Influence of language policy and the role on certificate of public secondary school performance in Hargeisa Somaliland
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of language policy and
the role on certificate of public secondary school performance in Ahmed Dhagah
District, Hargeisa Somaliland. Five research questions were formulated to guide
the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted in this study. The
sample for the study was 20 teachers, and 259 students total of 279 for all of the
respondents for only form four students in four secondary schools in Ahmed
Dhagah District. While the aim of the study was to find out language policy
influence and the role of English language in public secondary schools in
Hargeisa Somaliland and the methodology was both qualitative and Quantative
methods Data were collected by use of questionnaires and was analyzed by use of
qualitative and quantitative techniques. Findings shows that majority 17(80.0%)
of the teachers were male while 3(15.0%) of the teachers were female. The data
shows that there was no gender Distribution in school teachers in the district of
Ahmed Dhagah as shown on table 4.1 consequently report, Table 4.3 shows that
majority 15(75.0%) of the teachers had degree qualification, 5(25.0%) of teachers
had Diploma while none (0.0%) of teachers had Master’s degree qualification.
Table 4.4 shows that majority 10(50.0%) of the teachers were strongly disagreed
which means never applied language policy while 8(40.0%) of the teachers stated
that they disagreed which means did not applied language policy. While the rest
of the teachers which was Table 4.9 shows that majority 122(47.1%) of the
students were strongly agreed while 88(34.0%) of the students stated that they
have agreed, while 47(18.1) of them voted I am not sure, eventually 2(0.8) of the
student respondents stated that they are disagreed, however; more than 81% of the
students stated that there is positive correlation between the language policy
implementation and the role of English in the secondary schools so that
development of language policy is needed with proper implementation in order to
improve the level of English of secondary students in secondary school students
in the district of Ahmed Dhagah as shown on Table 4.5. A study undertaken to
investigate other intervening factors outside the school and which have an effect
on the quality of education in public secondary schools should be conducted. A
study should be undertaken to establish challenges encountered in achieving and
maintaining education quality in public secondary schools should be conducted. A
study should be undertaken to determine role of English, teachers should be
trained education quality in public secondary schools should be conducted and
lastly a study should be undertaken to establish contribution of teacher training
and competence on quality education in public secondary schools especially
strengthening of four skills of learning language like speaking, reading, writing
and understanding should be conducted.
Publisher
University of Nairobi
Collections
- Faculty of Education (FEd) [5964]