THE INFLUENCE OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ON THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE A CASE STUDY OF SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ETINAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
CHAPTER ONE
- 1 Background To The Study
The learning environment can play a powerful role in student’s academic success. This environment has the ability to affect a young person’s development and is capable of sending strong subconscious messages. A student’s concentration and motivation level can easily be influenced by physiological needs.
The school environment which include the classrooms, libraries, technical workshops, laboratories, teachers quality school management, teaching methods, peers etc are variable that affect students’ academic achievement (Ajayi 2001 and olu chukwa 2000). Hence the school environment remains an important area that should be studied and well managed to enhance student’s academic performance.
The issue of poor academic performance of students in English has been of much concern to the government, parents, teachers, and even students themselves. The quality of education not only depends on the teachers as reflected in the performance of their duties, but also in the effective co-ordination of the school environment (Ajao 2001)
School environment which include instructional spaces planning, administration places planning, circulation spaces planning, spaces for convenience planning, accessories planning The teachers as well as the students themselves are essential in teaching-learning process. The extent to which student learning could be enhanced depends on their location within the school compound, the structure of their classroom, availability of instructional facilities and accessories, it is believed that a well planned school will gear up expected outcomes of education that will facilitates good social, political and economic emancipation, effective teaching process and academic performance of the students. Poor lighting, noise, high level of carbon-dioxide in classrooms, and inconsistent temperatures make teaching and learning difficult.
- Statement Of The Problem
Emphasizing the important of school environment to students academic performance. Oluchukwa (2000). Asserted that school environment is an essential aspect of educational planning. He went further to explain that “unless schools are well sited, buildings adequately constructed and equipment adequately utilized and maintained, much teaching and learning may not take place”. The high level of students academic performance may not be guaranteed where instructional space such as classrooms, libraries, technical workshops and laboratories are structurally defective.
It is therefore the concern of this study to examine the effect or impacts of learning environment on the teaching and learning of English language and to seek preferred solutions to these problems so as to better the performance of students in English language.
THE INFLUENCE OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ON THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE A CASE STUDY OF SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ETINAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
