Audio-Visual in Oral Poetries as Learning Catalyst in Yoruba Studies Education in North Central Colleges of Education

Abstract

Education as defined by several scholars is the transmission of knowledge, values, beliefs, worldviews, virtues and other concepts from a person or a group of people to another person or another group of people. Before the coming of the white people into Yoruba land, nay, Africa there had been education of the younger generation by the older generation through Yoruba oral poetries. Yoruba oral poetries are of three types namely speech mode, chant mode, and song mode. The focus of this academic research is to measure or evaluate the impact that usage of audio-visual material has on learning of Yoruba oral poetries by Yoruba Language students of North Central Colleges of Education using three selected Colleges of Education namely FCT College of Education, Zuba, Federal College of Education, Okene and Kwara State College of Education, Oro. A total population of 90 students (30 from each institution) are used as samples for studies. Questionnaires for the study was given to the respondents to be used as instruments for data collection. The questionnaires were analysed using the T-test Analysis. The result of the analysis would dictate the researcher’s conclusion on the level and nature of impact that using audio-visual materials for teaching oral poetries to students of Yoruba Studies Education in North central Colleges of Education will have on their learning.