An assessment of the reading motivation skills of Nigerian primary school teachers: Implications for language and science education

Reading & Writing

 
 
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Title An assessment of the reading motivation skills of Nigerian primary school teachers: Implications for language and science education
 
Creator Okebukola, Foluso Owolabi, Tunde Onafowokan, Beatrice O.A.
 
Subject Education; Reading; Literacy Motivational skills; Reading; Implications
Description Recent studies and frequent news reports have expressed concerns about African children’s decreasing reading habits and dwindling achievement in language and primary science examinations. African children are not reading because they have reading difficulties or because they have no interest in books. This article focuses on the elementary schooling years, when the ability to read and comprehend and the love of reading are developed, using Nigeria as a case study. The article begins with a review of the literature on reading that underscores the importance of nurturing and supporting good reading habits amongst African children. Following a cursory exposition of the categories of schools in Nigeria and the place of reading and science in the National Policy on Education, the remainder of the article presents the findings of a study conducted to assess the reading motivation skills of primary school teachers and illustrates pedagogical ways of developing good reading habits amongst African children. Implications for language and science education are discussed.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
Contributor None
Date 2013-09-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Descriptive survey
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/rw.v4i1.33
 
Source Reading & Writing; Vol 4, No 1 (2013); 12 pages 2308-1422 2079-8245
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Africa; Nigeria European Renaissance Age; Ethnicity
Rights Copyright (c) 2013 Foluso Okebukola, Tunde Owolabi, Beatrice O.A. Onafowokan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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