Journal of Languages and Culture

As a result of globalization, there has been need for people of varying backgrounds to interact at both the official and unofficial levels and certain languages such as English, French, German and Arabic have become second languages in many communities of the world, where they serve as languages of communication, interaction and relationships.Nigeria, being a British colony, adopted the English Language as its official language and invariably, a second language to its citizenry.English is therefore taught as a subject at all levels of the Nigerian educational system.This study examined the correlation between performances in two of these levels; school certificate level and first year the University…