Abstract:
This research sought to find out the problems of tense and aspect usage among the
Wulugu Senior High Schools students which are in the West Mamprusi District of the
Northern region of Ghana. The study, which focused on the problems of students
using appropriate tense and aspect in writing, was conducted on the students in two
forms. The instrument used was observation. The study reveals that students in
Wulugu Senior High School had serious problems in using correct tense when
writing. Regarding when to use simple tense and when not to use these simple tense,
when to use simple aspect and when not to use simple aspect was a problem in
Wulugu Senior High School. Some of the identified causes of these problems include
the wholesale promotion of students by the policy makers irrespective of
performance, students’ inability to match perfectives, differentiate between a tense
and an aspect and teachers inability to use appropriate method to teach tense and
aspects contributed to students poor academic performance in the examination.
Suggested strategies to these problems include the communicative approach to
language teaching, use of language games, process writing and students centered
activities among others will help improve students’ composition writing skills in the
classrooms
Description:
A DISSERTATION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED
LINGUISTICS, FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES EDUCATION
AND COMMUNICATION, SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF
GRADUATE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA IN
PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
AWARD OF MASTER OF EDUCATION DEGREE IN TEACHING
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGAUAGE (TESL)
AUGUST, 2017