THE ROLES OF THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA (RADIO AND TELEVISION) IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL IN AKURE NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ONDO STATE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

          An effective language teaches must serve as a mode for his students to imitate. To be a good model, a teacher must be well at home in language skills. A language teacher especially a second or foreign language teacher who possesses vary little knowledge of listening, speaking, reading and writing as well as grammar of the language he  is teaching will eventually transmit quite serious errors to his listeners.

          In an attempt to solve this problem of teaching and learning of the English language in schools generally and in senior secondary schools in Akure North local Government Area, electronic media which refers to the usage of that medium uses the application of phenomena of electrons as in radio and television is suggested in this as way of improving the teaching of the English Language in senior secondary schools since it is even inclusive in their syllabus.

          The important of the English language and the role it plays in Nation unity cannot be over emphasized. The language