TAILIEUCHUNG - Comparison between students’ academic performance and their abilities in written English language skills: A Tanzanian perspective

The number of scientific journals is vast and is growing steadily, which means that there are plenty of publishing opportunities. The fundamental reason behind the growing number of journals is the increasing number of researchers globally. Quite often you can hear researchers complaining that there are no scientific journals for their specific narrow research field. Most often this is not true. Journals exist for wide and varying topical fields. Should you find it difficult to find a suitable one, try considering potential applications for your results. Consequently, think who might benefit of your results and how. It may also. | International Journal of Development and Sustainability Online ISSN 2168-8662 - ijds Volume 1 Number 2 2012 Pages 305-325 ISDS Article ID IJDS12090404 JOURNALS Comparison between students academic performance and their abilities in written English language skills A Tanzanian perspective Sotco Claudius Komba 1 Eugenia Joseph Kafanabo 2 Agnes Fellicia Njabili 2 Ernest Simon Kira 1 1 Sokoine University of Agriculture Tanzania 2 University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania Abstract This article is based on the study which sought to compare between the students academic performance and their abilities in written English Language Skills. The study was conducted at the Sokoine University of Agriculture SUA Tanzania. The respondents were 358 finalists from six degree programmes selected randomly out of the 20 degree programmes at the university. The findings indicated that there was a statistically significant positive relationship between the students abilities in the English Writing Skills Test EWST and their University GPAs r 314 p . However the content analysis of the EWST essays showed that the students had serious problems in spelling using appropriate forms of adjectives punctuation marks simple present tense recognizing passive voice and using relative pronouns and prepositions. Keywords Students Academic performance Language skills Copyright 2012 by the Author s - Published by ISDSLLC Japan International Society for De velopment and Sustainability ISDS Cite this paper as Komba . Kafanabo . Njabili . and Kira . 2012 Comparison between students academic performance and their abilities in written English language skills A Tanzanian perspective International Journal of Development and Sustainability Vol. 1 No. 2 pp. 305-325. Corresponding author. E-mail address sotratz@ International Journal of Development and Sustainability 2012 305-325 1. Introduction Literature indicates that there is a link between academic achievements

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