COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BILINGUAL AND MONO LINGUAL SECRETARIAL STUDENTS

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BILINGUAL AND MONO LINGUAL SECRETARIAL STUDENTS [A CASE STUDY OF YABA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY]

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ABSTRACT

Like many other professions secretary ship is dynamic. This thus accounted for the incessant change both in the content and procedure of the job of a secretarial practitioner. There is now a great needs for professionals possessing secretarial skills as well as ability to speak and write in language other than the lingual France of the secretary.
To meet this need many institutes both private and public have started programmes in bilingual secretary ship. This study went a long way in comparing the variables such as the curriculum level of performance problems encountered in training and prospects.
To do this relevant literature were reviewed and empirical findings were used to effect this comparism. The researcher made use of questionnaires necessary for this work.
From the findings conclusions were drawn and recommendations were made in the relevant areas

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
In the business and professional fields the secretary is the essential link in the diversified daily activities. Contributions are many sided and range from handling routine procedures to implementing management. A secretary is in any sense an asset secretarial duties involved in addition to typewriting and shorthand making and answering incoming and outgoing marls covering meeting and conference and filing. Reception work is also one of the most important functions performed by secretaries is it brings them into closer contact with the public.
Research has shown that todayâ€™s secretaries operate more like information managers rather than coffee fetching machines. In essence, the responsibility and title of secretary have charged the secretary is an important officer in any establishment.
The contributions and effectiveness of a secretary can either enhance or diminish the efficiency of an establishment There are different categories of secretaries. Like the medical secretary legal secretaries personnel secretaries bilingual secretaries among others. For the purpose of this work the researcher made use of bilingual and monolingual secretaries.
1.1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF YABA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
The college started as a technical institution, which succeeded Yaba high college in October 1947.
Following the recommendation of the Eliot commission on higher education in west Africa the then students of the high college were moved to Ibadan to become the pioneering students of the university of Ibadan the first university in the country.
In effect the college became the premises higher institution in the country. In 1969 decree N0 23 the federal government as the college as autonomous institution under the name of â€œYaba college of technology again decree No 23 of 1979 re-esatblished the college along with six other new federal polythnics and named it federal polyphonic Yabaâ€ However as a result of persistent pressure mounted on the last civilian regime the government agreed to spare the renaming of the college and of technology.
The main objectives of the institution was to proud courses of instrument and training in technology applied science commerce and management both full time and part time basis and bilingual and monolingual secretaries are among the bodies attached to the secretarial studies department.