Implications of Digital Resources on English Language Pedagogy in Jigawa State Senior Secondary Schools

The importance of digital resources in teaching and learning language has been widely recognized as a catalyst for fostering improved language proficiency. Despite the advantages, most schools in Nigeria grapple with different impediments for proper digital integration. This paper assesses the availability of the digital resources in teaching and learning English in Jigawa State Senior Secondary Schools. The two inter-related objectives are to find out the availability of both hardware and software resources in the selected schools and the types of the digital resources being used in the selected schools in the teaching and learning of the English language. The study adopts descriptive design using purposive sampling the total of sixty students (distributed as 10 per school) are selected from the six sampled schools. The schools are also purposively selected two per each senatorial district to represent the three senatorial districts that made up the Jigawa State. As for the teachers, two teachers of English language are selected in each of the schools. This makes the total number of teacher-respondents as twelve (12). Questionnaires are designed in two forms. One form of the questionnaires is administered to teachers, while the second form is administered to the students. The analysis is done using percentage and frequency. The findings indicated that while there has been an average distribution and provision of digital resources for teaching and learning purposes, there has not been specific provision of such resources for the purpose of teaching and learning English. Also, the results indicated that most of the resources available are in hardware forms, while the software resources are not adequately provided. It recommended that policies and decisions by the governments and other stakeholders should be tailored to consider the provision of language learning resources and also the provision of digital resources should focus more on software resources.