This paper employed a descriptive survey study of students’ academic
performance in General English 1V (GSE 221) of 2012/2013 academic session in
the Kwara State College of Education (Tech.) Lafiagi, Nigeria. Two hundred and
eighty-six students were sampled for the study. Pro- foma was used to collect
data. Frequency count and percentage, frequency bar chart, t-test and
descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data collected. The results
showed that students’ academic performance in General English was awfully poor.
Findings on gender depicted that better academic performance in English was not
gender specific. The paper concluded that language studies should be enhanced
if students’ effective communication and good academic performance must be
achieved. Recommendations were suggested at the end of the study.
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