GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

This study was to assess the teachers’ communication skills and students’ academic performance in linguistic. Expost facto was adopted for the study. The study was conducted in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised of teachers and student in tertiary institutions in Akwa Ibom State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 4 tertiary institutions in Akwa Ibom State. From each institution 5 teachers and 50 students were randomly selected from University of Uyo; 3 teachers and 30 students from Akwa Ibom State University; 3 teachers and 30 students from Akwa Ibom State College of Education and finally, 3 teachers and 30 students from Akwa Ibom State polytechnic. This gave a sample size of 154 respondents (made up of 14 teachers and 140 students) which constituted the sample size for the study. The instrument titled “Teachers’ Communication Skills and Students’ Academic Performance in Linguistic Questionnaire (TCSSAPLQ)” was used for data collection. Face and content validation of the instrument was carried out by one expert in test and measurement from University of Uyo to ensure that the instrument was accurate for the study. Cronbach Alpha technique was used to determine the level of the reliability of the instrument. In this case the average reliability coefficient obtained was 0.89 and this was high enough to justify the use of the instrument. The researcher subjected the data generated for this study to appropriate statistical techniques such as simple regression in testing the hypothesis. The test for significance was done at 0.05 alpha level. The study concluded that teacher’s communication skills play a very crucial role in building the student academic performances. Teachers communication skill motivates the students to enhances their abilities in subject matter like linguistic. Therefore, student academic performance is highly influenced by the teacher’s communication skills of speaking, attitude, gestures and facial expressions. One of the recommendations made was that teachers should exhibit a good communication skill while teaching to improve the student’s academic performances.

KEYWORDS:           Teachers’ Communication Skills, Students’ Academic Performance, Linguistic, Tertiary Institutions and Akwa Ibom State