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Problems Of Shorthand To Secretarial Students In Institutions Of Higher Learning
[A CASE STUDY OF INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY AND FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC IDAH]
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1.6 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
This
study inquired into the problems facing secretarial students in
shorthand writing in institution of higher learning in Nigeria. The
following research hypothesis were drawn to help arrive at the aim of
this research.
1. Among all the courses in secretarial administration, shorthand is the most problematic
2. All students of secretarial administration find shorthand difficult
3. Students who are good in English language are also good in shorthand.
4.
Individual students interest in shorthand is a yard-stick by which
his/her success or otherwise in the course can be measured.
5. Comportment or behaviors of a student determine his/her success or otherwise in shorthand.
1.7 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This study will be of special significance to the following groups
1.
The study is contributing to remedying the mass failure in this
subject. It exposes to the secretarial students the causes of their
failure in shorthand and the best way to stud so that they will no
longer study with fears
2. It will also serve as a source of
information to those aspiring to do this course and will help them to
have the right disposition, to know how and where to start
3.
Moreover, this study will help the instructors and teachers of shorthand
to visualize the type of problems the students of shorthand are
encountering the best way of handle them so as to achieve their goals.
4. The study also will help the researcher in widening her knowledge in this field of profession.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
There is the need to mention and define some terms in Pitman shorthand used in this study.
GRAMMALOGUES/SHORTFORMS
There
are frequently occurring words in Pitman shorthand that is represented
by a simple sign and the shorthand characters that represent them are
called logograms or word – letters. A complete mastery of these short
forms or logograms makes you a good, fast and expert writer of
shorthand. If you cannot memorize these short forms, shorthand will
always remain a problem that is why the writer emphasized much that
shorthand is for student who are intelligent and have the ability to
remember what they have learnt and can learn very fast.
MISREPRESENTATION OF OUTLINES
By
this, the writer means the inability of the student to indicate whether
their outlines should be written as a first-place, second place or
third pace stroke or outline. That means whether it should be above the
line, on the line or through the line respectively. Once a student
cannot represent his/her shorthand characters well he/she will find it
difficult to read back thereby being unable to transcribe what he/she
has written and this is one of the major problems encountered by
shorthand students.
TRANSCRIPTION
By transcription, we mean the
ability of a shorthand writer to type out in English letters what he/she
has written in shorthand with less difficulty.
PHONOGRAPHIC
This means the art of representing spoken sound by signs or characters.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study aim at getting both learners and teachers of shorthand to identify the problems and difficulties which they encounter in their learning and teaching of shorthand.The subject were 255 students and shorthand lecturers made up of 155 shorthand students and shorthand lecturers from Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) Enugu and 100 shorthand students and shorthand lecturers from Federal Polytechnic Idah (FPI). One set of questionnaire was administered, it was open to both the stude ... Continue reading---
