Veritatis Gaudium: Multidisciplinary Journal of Postgraduate Studies

The motivation for this research is to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, which is geared towards quality education, while enabling students’ academic performance. Hence, the research examined incorporating audio recording instruction for teaching pronunciation on junior secondary students’ performance in oral English among rural communities of Bwari, Abuja. A quasi-experimental design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consists of all junior secondary students in the rural communities of Bwari, with a total number of 9,137 students across 13 schools. A sample of 122 students from two schools was selected. One of the schools was assigned to the experimental group, while the other school was assigned to the control group. Data was collected using the Audio Instruction Performance Test (AIPT), which assessed students’ performance in pronunciation. Findings from the study revealed that there was no significant difference in the pre-test performance of the students in both the experimental group and the control group. However, a significant difference was observed in the post-test performance of the students in the experimental group. The result suggests that when audio recording is incorporated into pronunciation instruction in oral English, it could positively improve students’ performance in rural communities. The study also finds that the effective use of audio recording could enhance students’ overall performance in the English language. Based on the findings of this research, it is recommended that English language teachers should incorporate audio recording for teaching oral English lessons.

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