A PEDAGOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH IN SOME SELECTED GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BAUCHI STATE
A PEDAGOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH IN SOME SELECTED GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BAUCHI STATE
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2017-10
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ZUMUNTA, DANLAMI MICHAEL
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This dissertation assesses the teaching and learning process of Literature-in-English in
some selected secondary schools in Bauchi state. The research is based on the
assumption that Literature-in-English, like any other subject in the secondary school, is
expected to be taught in such a way that it will be interesting to both the teacher and the
learner. Visits were made to the selected secondary schools in order to observe class
sessions so that teachers‟ method of teaching Literature-in-English was observed. The
work discovers that the teachers did not even know the basic approaches of teaching
Literature-in- English. Accordingly, they still used the traditional method of the teacher
centred. An attempt is made to illustrate these approaches using some selected texts in the
syllabus of secondary schools. The work is divided into five chapters with chapter one
being the introductory aspect of the work while chapter two is the literature review and
chapter three contains the pedagogy of Literature-in-English in which the basic
approaches to the teaching of Literature-in-English were discussed and observed class
sessions are reported. Chapter four discusses problems observed during the class
sessions. Chapter five is the summary and conclusion where few recommendations were
made. The work discovered that out of the twelve teachers that were interviewed only one
of them has an idea about the approaches to the teaching of Literature-in-English and
doesn‟t use any. Most of the teachers were found not to be qualified to teach Literaturein-English.
The work also discovered that since none of the teachers use the four basic
approaches to the teaching of Literature-in-English the students‟ final result in the
subject is always not encouraging.
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A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO
UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE OF THE MASTER OF ARTS (M.A) IN ENGLISH
LITERATURE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES,
FACULTY OF ARTS,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA
Keywords
PEDAGOGICAL ASSESSMENT,, LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH,, SOME SELECTED GOVERNMENT,, PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS,, BAUCHI STATE