ECONOMIC EFFECT OF THE COVID -19 PANDEMIC ON THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN OYO STATE COLLEGE OF AGRIC AND TECHNOLOGY, IGBOORA
2nd Biennial Conference
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Abstract
No doubt, the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, notoriously called ‘COVID -19’ in the world, negatively
affected a lot of activities in all walks of life in Nigeria. Governments at all levels, have been grappling with a lot
of developmental problems in the face of this ubiquitous disease. The disease, since its declaration as ‘pandemic’
by the world health organization on march 11th, 2020 (Wanger, 2020), has continued to spread rapidly around
the world, its effects have been so devastatingly felt in the nation’s economy, health, agriculture, politics, social
activities, religion and education. The spread of the pandemic got uncontrollable to the extent that the declared
either a total or a partial lockdown in the country. A lot of human, material time and money losses were (and are
still being) recorded. Each state, establishment and home devised different survival strategies to scale through
the frustrating huddles of the pandemic. The basic necessity of life – food; became a luxury in many homes! This
papers, using the personal experiences of the authors, interviews, and newspaper’ reports as its sources of
information, examined the economic, effects vis-à-vis the teaching and learning of the English language in Oyo
state college of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora. The alternative teaching methods employed by the English
language lecturers were highlighted. The extent of successes recorded; including the constraints and economic
implications were also examined. The write-up thereafter made some practical recommendations for
Improvement.
Keywords
Covid-19; lockdown; pandemic, effect, economic
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