THE TEACHING OF FRENCH IN KADUNA STATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS: DEVELOPING TEACHER’S DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
Ibrahim Adam
Department of French
Faculty of Arts, Kaduna State University Kaduna, Nigeria
Email: adamibrahimalabi@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This work titled “The Teaching of French in Kaduna State Secondary Schools: Developing Teacher’s Development Policies” examines the place of French teaching and learning in the secondary schools in Kaduna, Nigeria. The essence of this work has remained to bring to the fore the glaring veracity that the place of French as entrenched in the National Curriculum of Nigeria and as required by the state is not taking its dimension. The work adopts questionnaire and interview techniques for the collection of data. From the data collected, several factors are seen responsible for this problem ranging from remote cause like lack of French background, more value attached to English, lack of admission, negative attitude of the society and parents among others. The immediate causes include lack of interest, using English in a French class, lack of government support, expensive acculturation among others. The research has equally made recommendations that would be of importance to the improvement of French from both the teachers and the students’ perspective.
