Paper short abstract:

The focus of this paper is to find out whether integrating Technology-Aided Teaching and Mother Tongue [TAT & MT] will result in a more substantial impact on subject delivery for teachers and conversely, a more significant academic performance for pupils.

Paper long abstract:

Technological developments in the post-modern age have led to major changes in education in general, opening new vistas in instructing various subject matters. The rate of technological innovation requires rapid changes in teaching purposes and techniques and provides new tools for individual scientific inquiry and learning. Empirical evidence abounds to show the use of the mother tongue as an effective tool to boost pupils’ academic performance and the same stands for the use of technology-aided teaching. This study sets out to show the resultant effect of the fusion of both tools mother tongue and technology-aided teaching] as a tool for teaching and learning. The study will be conducted in 3 selected public primary schools in UKWUANI LGA of Delta state, consisting of a total of 1,200 pupils and 24 teaching staff. This cascades down to 40 pupils and 8 teaching staff per school. The study will adopt intervention teaching tools such as Mother Tongue (MT) and Technology Aided Teaching (TAT) and will measure their respective effect on imparting knowledge on pupils (also their combined effect will be measured). The Ease of Use of the intervention teaching tools i.e MT and TAT, among the teaching staff, will equally be measured. The study anticipates the fusion of both tools [mother tongue and technology-aided teaching] will be more significantly effective on academic performance of pupils than when each tool is applied individually. Conclusions and recommendations will be made in view of the study results.