Relationship between Resource Availability and Performance in French Subject in Public Secondary Schools in Vihiga County-Kenya

Authors

  • Dr. Omwono Gedion

Keywords:

teaching French subject, human resources, school physical resources and financial resources

Abstract

French subject was the first foreign language to be taught and examined in Kenya This subject however has continued to register low enrolment as well as poor performance in the national examination This study examined the role of resource availability on student s performance in French language in secondary schools The study adopted correlational designs The target population included all the schools teaching French subject in Vihiga County Stratified random sampling technique was employed to select 10 schools out of 14 The schools were grouped into National County and Sub-County schools One-way ANOVA technique was used as the main analysis method The findings from the study revealed that human resources school physical resources and financial resources have the most significant relationship with the performance of students in French subject However the study also found that teachers were not exposed to teacher professional development activities and a handful had attended in-service seminar on French language pedagogy The study concludes that most teachers had not attended any refresher courses as well as inexperienced explained why the performance of French was dismal More than two thirds of the schools did not have libraries meaning that learners were denied the opportunity to interact meaningfully with books Some teachers confessed that the funds allocated to their departments were inadequate Therefore the study recommends that efforts should be made by school authorities the Ministry of Education county authorities and other stakeholder to provide enough physical resources like teaching learning resources class rooms and libraries

How to Cite

Dr. Omwono Gedion. (2015). Relationship between Resource Availability and Performance in French Subject in Public Secondary Schools in Vihiga County-Kenya. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 15(G11), 51–78. Retrieved from https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/1598

Relationship between Resource Availability and Performance in French Subject in Public Secondary Schools in Vihiga County-Kenya

Published

2015-12-15