Factors Affecting The Teaching Of English Course In Deprived Communities, Ghana
Keywords:
teaching, deprived community, english, reading, vocabularyAbstract
Teaching English can be a very difficult task depending on the type of students the teacher is administering the English instruction to. However, in communities which lack adequate facilities, the teaching of the English Language can pose a bigger challenge to the instructor who is committed to doing a good job. In order to establish the veracity or otherwise of this assertion, the Juaboso Senior High School was chosen as a case study for this research. A total of two hundred and forty (240) respondents were surveyed in the school using the quota sampling technique. Sixty respondents were selected from among students and the English language teachers in the school. The data collected was analysed using Percentages, Mean and Standard Deviation. After the data collected was analyzed, the study found out that that there are indeed very serious problems with English language teaching in the deprived area. The paper, therefore, recommends among others that qualified English teachers should be deployed to deprived areas to teach English while the education authorities must make teachers’ handbook and other tools available to them to guide and enhance their teaching skills and methods.
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