Dr. (Mrs.) Abisola Bukola Adedoyin

This study examined the effect of French-Teach-French and Yoruba-Teach-French modes of Instruction on the learning outcomes of Junior Secondary School students in French grammar in Oyo State, Nigeria. The moderating variables used in this study are gender and parental academic status. The population for the study consisted all junior secondary school students in Oyo state, Nigeria. Three schools were purposively selected three Local Governments in Oyo state. Participants were drawn from Eleyele Secondary School, Eleyele, which is located in the North-West Local Government, Immanuel College located at Ibadan-North local Government and Islamic Mission, Agugu at Ibadan North -East. Purposive random technique was used for the selection of schools while intact classes of 274 Junior Secondary school made up the participants.

Students under the experimental group were exposed to French-Teach-French and Yoruba-Teach- French modes of instruction while the students under the control group only took the conventional mode of instruction. Four instruments were used for the study which lasted seven weeks. The scores gotten from the experiment was analysed using the descriptive and the inferential statistics.

The findings revealed that Yoruba-Teach-French had the greatest significant effect on students’ academic achievement and attitude. It also showed that Parental academic status had effect on students’ academic achievement and not on their attitude to French Grammar. Lastly, the two-way interactive effect of Instructional Strategies and Parental Academic Status had a significant effect on students’ academic achievement but not on their attitude to French Grammar.

This study therefore recommended that French teachers should integrate the use of Yoruba language to teach in French Grammar classes. Government agencies should establish professional development programmes that will enable French teachers to acquire the pedagogical skills necessary for teaching French grammar through the use of Yoruba. Future research is encouraged to replicate this study with other aspects of language and other in linguistic settings.