Morpho-Phonological Misuse of English: A Cause of Poor Performance amongst Cameroonian Secondary School Students
This work sets out to undertake a modification of a research endeavour undertaken in 1987 on An Error analysis of the Spoken English of Cameroonian Undergraduates; an M.A. thesis of the University of Ibadan which was never published and about three decades down the road the problem still persist and actually affects many users of English language in a multilingual community such as ours. It became very pertinent when the situation of secondary school students in their speech and performance in English Language in examinations especially the G.C.E. examination, a prerequisite for entrance into the University remained poor. Thus this work is revised to investigate the extent to which Anglophone students deviate in their Morpho-Phonological use of English and how these deviations contribute to their poor performance in English Language as well as impede communication between them and other users of the language. The first thing to note is the fact that English is the medium of instruction in Anglophone schools in Cameroon. In other words, all school subjects are taught through the medium of English.
