Assessment of the Language Arts Curricula in the Nigerian Basic Education Program

Assessment of the Language Arts Curricula in the Nigerian Basic Education Program

Overload of the Basic Education curriculum in Nigeria led to the reduction from earlier 11 subjects to seven for Lower Basic, eight for Middle Basic, and nine for Upper Basic. Languages may not be exempt as it may affect performance adversely. For this study, the two national languages (English lang...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of education (Boston, Mass.) Mass.), 2020-04, Vol.200 (2), p.97-103
Hauptverfasser: Ajibade, Yetunde Adedoyin, Awopetu, Emmanuel Olajide, Odejobi, Cecilia Omobola, Ajayi, Hannah Olubunmi
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
African Languages
Content analysis
Core curriculum
Curricula
Curriculum
Educational Quality
Elementary Schools
Elementary Secondary Education
English
Foreign Countries
French
Grammar
Junior High Schools
Language Arts
Language Skills
Native Language Instruction
Phonology
Pragmatics
Second Language Learning
Vocabulary
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Zusammenfassung:Overload of the Basic Education curriculum in Nigeria led to the reduction from earlier 11 subjects to seven for Lower Basic, eight for Middle Basic, and nine for Upper Basic. Languages may not be exempt as it may affect performance adversely. For this study, the two national languages (English language and French) as well as Yoruba (the language of the Southwestern States) were examined. The curricula content of the three compulsory languages was examined based on (except for Yoruba) globally accepted objectives of language learning. Content analysis showed curriculum overload of different dimensions at the levels of the three languages.
ISSN:0022-0574
2515-5741
DOI:10.1177/0022057419875128