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Candidates' Weakness
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The weaknesses observed include:
- insufficient material to develop chosen essay topic;
- wrong use of tenses and number;
- lack of familiarity with the written word;
- inability to re-state in the candidate’s own words, ideas contained in a passage;
- poor knowledge of the parts of speech;
- ignorance of common literary terms;
- poor knowledge of functions of clauses;
- mindless lifting of portions of the set passages as answers;
- use of text message abbreviations “dat” for “that”, “c” for “see”, etc.
- SUGGESTED REMEDIES
- Candidates should:
- learn the basic grammatical structures of the English Language;
- inculcate the habit of reading widely with a view to improving their vocabulary;
- converse regularly in simple, correct English;
- practise essay writing regularly;
- understand the demands of questions before answering them.
- Schools should ensure that:
- only qualified teachers teach this subject;
- class sizes are not unwieldy;
- in addition to giving their students assignments frequently, teachers also mark such assignments in order to help students identify and correct their mistakes;
- teachers are exposed to workshops and seminars that would keep them abreast of global best practices in the teaching of the English Language.
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