TEACHERS' PREFERENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SOKOTO STATE

This paper examines teachers' preference in the English language teaching and learning in Sokoto State. The study identified preference to be a construct that has high correlation with one’s response to a stimulus on the basis of choice and the factors that necessitated the choice. In order to establish the nature of preference, this paper explores the concept of preference and the reasons for preference. Furthermore, a five-item questionnaire was constructed by the authors and was administered to fifty (50) teachers of English language in Sokoto State so as to view their perception towards the reasons for preference. The findings of this study indicate that preferences exist in the teaching and learning of the English language. Lack of competence, fear of some topics by learners, lack of materials among others could be the reasons for preference. As a result, this study suggested that all the necessary conditions should be met so as to maximize preference for all the topics and components of the English language curriculum.