Challenges in Teaching English in some of our schools:
1)
Textbooks are insufficient
2)
Language barrier: use of mother-tongue and sheng
prevalent in school
3)
Lack of parental reinforcement- no one at home
encourages students to speak in English
4)
Reading culture is inexistent
5)
Shortage of teachers
6)
Teachers tend to concentrate more on written
exercises than in oral ones.
7)
Spelling and diction often go ignored
8)
Workload: teacher are unable to give enough
composition assignments because they can’t finish grading on time
9)
Direct translation is part of the linguistic
culture in the school
10)
Non-readers(children) are moving up from lower
school to upper primary school without having mastered the sounds
11)
Teachers tend to ignore weak performing students
as they focus on raising the mean
12)
Pupils are admitted throughout the year
13)
Missing language skills: listening, speaking,
reading and writing.
14)
Lack of adequate preparation to deal with
workload and life stresses
15)
Teachers use a lot of theory rather than making
the subject practical. Vary the teaching methods: use flashcards,
dramatisation, poems, songs etc
16)
Teachers blindly following the syllabus rather
than analysing it to get the content needed for each class
17)
Parents avoiding to take their children to
nursery school to avoid payments. Due to FPE, these parents still seek standard
one admission
What solutions do you propose?
