ENHANCING THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE USING LEARNER CENTERED STRATEGIES

Abstract

The effective teaching and learning of English Language has been a major source of concern to educators throughout the ages. The use of such strategies as cooperative learning, inquiry, think-pair-share, brainstorming, peer teaching, and jigsaw should be encouraged.  These strategies are quite different from the teachers-centered approach in which the teacher is all in all and pupils are just passive learners.  This study explored how some of these interactive strategies can be used in teaching English language in order to achieve English language curriculum objectives.  The study recommends that strategies which involve active participation of pupils in learning should be adopted for teaching and learning, government should employ more English language specialists to primary schools, training and retraining. Programmes should be mounted for teachers, head teachers should regularly go round to monitor teaching activities, and re-tooling English language teachers on the use of these interactive strategies for more productive teaching and learning.