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EFFECT OF CLASS SIZE ON SENIOR SECONDAY SCHOOL STUDENTS’PERFORMANCE IN ESSAY WRITING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUANGE

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The English Language is the Language Nigerians inherited from the British. Azikiwe (1998) pointed out that the English Language was introduced in 1842 by the first batch of missionaries who arrived in Badagry for education and evangelization. In order to bridge ethno-linguistic barrier .the colonialists implanted the English Language in Nigeria. Today, it is absolutely an essential medium of interaction amongst the different ethnic groups in Nigeria that have no known national language.