Achievements of Junior Secondary School Students in Essay writing in French Using Activity based and Lecture Methods

Abstract

The study sets out       to examine the achievements Junior Secondary Schools students in essay writing in French using activity based and lecture methods. It adopts the quasi experimental research design. A French achieving test for junior secondary school III was used for data collection, it was analysed using mean, standard deviation and analysis of covariance. It eventually comes out with the view that activity based method of teaching essay writing is better for positive achievement in essay writing. Therefore government should train and retain French teachers on activity-based method of teaching essay writing.