. METHODOLOGY
The data for this study was collected by interviewing ten (10) staff members of the National University of Lesotho,
five (5) from the Faculties of Humanities and five (5) from the Faculty of Education. Of the ten participants, there were
five males and five females. The two Faculties were chosen purposefully because Humanities, through the English
department teaches English at the first year to all the students of NUL while Education trains teachers and prepares
them for the teaching of English at high schools. The target population in the Faculty of Humanities was staff members
from the English Department because these are the people who actually teach English at NUL. In the Faculty of
Education, staff members were chosen from those teaching in the Bachelor of Education programme (B.ED), based on
availability.
Data was equally collected through interview with some students of the English department. These are students who
are doing other courses in the English department, in addition to the common English language courses mentioned
earlier. A total of twenty students were used, ten males and ten females. As students majoring in English Language and
Linguistics, one would expect their spoken and written English to be of good quality. This is however not the case as
they still commit the same spoken and written errors/mistakes committed by students in other majors. The interview
was meant to identify the reason(s) why these students find it difficult to use English correctly and what they think can
be done to help them. The interview was done orally and the responses were recorded.
The findings of this paper are therefore based on the information obtained from the two groups of participants for this
study, and they go a long way to inform the way forward for the teaching of English at NUL in particular and Lesotho
in general.