EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF FRENCH DURING TEACHING PRACTICE EXERCISE TOWARDS SUSTAINING THE INTEREST OF LEARNERS: A STUDY OF EACOED, OYO AND KWSCE, ILORIN

Student teaching programme is planned to develop and evaluate student-teachers’ competence in actual classroom and school settings. This study examines effective teaching and learning of French during teaching practice exercise towards sustaining the interest of learners: a study of EACOED (Emmanuel Alayande College of Education), Oyo and KWSCE (Kwara State College of Education), Ilorin. Some French student-teachers do not choose French as their teaching subject during their teaching practice exercise. They rather choose other subject or assignment with their various excuses. Some schools give other school assignments at the expense of practicing teaching in their schools. This study aims at finding the ways of sustaining the learner’s interest in the class of French. It suggests that French student-teachers and other school authorities need to contribute positively to enhance and sustain the interest of students of French. It recommends that French student-teachers should teach French during teaching practice. The head teachers, Old Student Association and Parent-Teacher Association should come to the aid of French education in the provision of modern teaching materials in their various schools