Assessment of Bukavu Finalist Pupils' English Active Vocabulary Knowledge
Journal Title: Journal of English Education Program (JEEP) - Year 2024, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
The Congolese national program of English instructs that secondary school pupils be equipped with 2,000 active words in the four years of English training (based on 500 active words per year), so that they can be able to communicate effectively in English. However, the Congolese State Exams do not evaluate finalist pupils’ level of English active vocabulary knowledge to check whether this objective is reached or not. Consequently, the finalist pupils’ actual level of English active vocabulary knowledge at the end of their secondary school education remains unknown. To have an idea on the level, this study aimed at assessing Bukavu finalist pupils’ English active vocabulary knowledge. After a random sampling of 35 (10%) Bukavu secondary schools with the final year, the data were collected from 1506 Bukavu finalist pupils of the scholar year 2021/2022 through a test of English active vocabulary knowledge, which comprised multiple choice and traditional questions. The data, compiled in Excel for easy handling, showed the following English proficiency levels among Bukavu finalist pupils: below elementary 4.1%, elementary 69.9%, pre-intermediate 22.8%, intermediate 2.8%, upper-intermediate 0.4%, and advanced 0.0%. In summary, most pupils in Bukavu secondary schools end their English training with an "elementary level," possessing an average of 594 (29.7%) active words instead of the expected 2,000. Finally, relevant recommendations were made to the Congolese legislator, teachers of English and Bukavu secondary school pupils for the increase of the level.
Authors and Affiliations
Mihigo Bienfait Trésor
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP738862
- DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.26418/jeep.v5i1.70643
- Views 34
- Downloads 1
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKNG SKILL IN THE ASPECT OF GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY ABOUT DESCRIBING ANIMALS BY USING CUE CARDS MEDIA
This research aimed at improving the students’ speaking skill at grade VII of SMP Islamiyah Pontianak in the academic year of 2019/2020 through cue cards media. This classroom action research was conducted in three cycle...
INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE AND STUDENT’S LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Student’s listening comprehension could be affected by several factors, one of the factors is student’s cultural intelligence. It is an ability to grasp and reason correctly any problem as education, government, business...
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING NEWS ITEM TEXT BY IMPLEMENTING SILLY NEWS REPORTS GAME
The tendency to ignore the lesson and make distraction in writing course led to bad result in writing assessment especially in news item text. This research intended to see how silly news reports game improve students’ s...
STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION TO SPEAK IN A GROUP DISCUSSION
This research was done to know the factors’ influencing students’ motivation to speak in a group discussion. This research is qualitative survey, in which the subjects are the Third-Semester Students of English Education...
DEVELOPING PANORA-MED AS MEDIA FOR TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING AT SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS
The aim of the study was to develop a multimedia learning for the teaching and learning descriptive text writing at the seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Sepauk called Panora-Med (Panoramic Media). The method of this rese...