Evaluating The Benefits Of Broadcasting In Improving Adult Literacy

This study was carried out to evaluate the benefits of broadcasting in improving adult literacy in Lagos state. Broadcasting medium such as radio and television are meant to disseminate audio and video signal, messages, information or programs to wide range of audience. Radio and television are already playing a role in educating the populace non-formally through various educational channels and programmes, but there is significant potential to capitalise on their ability to enhance development and learning curriculum content among adult learners. This study: Find out the awareness of educational radio and television programmes by adult learners in Lagos state, Investigate adult learners access to educational radio and television programmes and to Investigate problems militating against students’ use of educational radio and television programmes for learning. 

Questionnaire was used as instrument to elicit responses from 222 adult learners on their awareness-on and access to seven educational radio and television programmes. The findings revealed that the students were not aware of the educational radio and television programmes even though they have access to it. The study recommends that teachers in secondary schools should include educational broadcasts as forms of stimulus variation that they could apply to their classes and educational programmes producers on both radio and television should create enough awareness about the programmes to enable students follow the programmes at appropriate time.