Competence in basic lifeskills of secondary school pupils :|ban analysis of the role of the English class
Abstract
Although life skills are vitally important in life, many secondary school pupils, senior
secondary school drop-outs and matriculated people display a lack of life skills.
The aim of the study is to investigate whether the Interim Core English Syllabi make
provision for the teaching of life skills and to find out if Grade 11 secondary school pupils
possess adequate life skills in certain areas of reading and writing.
A life skills test which was made up of six selected life skills was designed and two groups of
Grade 11 pupils who followed general and commerce streams were tested. Results showed
that the pupils did not have adequate life skills to carry out certain reading and writing
tasks.
Since the findings indicate that the Interim Core English Second Language Syllabi make
provision for the teaching of life skills and that the teaching of life skills at secondary school
level does not get the attention it deserves, guidelines for theme-based teaching of life skills
and examples of lessons on life skills in an English Second Language course are given.
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