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STUDENTS' ATTITUDE TOWARDS MOTHER TONGUEINSTRUCTION AS A CORRELATE OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: THE CASE OF SIDAMA


ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to investigate students' attitude towards Sidamalanguage as a medium of instruction and its determination on the languageachievement.To carry out this aim, 391 students' were chosen from 7 Sidama Zone upperprimary schools. In addition to background information students were given withattitude and motivation questionnaires to measure their inclination towards the nativelanguage instruction. In the mean time students' one year cumulative GPA of Sidamalanguage were obtained from the record offices.Stepwise multiple regression analysis was conducted to find out the combinedand independent effect of the independent variables. Path analysis was employed toexamine the relationships among the predictor variables and between the predictorvariables and the criterion variable. Comparison of means and chi-square techniqueswere used to find out the significance of difference between sex subgroups andbetween rural and urban dwellers.As the result indicated students of grades 7 and 8 had positive attitude towardstheir vernacular language instruction with out sex differences, and attitude wasidentified as a vital predictor of Sidama language achievement.On the basis of these results it was suggested that teachers and educationalpractitioners should give due attention to attitude and motivation during instructionbesides the cognitive factors 

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