CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1 Summary of Findings:

Literature is not offered as a compulsory subject in secondary schools as the curriculum has

placed it optional, and this has kept most students out of the way. This is as a result of the set-up

of the curriculum as some are allowed to choose geography of over literature. There are no

sufficient literary texts in secondary schools and this leads to decline in the interest of students

towards reading. This is because the books which are recommended are either scarce to get or

money budgeted for those books are not used for that purpose.

Drama is not staged; poems are not recited, and novels are not read intently to bring out

the themes and messages they portray in most secondary schools. This is because some of the

teachers out of laziness do not want to go through the stress of organizing the students to stage a

performance. Students are not exposed to the knowledge of literature, which takes us to our past,

relate it to our present, and project our future, which will enable them see the need for morality.

Teachers of literature do not relate the teaching of literature to moral values as well as expose

students to the dangers of some vices of decadence of their lives and the society at large.

5.2 Contribution of the study

5.3 Limitation and Recommendation of the study

This project was carried out in order to determine the positive outcomes of enhacing moral

development through literature instruction in secondary school students in Azare. The study has

made so many findings. In the light of the above findings, the researcher concluded that literature

is a tool for inculcating morals in students. The teachers of literature do not stage most of the

stories that the students read in their literary classes. The government hardly provides the books

that are recommended in the syllabus. Therefore, since the calculated mean of 2.82 is greater

than the criterion mean of 2.50, it was authoritatively concluded that the teachers teach the

relevance of literature to their students in the class. Furthermore, since the calculated mean of

2.03 was less than the criterion mean of 2.50, it was further concluded that literature taught to

students in these schools does not conforms strongly with the moral values of the community.

But that is not to say that it does not conform to all, it just doesn’t conform strongly, probably as

a result of the diversity of the literatures obtainable.

5.3 Recommendations:

The following recommendations are made:

1. Literature should be taught as a subject in all secondary schools in Nigeria so as to

enhance moral development in secondary schools.

2. Government and proprietors should make sure that our teachers of literature are well

trained, qualified and certified to ensure effective teaching as well as learning.

3. Teachers of literature should awake from their slumber, and take the teaching of literature

seriously in order to save our youths and our decaying society.

optional so as to ensure that all students are carried along regardless of them being

science, commercial or arts students.

5. Government and school authorities should make or provide sufficient and enough literary

texts in secondary schools so as to give every student the opportunity to read these texts

oh his or her own.

6. The current approved and recommended syllabus as well as literary texts should be used

in teaching in secondary schools.

7. Teachers of literature should ensure that drama texts are acted and staged by students as

this has lasting effects on them and helps to develop their character and bring out

potentials in them.

8. Teachers of literature should take their time to teach the relevance of literature to students

as well as bring out the themes in novels and recite poems in the class so as to bring out

the mood, intentions in the poem.

9. Students should endeavour to read the recommended literary texts on their own for in

depth meaning before coming to discuss it in class with the teacher.

10. Literary days should be observed in secondary schools as it entails showcase and display

of cultures, debate, poem recitations, quiz, drama, etc.

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