%0 Journal Article
%T Towards Demystifying Students¡¯ Phobia for Phonetics and Phonology: Digital or Analogue Instructional Strategies?
%A Bankole Olagunju Faloye
%A Oluwatoyin Tolu Obateru
%A Olaniyan Ayomiku Samuel
%J Open Journal of Modern Linguistics
%P 471-480
%@ 2164-2834
%D 2022
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojml.2022.124034
%X This study investigated the effect of phobia on analogue and digital interactive instruction on students¡¯ performance in phonetics and phonology. Phonetics and phonology facilitate enhanced speech proficiency among pre-service English teachers preparing to teach in Nigerian primary and secondary schools. In addition, this study considered the impact of digital-based pedagogy on students¡¯ disposition to eliminate students¡¯ phobia of phonetics and phonology. The population comprised all part 1 students studying English as a course in Nigerian colleges of education located in the southwest. The study adopted the quasi-experimental research design of the three-group pretest-post-test type. The study used Multi-staged sampling procedures in selecting a sample size of 90 students due to the seating capacity of language laboratories. As a result, 33 and 34 students were distributed to the experimental and experimental groups, respectively, while the control group comprised 33 students. Data was retrieved with two research instruments: Spoken English Performance Test (SEPT) and the Students Disposition Questionnaire (SDQ). A relatively high-reliability coefficient of 0.78 and 0.82 was obtained for SEPT and SDQ, respectively. Descriptive statistics answered a research question for the study, while the only hypothesis formulated was tested at a 0.05 level of significance. The findings, among others, highlighted the significant potency of digital instructional strategies in demystifying students¡¯ phobia of phonetics and phonology.
%K Students¡¯ Phobia
%K Phonetics and Phonology
%K Digital
%K Analogue
%K Teaching  Strategies
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=119053