IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES (IJELCS )

E-ISSN 2545-5702
P-ISSN 2695-2157
VOL. 9 NO. 4 2024
DOI: 10.56201/ijelcs.v9.no3.2024.pg157.166

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Teachers’ Perception of Curriculum Integration of Junior Secondary School Agricultural Science and English Language for Training

Hadiza Alami MUSA, PhD, Joseph Ojoniko AMEH, Victor Ojorka AKOR, PhD

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Abstract

The study was carried out to investigate teachers’ perception of curriculum integration of junior secondary school Agricultural Science and English Language for training. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study with two research questions answered. The population for the study was 200 secondary school teachers in Dekina L.G.A., Kogi State. Sample size of 100 secondary school teachers were selected using the stratified proportionate random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a 17- item questionnaire which was constructed by the researchers and validated by three experts. It gave a reliability coefficient of 0.74 which was obtained using Cronbach Alpha method. The data collected were analyzed with mean and standard deviation. The findings showed that the curriculum is adequate for integration for training, broadfield design approach should be adopted and no significant mean difference between male and female teachers. Based on the findings, the following recommendations were made that collaborative curriculum designing be adopted in Nigeria, teachers were encouraged to pay attention to difficult areas for the students, students should be able to tell their teachers areas they find difficult for proper teaching and learning process etc.

keywords:

Curriculum integration, secondary school, Agricultural science, English Language

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