Availability and Utilization of Modern Instructional Resources for Effective Teaching of English in Junior Secondary Schools in Abia State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the availability and utilization of modern instructional resources for effective teaching of English in junior secondary schools in Abia State, Nigeria. Five research questions and five null hypotheses guided the study.  Descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population is thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-five (39,975) consisting of twenty-seven thousand and forty-one (37,041) st udents and two thousand nine hundred and thirty-four (2,934) teachers. Taro Yamane Formulae was used to determine the sample size 396 students and 350 teachers. A sample of 746 teachers and students was used for the study. The sample was determined using Taro Yamane Formulae. Two staged sampling technique was employed for the study. The study employed proportionate stratified random sampling to select a representative sample of students and teachers from Abia State. To ensure a representative sample, simple random sampling was employed to select the schools using an online random number generator tool. The instrument was validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was determined using the test-retest reliability method and it yielded reliability indices of 0.86 and 0.84. The data collected were statistically analyzed. The findings of the study showed that modern audio visual instructional resources are available in low extent for effective teaching of English. The study further revealed that there was no effective utilization of modern audio visual resources for effective teaching of English. The researcher recommended among other things that school administrators should not only provide modern instructional resources but ensure that they are utilized to a very high extent.