Abstract

This study investigated the quality of communication skills and attitude of English language pre-service teachers from two Colleges of Education in Oyo State. The study adopted the survey research design. Five public junior secondary schools were selected from each of the four Local Government Areas in Oyo Educational Zone (Afijio, Atiba, Oyo East, and Oyo West) using simple random sampling technique, making a total of twenty (20) schools. All the English language pre-service teachers in the sampled schools participated in the study. In all, a total number of fifty (50) English language pre-service teachers took part in the study. Two self-designed instruments were used and data collected were analysed using the descriptive statistics (simple percentage, mean and standard deviation), inferential PPMC and t-test at .05 level of significance. Findings revealed that communication skills of English language pre-service teachers is low. There was a significant difference in male and female English language pre-service teachers' communication skills. Based on the findings, it is recommended that reform efforts should be introduced into the teaching of English language and Use of English courses to impact pre-service teachers with needed linguistics and communicative skills and competence.