Effects of WhatsApp in Learning English Language Evaluative Listening Skills among Students of Tertiary Institutions in Sokoto State, Nigeria

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This study investigated the effects of WhatsApp on learning English language evaluative listening skills among students of tertiary institutions in Sokoto State, Nigeria. It was motivated by the retrograding states of listening skills that hampers students’ ability to critically evaluate spoken utterance in communication process. This is quasi-experimental research conducted on 58,038 tertiary education students out of which 80 were sampled. The sample was distributed into experimental and control groups. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The instrument used is a self-developed test tagged “Evaluative Listening Skills Performance Test (ELSPT)”. It is a twenty-item multiple-choice question that tested students’ evaluative listening skills. The instrument was validated by experts in Language Education from the Department of Curriculum Studies and Educational Technology, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. The reliability of instrument was measured by pilot testing through pretest- posttest analysis. The reliability was measured using Kuder Richardson’s R and an r = 0.83 was recorded. This ensures the researcher that the instrument is reliable. All hypotheses were tested at a p = 0.05 level of significance. After the analysis, all the two null hypotheses were rejected. The study found that WhatsApp is effective in evaluative listening skills. The paper recommended that WhatsApp should be included as a medium in the teaching of English language listening skills in tertiary institutions in Sokoto State.

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