English Language Literacy Skills and Academic Achievement of Urban and Rural Secondary Schools: The Case of High and Low Achievers

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between English language literacy skills and academic achievement between urban and rural secondary schools. The study employed a descriptive design. The subjects of the study were 139 students (73 urban and 66 rural) selected from seven secondary schools in Hawassa University Technology Village local district through a stratified random sampling technique. The data were collected by administering a literacy skill test that contains reading and writing skill items. Then, a t-test was computed to compare the mean differences between rural and urban secondary school high and low achievers’ English language literacy skill performances. And the p -value was computed to determine the level of significance of the obtained mean difference. The findings disclosed that there was a statistically significant mean difference between urban secondary school high achievers in the test scores of English language literacy (0.003, which is < 0.05) in which urban high achievers outperform. Likewise, regarding the subcomponents of English literacy skills, a statistically significant mean difference (0.006, which is < 0.05) was obtained between urban and rural high achievers, which favored the urban ones. On the other hand, the study also confirmed that there was no statistically significant difference between the urban and rural low achievers in their language literacy skill mean scores.

Analyze on Experimental Algorithm of Modern Apprenticeship Soft Skill Training: A Case Study of M Enterprise

“…On comprehensively advancing modern apprenticeship with the work of the notice issued, according to our country by the pilot to comprehensively promote the modern apprenticeship official arrival, modern apprenticeship, compared with the traditional apprenticeship, to a great extent, reflects the profound fusion, work-integrated learning as the core, through the school education and enterprise training, and the combination of theory learning and job practice. Skill operation and professional accomplishment are combined to improve the teaching effect of higher vocational education and realize the comprehensive growth of talents [21]. In the process of enterprise to promote modern apprenticeships, especially must pay attention to the cultivation of the students' "soft skills," experiment of M enterprise, for example, enterprise fine division of jobs, standardized operation flow, and students if limited to simple operation; on the one hand, parents and students worry about become "work" has the potential to become cheap labor; on the other hand, it is not conducive to the enterprise's management talent reserve.…”