ABSTRACT
This study was carried out to ascertain the availability and utilization of instructional materials for teaching English language in public secondary schools in Orumba south Local Government Area of Anambra state. The population of the study consisted of 26 English language teachers from the 13 public secondary schools in Orumba south Local Government Area. The sample consisted of all the entire 26 teachers in public secondary school.
Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the work, the area of study was all government owned secondary schools in Orumba south Local Government Area of Anambra state. Four research questions guided the study. Questionnaire were use as the instrument for gathering data for the study. The analysis of the data was done using the mean. The findings indicate that: instructional materials for teaching English language to a great extent are not available in public secondary schools in Orumba south Local Government Area. Instructional materials are not utilized by English language teachers teaching English language.
Unavailability of enough qualified English language teachers, language laboratories, modern gadgets and electricity, hinder the effective utilization of instructional materials. Organizing seminar for English language teachers, provision of electricity and language laboratories for schools, are the strategies to the problems militating against the use of instructional materials in Orumba south Local Government Area of Anambra state.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Background of the Study
English language which is the second language in Nigeria has occupied a dominant place in the nation’s educational, political, media and business environment. The adoption of the language dates back to 1862 when Lagos was formally established as a colony by the British colonial masters.
Nigeria as a multi-ethnic and multi-lingua nation holds English language as an intermediary language among the different lingua groups. English language has been made an official language of communication and therefore is regarded as a lingua France in Nigeria.
At all levels of education in Nigeria, English language is the language of instructional delivery. The importance of the mastery and proper usage of the language by both teachers and learners cannot be overemphasized. Every other subjects of study in schools, needs a good command of English language.
Education which is a process of equipping learners with the skills and knowledge needed for a desirable change, makes use of some aids or teaching materials in order to achieve this optimal goal. teachers of yester years, relied on few or no aids in teaching because they believed that knowledge could be forced no matter how unpleasant it is, into the supposedly empty brains of their children. They substituted the came for teaching aids, Bellow (1981) suggest that the result was that learning for most children became distasteful, unpleasant and the school a source of constant fear.
