Al-Hikmah University Journal

The study was carried out to determine the impact of O’Connor ICT tool on pronunciation of English language words among Junior Secondary School students.  Three research question were raised for the study: Would there be any significant effect of O’Connor ICT tool on Mother Tongue accent? Is there any significant effect of ICT tool on students’ observance of syllable break among JSS students ? Would there be any significant effect of O’Connor ICT tool on observance of word and sentence stress? Quasi experimental research design was used with a population of 120 students.  Simple Random Sampling technique was used to group the students into experimental group and control group respectively with thirty students in each group.  Group A, the experimental group were taught with the O’Connor ICT tool on syllable break, word and sentence stress and mother tongue while group B, the control group were taught without any ICT tool.  T-test of significance, standard deviation and mean were the statistical tools used in answering the research questions.  The study findings revealed that those students taught with O’Connor ICT tools showed significant improvement.  Therefore, teachers are encouraged to use recorded pronunciation passages like O’Connor ICT tool in teaching pronunciation.