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The study examined the influence of teacher’s gender in secondary school students’ performance in Physics in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Subject for the study were two hundred (200) SS II Physics students in randomly drawn from ten secondary schools in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The research design adopted was descriptive survey of the expos-facto research type. ANOVA statistical analysis was used to analyze the tree null hypotheses formulated for the study. The findings showed that there is significant difference in the performance mean scores of boys taught by male and that of those taught by female Physics teachers, there is significant difference in the performance mean scores of girls taught by male and that of those taught by female teachers and there is significant difference in the performance mean scores of students taught by male and that of those taught by female Physics teachers. Conclusion and recommendations were also made in this paper.

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Attitude, as part of sociological variables that influence performance of man in every field of activities, really plays a major role when it comes to learning a second language for literacy proficiency. On a typical note, non-native language is perceived to be ridiculous, inferior and gibberish. On the other consideration, a language of utility though not aboriginal remains lofty, cherished, and feverishly admired. This paper investigates the attitude of Nigerians to English language taking into consideration the status of the language and the roles it plays in Nigeria linguistic territory. Two hundred and forty students were selected from the population of 480306 senior secondary school students in Ekiti State. Multi-stage and purposive random sampling techniques were used in the process of the data collection. Achievement test and questionnaire were used to collect data. The descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentage, mean and inferential statistics of analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) were used to analyze the data collected for the study. Consequently upon the data analyzed, it was discovered that students exposed to different strategies (different methods of teaching) differed significantly in their attitude to learning the second language that serves as the language of the wider communication. Against the normal expectation, students in the control group had a better positive attitude than the students under the activities based methods. This suggests that external motivations in favour of English language are already in place which will supply the needed interest to learn the language. Literacy in the use of English language opens the door of unlimited opportunities in the land.

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