deaf after acquisition of language in academic performance. Also, many of the pupils with hearing loss generally perform well during examinations but some pupils with hearing loss tend to repeat examination grades before passing to proceed to other grades. The finding shows that most examinations seems to be too overloaded for pupils with hearing loss and hearing loss did not impose difficulties on the learning of most pupils with learning impairment. Also, many of the teachers communicate with their pupils with sign language and have good relationship with the parents of their hearing impaired pupils. Conclusively, most of the pupils have difficulty concentrating and cannot pay attention for long. Most of the teachers encourage mixing with hearing pupils. Also, many of the students have a very strong temper and loses it easily. There are more than average instructional materials and most of their school does not have functional group hearing aid for teaching pupils with hearing impairment.  

KEY WORDS: Early Childhood Education, Academic Performance, Children, Hearing Impaired

ABSTRACT

This study assessed the Impact of the home and the school environment on the performance of students in English Language (A case study of Afijio Local government Area, Oyo State). The study made use of research question as research instrument and sixty (60) respondents were sampled for this study. According to the research findings, it was established that most of the schools are situated in a serene environment because the schools have enough space to carry out academic functions. In fact, the schools have power supply that can be used to power multimedia instructional materials and there are play gadgets that can be used to refresh the memory after study sessions. As a result of this, there is nothing in the environment of the school that can pose danger to the students. In fact, many of the students do understand the topics taught in a small class compared to large class. Also, large class do keep many of the students lively compared to a small class. Also, many of the students do not feel shy to ask questions that are not clear to them in large class size. The finding shows that most of their teachers do feel happy in teaching large class size than small class and most of the schools classroom setting of large class size is conducive. This shows that many of them affirmed that their school has a well-equipped library. Also, many of them confirmed that there is enough reading materials in their school library that enhance English language performance. The finding shows that most of the students affirmed that reading materials in their school library has no relevance with English language and most of the students do learn English words whenever they read in their school library. Also, most of the students don’t like going to the library for reading.  Conclusively, most of the students from rich family are more brilliant and perform better in their assignments and are less disturbed psychologically than students from poor family background. Also, the average number of students from rich family do have access to read more materials on their courses than students from poor family background. Also most of the students from higher socio-economic class have more advantage than others.  

KEY WORDS: Home environment, School environment, Academic                                  Performance, English Language.