CHALLENGES IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR HAUSA STUDENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

¹Sharhabilu Umar ²Ahmad Bello and ³Asmau Umar Sulaiman

¹Department of Educational Fundation,²Department of Islamic Studies and ³Department of Chemistry

Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria.

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ABSTRACT

The present study was designed to investigate the problems faced by students in Learning of English at Northern Nigerian Secondary school. The study was limited to public secondary school in Sokoto State of Nigeria. It was observed that in recent times the governments provided a lot of facilities including free training programs for the teachers at secondary level but the Teaching and learning of English is not up to mark. Eighty (80) participants were used for the study which includes 40 male and 40 female. Questionnaires were administered to students. Outcome of the analysis shows that teachers had no proper training of teaching English, proper facilities were not provided and curriculum was not according to the needs of students. These reasons hindered the teaching and learning process of English.

Keywords: Difficulties, Students, English, Northern Nigeria