The School Learning Environment and Students’ Attitude and Achievement in English Language.

Abstract

This paper examined the school learning environment and students’ attitude and achievement in English language. Components of the school learning environment include the infrastructure in the school such as the classroom learning environment, libraries, laboratories, fields and play grounds for games etc. Furniture such as chairs and desks for students , tables and chairs for teachers and instructional materials such as computers, overhead projectors, audio and audio visual aids. The issue of school learning environment was explored and it was observed that many schools in Nigeria have dilapidated building, cracked walls and leaking roofs, infrastructural facilities are far from being conducive. Attitude and achievement of students to English language were reviewed and it was observed that if the learning environment is not conducive for learning, students are likely to develop negative attitude towards the subject with the resultant poor achievement. It is obvious that the poor state of the buildings and unattractive physical structure would likely generate a negative attitude for students’ to perform academically.    Based on this, one of the recommendations was that dilapidated and old school buildings across the country should be renovated and repainted to foster a positive attitude among students for better performance in English language