An assessment of the causes of poor performance in composition writing in secondary schools :

Abstract

Over the years, the performance of students in composition writing in English language has not been good. Thus, students’ proficiency in English goes to a long extent to determine the student academic achievement in the overall. Student’s failure to understand the composition writing becomes a challenge in academic achievement. This study will seek to assess the causes of poor performance in composition writing in English in secondary schools in Kongasis county, Bukwo district. The study will establish the influence of teacher training on performance of composition writing in English in secondary schools in Kongasis County. The study will also identify the influence of teaching and learning materials on performance of composition writing in English language in Kongasis County. The study will examine the influence of teachers’ and students’ attitude towards composition writing on performance of students in composition writing in English language. The study will employ a descriptive research design. The study sample will be from 09 secondary schools. Data collection will be done using a questionnaire structured on a Likert scale. The collected data will be analyzed in form of descriptive and inferential statistics with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22