Data Sheet 1_Parental attitudes toward mother tongue and undergraduate language competence

A 2026 survey of 335 undergraduate students from Kwara State University and the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, collected by researcher Olabisi Adedigba. The dataset contains responses from two researcher-developed instruments measuring parental attitudes toward mother tongue use and students' language competence and readiness for internationalized higher education. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between parental attitudes and language competence based on the reported correlation coefficient (r=0.110).
• Investigate the link between language competence and readiness for international academic engagement based on the reported moderate positive correlation (r=0.412).
• Benchmark reported levels of language competence and internationalization readiness against other studies using the provided grand mean scores.
• Study the methodological approach to survey-based educational research in a Nigerian context based on the described instrument development and validation process.

Strengths

• Instruments were validated by experts with reported reliability coefficients of 0.72 and 0.74.
• Statistical analysis includes specific correlation results (r=0.110, p<0.05; r=0.412, p<0.001) and variance explained (1.2%).
• Provides concrete grand mean scores for key constructs: parental attitude (1.35), language competence (2.35), and readiness (2.23).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small in scale (356.9 KB), with a sample of 335 students from only two universities in one Nigerian state.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Olabisi Adedigba via figshare

Collection Method

Descriptive survey research using two researcher-developed rating scales, administered to a sample selected via simple random technique.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 05:29:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kwara State, Nigeria (specifically Kwara State University and University of Ilorin).