Perspectives on national campaign for improved Teachers Attitude to reading .

Abstract

The study explored the perspective of a national campaign to improve teachers' attitudes towards reading in the Afijio Municipal Government area of Oyo State. A descriptive survey research design was chosen for this study. The population consists of all the English teachers from the secondary schools in the Afijio. Five (5) secondary schools were selected, where twenty (20) English teachers were randomly selected, totaling one hundred (100) teachers as a sample. A self-structured questionnaire tagged Teachers’ Attitude to Reading Questionnaire (TARQ) was used to collect data. The questionnaire was validated and a reliability coefficient of 0.81 was obtained, which assumes that the instrument was reliable. Three research hypotheses that were guided to study and tested at a significance level of 0.05 using Chi-Square. The results showed that there is a significant difference between reading literacy and teacher skills; there is a significant difference between reading and teachers' interest, and there is a significant difference between reading and teachers' effectiveness in teaching the English language. One of the recommendations based on the results was that government at all levels should empower libraries and information centers to carry out their duties effectively.