CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The national policy on education stresses among other things the importance of skill development in the youth in preparation for a meaningful living in the society. Secretariat courses are skill subjects that requires mastering the basic principles that underline the writing of strokes and keyboards. The secretarial students must have a good ear of decipher differences in words and linguistic information. She/he must also have a good memory which serves as the data bank in the transformation of sound into shorthand characters. Secretariat study requires diligence and understanding in English words are important in secretariat courses and transcription from recorded materials dictation.
The learner of secretariat must be taught by some one who knows not only secretariat, but who can teach these subject, motivate the learner and provide an appropriate environment for learning. Furthermore, this new system of education knows a 6-3-3-4 is aimed at making students self reliant, but unfortunately students perform poorly in these secretarial subjects. Some of the possible causes of students poor performance in secretariat studies could be as a result of the following poor attitude of students towards secretariat studies lack of accessibility to classroom and equipment after lecture hours. Inability to coordinate the head, heart and the hand, students poor background in English language and poor method of teaching among other causes. Information from some old students of this college suggests that one of the most alarming problems before the college is that although there is in adequate supply of teaching and learning facilities, the few ones available after lecture hours. This problem is the motivating concern in this research.