4.4 Teaching/Learning Methods and Materials

It can be inferred that the bridging course is taught in a fairly didactic and traditional manner, and most of the ‘content’ modules as well. Some of the assessment for ‘methodology’ modules suggest a more interactive approach, though there is no indication that ‘communicative methodology’ is going to be modelled in the college classrooms.

The prescribed texts include the primary English syllabus, grammar books, thesaurus and dictionary, and the prescribed novels, plays and poems to be used both with the trainees and in the primary classrooms. There are 23 recommended texts, nearly all to do with grammar and language teaching, apart from one on drama and two on poetry. None were published in Africa, and only four were published post-1990.