Innovation in Language Learning

The right use and placement of adjectives among many of these students have been influenced by several factors including their mother tongue and Hausa language interferences, etc. Among these students who are bi or multilinguals, adjectives ordering and positioning poses a great challenge, due mostly to Hausa language interference, where an adjective can occur both post or pre-nominally.  The works investigates how some of the students studying English as part of their major subject perceive the ordering of adjectives especially in the face of multiple adjectives in a sequence.  Some literatures and observations have proved that many students in this part of the country experience difficulties in ordering sequences of adjectives and even mastering the adjectives, among other proficiency issues in the use of English language. The population of the study is purposively some three and four hundred level students, chosen randomly, proportionately selected (30 students each, from three and four hundred levels).  Data is being collected through researchers- constructed tests of simple identification and arrangement of adjectives in sentences, types and uses of adjectives and translation of some phrases involving adjectives from English to Hausa and vice versa. Findings are not ready as the research is on-going presently. Findings will assist in pedagogic improvement in English as a second language. They will also enhance further research on the effective teaching and learning of English language at all levels of education.

Key words: Mastering, Students, English, Adjectives, Language Art.

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