International Journal of Language & Literature

The Difficulties Ghanaian Senior High School (SHS) Students Encounter in Studying English Grammatical Concord
Justine Bakuuro

Abstract
The major problem investigated in this study was the difficulties senior high school two students of Islamic and Wa senior high schools encounter in the use of English grammatical concord. The purpose of the study was to identify these concord learning challenges. The instruments used to collect data were intervention tests and questionnaire. The research design included pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention. The study discovered that most of the students could not apply the rules of concord correctly. They had very serious problems with subject-verb concord. Most students applied concord rules correctly to a very large extend after they were taken through the rules guiding concord in the intervention procedure. In conclusion, this research has proved that an intervention procedure is very important in assisting students to overcome their concord learning challenges.

Full Text: PDF      DOI: 10.15640/ijll.v5n2a3