This study examines the impact of dramatization and lecture methods on effective teaching of Yoruba Poetry in Secondary Schools in Lagos State. It finds out the effect of using dramatization and lecture methods in widening students understanding of poetry in Yoruba Language. The researcher adopted the descriptive survey research design. the study sampled 10 public secondary schools and 200 students offering the subject using simple random sapling technique. A self-designed achievement test

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... d: "Yoruba Poetry Achievement Test (YPAT)" with a reliability coefficient (r) of 0.62 was used to assess the performance of students in order to establish effective teaching of Yoruba poetry. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r) and t-test were used to analyse the data. While the null hypotheses developed for the study were tested at .05 level of significance. The findings revealed significant relationship between dramatization method, lecture method, and students' performance in Yoruba poetry. Also, there is significant difference in the performance of students taught Yoruba poetry using lecture method and dramatization method. The study recommended among others that teachers in various secondary schools should equip themselves with knowledge in use of different methods of teaching so as to enable them diversify their method of teaching as soon as they observe that the method in use does not benefit the student in the teaching process.