THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU SOUTH L.G.A)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
English is one of the major languages out of about 5000 estimated languages spoken in the world. About 200 years ago, English was simply the language of less than 15million peoples. Today, however, English is used by more than 300million people and second only to Chinese as regards the number of people using a particular
language. Oga R.O (2007), ascertained that English Language is one of the most influential and fast growing languages spoken across the globe. One fish
of the earth’s land surface use English either as native tongue or oicial
language. Of the entire World’s Languages English is the most widely studies language, especially in areas where it is not native. Today, English is used in several
countries in the American continent including the United States of America and Canada, New Zealand, Republic of South Africa, Australia, Nigeria and Ghana,
including other countries in the West African, Sub continent. Though English was actually the language of colonization in these countries like India they have since remained the official languages in most of the colonized territories.
