ABSTRACT

Abstract

The practice of graduating students’ project supervision in Universities in Nigeria is unique mentoring practices that undoubtedly foster psycholinguistic efficiency training on students’ proficiency in English language. With 97 participants including lecturers and graduating students, the study examined project supervision as offering psycholinguistics mentoring on students. Data gathered through questionnaire were analyzed using Mean score, Standard deviation, T-test and ANOVA and it was found that both groups of participants considered project supervision a form of psycholinguistics mentoring and the interactions afford learning of English language across gender and different courses of study of participants. The study suggests a de-technicalization of the English use in research reports and collaboration among teachers of different fields of study to facilitate English Registers on different disciplines to make research writings easy and accessible to the society

Keywords: Mentoring; Psycholinguistics; Research; Supervision; English Language.