JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ ASSESSMENT OF TECHNIQUES AND RESOURCES FOR COMMUNICATIVE TEACHING OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study is a meta-assessment aimed at investigating the quality of junior secondary school teachers’ assessment of techniques and resources for communicative teaching of English grammar in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The descriptive survey of the cross sectional type was adopted in this study to select all junior secondary school teachers in one hundred schools in Abeokuta as the target population. The purposive sampling technique was employed to select two hundred and fourteen junior secondary school teachers. A researcher-designed questionnaire was used for data collection. Research questions were answered using item-by-item analysis with mean rating and hypotheses were tested using t-test statistics at 0.05 alpha level. The study revealed that junior secondary school teachers assessed wrongly the techniques and resources for communicative teaching of English grammar. This implies that junior secondary school English language teachers lack proper understanding and appropriate use of the techniques and resources for communicative grammar teaching. Based on the findings, it was recommended that teachers should update their professional knowledge and skills by constantly attending seminars, workshops, in-service training and reading of academic journals as well as other related materials as these would expose them to the new developments in the use of different communicative techniques and resources in teaching. Teacher-training colleges and faculties of education should also ensure pre-service teachers are exposed to communicative language teaching, including its techniques and resources.