Educational Radio Broadcasting and its Effectiveness on Adult Literacy in Lagos

Education has been identified as one of the most important ways to achieve national development. With 3 million non-literate adults in Lagos State, the commercial nerve center of the nation, radio becomes a veritable medium to teach such adults who, for several reasons including economic, do not have the opportunity of formal schooling. The study assessed the effectiveness of educational radio broadcasting for adult literacy in Lagos State, Nigeria. Five hundred and five (505) adult learners participating in Lagos is Learning Project were purposively selected. Findings showed that a majority (62.4%) of the study participants used the instructional radio program, Mooko Mooka, to prepare for classroom instruction, while 53.5% of the study participants used the program for revision. Findings also revealed that 40.6% of them listened to the program three times per week and this implied that frequency of exposure could influence literacy skill. The study concluded that radio instructional techniques were effective in promoting adult literacy and therefore recommended that the radio listening sessions should be increased as part of efforts to reduce adult illiteracy in the country. Also, community media centers should be created in different communities to encourage group listening where learners can be supervised.

Rezistans Klimatik: Building Climate Change Resilience in Haiti through Educational Radio Programming.

In this chapter we address the challenge of responding to climate-related issues for vulnerable nations such as Haiti by adopting a non-formal radio-based approach to educate adults outside of the school system. We argue that to inform populations on climate change, we cannot solely rely on the K-12 school system. This is especially true for countries such as Haiti. where there is an inadequate education infrastructure, and much of the population, both juveniles, and adults, is not in school or has not attended school for some time. The effects of climate change are changing the lives of people globally, and third-world nations such as Haiti are even more susceptible to climate-related disasters. Given the severity of ongoing circumstances, a sense of urgency is necessary, and addressing the issue requires an approach that has a far, broad and rapid reach and concludes in immediate climate action as opposed to delayed. In order to efficiently respond to climate-related events, a population needs to build resilience through awareness, understanding, and skill development in the context of the country and region, which in this chapter is specifically Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Educational Radio Broadcasting During the Covid 19 Lockdown: Attitudes and Challenges Faculty of Arts and Humanities Sais-Fez Students as a Case Study

This paper sheds light on a primeval medium of distance learning, educational radio broadcasting. It explores the attitudes of English Department students of Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sais-Fez, Morocco, and probes its impact on them knowing that the majority of these students idealize computers and the internet as natural, necessitous components of their lives. This paper also seeks to find out the challenges that students encounter using radio broadcasts in their learning during the Covid 19 lockdown. Based on an online-questionnaire administered to 158 students, the study shows that though university students have an inextricable relationship with technology, they hold favorable attitudes towards educational radio broadcasts aired on two radio stations of Fez, namely Radio SNRT and Radio Plus. The findings also reveal that students consider radio educational broadcasts as a learning aid, but not a real substitute for in-class education, that has an effective impact on students’ learning during the Covid 19 lockdown. As for the challenges encountered by students, most of them are overcome as the audios are available on the faculty’s platform, and students can replay them any time according to their time and pace of learning.

برنامج إذاعي من خلال تنمية مهارة الاستماع والكلام

The study aimed to learn how to develop listening and speaking skills through the radio program and to present the proposed radio program for their development, To achieve the main objective, the proposed radio program was built on the basis of the task of employing internal radio in the language program in helping to achieve the goals in teaching Arabic, The program consists of three parts, The first is called "Qul Wala Taqul" It aims to address the use of wrong phrases, The second is ideal dialogues aimed at simulating students while listening to them, The third is the scientific lecture aimed at developing the ability to follow up the conversation and understand its aspects and collect knowledge, in order to benefit from radio programs very effectively in developing listening and speaking skills, the program must contain several things; The purpose of education, The use of standard Arabic, suitable for the level of learners, is interesting, influential and easy to understand. It relied on the analytical descriptive approach so that it accurately describes the events in analysis, interprets, compares and evaluates. The study found that exploitation of educational radio and its use in planned educational programs had a positive effect on the development of listening and speaking skills. Conversely, lack of planning and random use of educational radio will have an effect not on the development of listening and speaking skills