CONCORD PROBLEMS AND MISUSE OF INFLECTIONAL MORPHEMES IN LESSON PLANNING BY STUDENT TEACHERS OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY LOKOJA

Abstract

Language is ubiquitous; it is used everywhere at the same time in
different situations. In view of the above, this study explored the use
of language among science education students of Federal University
Lokoja, as it relates to language use in writing lesson plans. Lesson
planning is one of the major components of teacher education and
training which is carried out using language resources. The study is
motivated by the desire to see how students of science education
navigate through the inconsistencies that characterized the rules of
concord and inflectional morphemes. The methodology adopted was
a selection of some of the sentences written by the students in their
lesson plan for analysis in order to determine their levels of awareness
and usage of concord and inflectional rules in writing error-free lesson
plans. The framework of analysis is a Morpho-syntactic Analytical
Model (MAM) proposed by Awobi, A. M. (2018, p.159). This was
used for the analysis of the research. The findings of this research
revealed that 97.9% of the 48 lesson plans that were examined were
filled with errors. Only 2.1% of the 48 lesson plans were error-free.
The study recommends that students across all departments should
be exposed to concord and inflectional morphological and syntactic
rules in order to make their writings error-free.