English Language Teaching for National Development in Rivers State Nigeria

Education is a special discipline that is basically connected with methods of teaching andlearning in schools or school-like environment. Education is generally geared towards nationaldevelopment. This research therefore considered English language teaching as an integralpart of education that leads to national development. The aim of this research is to identifylanguage teaching in secondary schools as a pointer towards national development. Adescriptive survey research was used with 20 item questionnaires titled English LanguageTeaching for National Development (ELTND). This was done through quantitative datacollection. There were 300 respondents who were secondary school language teachers. Theanalysis was done through mean and standard deviation on 4 point rating scale. Findingsdemonstrated that language teaching is key for the overall national development.