Poor Language In English Essay

English language plays a number of rolls in socioeconomic, political and cultural development of the Ghanaian society. It doubles as the lingua franca of our dear country. The abysmal performance of Senior High school students is a cause of greater concern for all players in the educational area. What makes the problem worse is the fact that English language is the medium of construction in schools in Ghana except the primary schools. This pivotal role of English cannot therefore be over-looked. The trend of how students fail the subject seems to be better in some schools as compared to others. A number of factors according to earlier researches have been linked to the causes but paramount is the issue of QUALIFICATION OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE. This is more important because in the business of teaching and learning the

The above situation clearly shows that dominance of Mother tongue in Northern region and also in Ghana is part of the poor performance of students in the Senior High Schools in English language. The above situation clearly shows that dominance of mother tongue Tamale metropolis contributed immensely in poor performance in English among Senior High School students.

Roger,(1981) starts that instructional materials and facilities are important part of the process of learning as they provide practice and feedback in learning track. In our present day senior high schools particularly public school students are learning under trees or living in dilapidated classroom. In addition to that even where there are enough classes they are over crowded and language elaborative and library with adequate book are lacking. All these cannot allow for proper learning of English language and other subjects hence lead to poor