Student Perception of Home Background and the Aquisition of English Language in Mbonge Municipality

The present study was intended to find out students perception of home background and the acquisition of English Language in Mbonge Municipality. Specific objectives were to examine how financial status of parent influence English language, investigate how educational level of the parents influence language acquisition, to examine how parent marital status influence English language acquisition and to find out how parenting style affect language acquisition. A descriptive survey research design was used on a sample of sixty 60 students using the simple random sampling technique. A closed ended questionnaire was used for the collection of data. The respondents were required to strongly agree, agree, strongly disagree and disagree to identify student perception of home background and its influence on language acquisition. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistic particularly frequencies, averages and percentages. The findings showed that, financial status of the parents influence English language acquisition, educational level of parents' influences language acquisition, marital status of parents influences English language acquisition and parenting style affect language acquisition. It was therefore concluded that students' perception of home background influence English language positively in Mbonge municipality. Bongwong Bruno ""Student Perception of Home Background and the Aquisition of English Language in Mbonge Municipality"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2 , February 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29960.pdf Paper Url : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/29960/student-perception-of-home-background-and-the-aquisition-of-english-language-in-mbonge-municipality/bongwong-bruno