Abstract
Quality Education is the bedrock foundation of primary level of educational pyramid. It helps not only in the development of individuals but also improve their living standard at academic and professional domains. Government of Punjab has initiated a literacy and numeracy drive movement to enhance the literacy rate. English is the major focus of concern in Literacy and Numeracy drive (LND). Present study has been conducted to study the attitudes, instructional practices and difficulties faced by the English primary teachers while teaching English through quality drive. The study was descriptive in nature based on the mixed method i.e. quantitative and qualitative approach. It was conducted in the rural and urban schools of the elementary wing of tehsil Khanpur district Rahimyar Khan. The results reflected that teachers showed positive behavior towards teaching English through LND. But they faced many problems like unhealthy environment, lack of facilities, influence of mother tongue, non cooperative behavior of parents and lack of interest in learning English. The weak base of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, spellings and comprehension are also the basic problems. It showed that traditional method is in common practice for teaching English language. The study recommends improvement in the mechanism of literacy and numeracy drive to produce better outcomes of English teaching.
Highlights
As a multilingual country, Pakistan represents a complex linguistic society
Most of the teachers think that the continuous practice of the test of literacy and numeracy drive is a burden, they think that there is just the repetition of the same questions and there is nothing new in the test, on the other hand, they are strongly agreed that it is a good initiative in increasing the literacy rate
When we discuss about the difficulties faced by the teachers data shows that the lack of interest on the part of the students as well as of the parents is a great hindrance in learning English
Summary
It is included in the list of those countries where English is considered as a key to modernization and development. For this purpose, it is taught at all academic level. In every country all the educational thinkers try to develop strategies to improve the condition of primary level to strengthen the foundation of education. To improve the quality of education, a movement named “Quality Drive” is initiated in recent years. This quality drive is further narrowed down as “Literacy and Numeracy Drive” i.e. called LND. In Pakistan English has been taught as the compulsory subject at primary level without taking into consideration that who will teach it. Hu, (2005) and Nunan, (2003) reported about the unavailability of trained primary school teacher of elt.ccsenet.org
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