Mitigating Academic Decline in English Language Skills through Aspectual Diversification and Curriculum?Practice Convergence: A Multi-Theoretical Perspective Based on PTAPD, ADLL, and CPCT

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@article{1713032,
      author = {Philip Abayomi Olorunfemi, Mustapha Bayaro},
      title = {Mitigating Academic Decline in English Language Skills through Aspectual Diversification and Curriculum?Practice Convergence: A Multi-Theoretical Perspective Based on PTAPD, ADLL, and CPCT},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2025},
      volume = {9},
      number = {6},
      pages = {1952-1963},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1713032.pdf},
      abstract = {Persistent decline in students? academic performance in English Language across Nigerian secondary schools has raised critical concerns for educators, curriculum planners, and policymakers. This paper synthesizes three contemporary theoretical contributions: Philip?s Theory of Academic Performance Decline (PTAPD), the Aspectual Diversification in Language Learning Theory (ADLL), and the Curriculum?Practice Convergence Theory (CPCT) to construct a multi-theoretical lens for diagnosing and addressing the crisis. Drawing from national examination trends, curriculum studies, and second language acquisition literature, the paper argues that English Language underachievement is not merely a product of poor instructional quality but a systemic interplay of cognitive overload, undiversified pedagogical practices, and longstanding gaps between prescribed curriculum expectations and classroom realities. PTAPD provides a diagnostic framework explaining the cognitive, structural, and motivational triggers of learning decline; ADLL advances an innovative pedagogical model that promotes multi-teacher, aspect-based instruction for grammar, comprehension, writing, oral communication, and literature; and CPCT highlights the pressing need to realign curriculum documents with feasible classroom enactment. Through a conceptual synthesis of these theories, the paper proposes an Expanded Academic Recovery (EAR) Model that integrates instructional diversification, curriculum streamlining, teacher re-specialisation, and assessment reform as pathways toward mitigating English Language performance decline. This paper contributes a theoretically grounded and practice-oriented agenda for strengthening English Language education in Nigerian secondary schools and provides a foundation for future empirical research in curriculum innovation, language pedagogy, and educational policy reform.},
      keywords = {Academic decline, PTAPD, Aspectual Diversification, ADLL, Curriculum?Practice Convergence, CPCT, English Language Education},
      month = {December},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I6-1713032}
  }