Factors Affecting Learning of English at Secondary Level in District Layyah

Abstract

English is used widely as a medium of communication and also an official language in majority of countries all around the world. By keeping in view, the growing need of English, it is important to develop English language skills.  The present study explored the factors affecting the learning of English at secondary level in District Layyah. All students of secondary level in academic year 2019-2020 from male and female secondary schools of District Layyah are considered as the population of this study. 382 students were selected from male and female secondary schools as a sample of the present study by simple random sampling technique. The instrument used in this study was a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire, developed by the researcher. With the permission of school administration, the researcher personally visited the secondary schools in order to collect data from the respondents and the questionnaire was administered to the students by the researcher. The collected data was analyzed by presenting in frequency distribution tables and percentages. The major findings of the study revealed that understanding level of students is not satisfactory because they have poor reading, listening, speaking and writing skills, the instructional methods used by teachers are not helpful for students to learn English, and syllabus of English needs modification because it is not helpful for students to improve English. Thus, it is recommended that students should improve their level of understanding of English by improving their listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. Teachers should improve their teaching methods by introducing activities, AV aids and assignments to improve their students’ English language skills. Schools should arrange extra language classes for student and classes should not be overcrowded. Syllabus of English should be revised.

    Keywords: factors, learning, english language, students’ understanding level of english, instructional methods of english teacher, syllabus of english.