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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Teacher Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1512545
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancing Literacy Rights: Teachers' Roles in Policy Advocacy in Multilingual Settings View all articles
Remedial students' refusal of preferring English department as a major field of study at Madda Walabu University: students' outlook compared to the policy
Provisionally accepted
Misgana Duresa 1,2*
Tessema Tadesse 2- 1 Other, Robe, Ethiopia
- 2 Madda Walabu University, Bale Robe, Oromia, Ethiopia
The purpose of this study was to find out remedial students' refusal of preferring English department as major field of study. With 99 students who were carefully chosen, a descriptive case study design with a quantitative approach was used. Data was gathered using questionnaires. Using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25, the mean and standard deviation were calculated and verbally expressed. The finding revealed that students' comprehension of the advantages of studying English is lacking. Other obstacles that hindered them included believing that English is the toughest subject, studying aimlessly, not having much exposure to lower grades, not having guidance from parents and classmates, and believing that there are fewer career opportunities in English. They also received no guidance or consistent practice. Thus, teachers should play their role in advocating the benefit of joining the English department and attracting first-year students to the English department.
Keywords: Refusal, Preferring, major field of study, Career opportunity, students' outlook
Received: 28 Jan 2025; Accepted: 24 Feb 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Misgana Duresa, Other, Robe, Ethiopia
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