Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Pre-Primary School Pupils’ Literacy Acquisition in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State

Abstract

The study investigated ICT and Pre-Primary School Pupils’ Literacy Acquisition in Uyo Local Government Area. To guide the study, two research questions and two research hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significant. Survey design was used for the study. The population of the study consisted of 508 Nursery two pupils and the sample of 224 pre-primary pupils in Uyo Local Government Area. The instrument entitled “Pre-Primary School Pupils’ Literacy Acquisition Test” was used for data collection. The instrument was subjected to face and content validation by three experts, two from the Department of Early Childhood and Education and one expert from Psychological Foundations University of Uyo. After test- re-test exercise from 30 respondents who were not part of the main study, Pearson Product Moment Correction (PPMC) was used to analyse the data and a reliability coefficient .89 was obtained. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation and independent t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed a significant difference in pre-primary school pupils’ acquisition of letter knowledge of male and female pre-primary school pupils’ reading skills acquisition among pupils taught with the use of ICT and those taught without the use of ICT. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that utilization of ICT resources should be made an integral part of instructional process in pre-primary school to help development learner intellectual abilities