Email this article Gender Variation in Undergraduate Students’ Achievement in English Language
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The study examined gender variation on Nigerian undergraduate students’ achievement in Transformational Generative Grammar (ELS 301) at Delta State University, Abraka. A sample of 53 females and 30 males were drawn from the population of the third-years students of the university. An ex-post facto research design was used for the study. Students’ scores for the examination conducted at the end of the course in 2017/2018 academic session were used for data analysis. The research questions were answered using mean while the independent samples t-test was employed in testing the null hypothesis at .05 level of significance. The study showed that the female undergraduate students had a better mean achievement in ELS 301, although the mean achievement of students did not differ significantly by gender. The use of other universities for more research for the purpose of generalisability was recommended.
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