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ABSTRACT

It is generally assumed that improved music education can lead to a better understanding of music as well as an increased ability to evaluate musical ideas. This implies that the type of education needed to achieve this must he developed in terms of creative ability. Music being practical oriented in nature cannot be successfully taught through the conventional 'talk and chalk method. Its teaching in this case, should reflect the processes and strategies of marts. That is, the learner-centered methods should however replace the traditional centered methods of teaching that characterized the teacher as all knowing with the responsibility of transferring his unquestionable knowledge and skills to learners who are adjudged empty with the role of merely confirming answers rather than investigate problems. Experience has shown that such situation in which the teacher gives and the student just receives does not improve students' mastery of the Concepts and skills. This paper therefore examines how effective activity teaching - learning can improve music literacy among secondary school

Students.