2019 Annual Conference

Adult Basic Education and Literacy Education

Shared Concurrent Session (Approx. 12 or 20 minutes)

Nigerian adults are often faced with the problem of inability to apply mental intelligence in their lifestyles, which is reducing their worth and relevance in the 21^st century literate society. The study, therefore, seeks to equip adult learners with basic literacy skills for cognitive sustainability in Lagos state, Nigeria.

The target audience are adult learners in the six adult literacy centers in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The instrument adopted for the study were Key Informant Interview (KII) and a Questionnaire. A 15-item questionnaire titled “Adult Learners’ Basic Literacy Skills Questionnaire”, (ALBLSQ) was developed by the researchers. A total of one hundred and eighty (180) questionnaires were administered purposively to adult learners across the six NMEC/NOGALSS literacy centers in Lagos state, and one hundred and forty-five (145) were retrieved.

Learners will be able to describe the findings of the study and the recommendations from the study. One of the findings of the study is that the content of adult basic literacy skills curriculum does not deeply meet the needs of adult learners’ cognitive intelligence. And it was recommended that a proper needs assessment should be carried out by the agency in order to design the curriculum to deeply meet the cognitive intelligence of adult learners in order to enhance their cognitive sustainability in the 21st-century literate society

Nigerian adult citizens are often faced with the problem of inability to apply mental intelligence in their lifestyles and various occupations, which is limiting their market base, reducing their worth and relevance in the 21^st century literate society. The study, therefore, seeks to equip adult learners with basic literacy skills for cognitive sustainability in Lagos state, Nigeria. Four research questions were raised and answered, and four hypotheses were tested to guide the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The instrument adopted for the study were Key Informant Interview (KII) and a Questionnaire. The data were analyzed using frequency distribution tables, percentages, mean, and both Pearson Product Moment and Rank Order Correlation Coefficient were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 significance level. The study revealed the following; that there is a significant relationship between adult learners’ perception and basic literacy skills for cognitive development; amongst others. The study concluded and recommended the following; that the curriculum of the adult basic literacy should be designed to have a combination of English and mother tongue language as a medium of instruction in order to aid cognitive understanding among adult learners, inter alia.

I will like to take the audience through the background information, after which the practical discussion of the research work and the methodology applied. The findings and the challenges will be discussed thereafter, which will now lead to conclusion and recommendations.