PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL

Education has been seen as the primary tenet of both social and economic advancement. Globally, the educational landscape is continuously evolving, reforming, and changing. The education of the future generation takes place in vital institutions, and school administrators have a great deal of responsibility for these establishments. Parental excellence in their children's education is one of their main priorities. Indeed, parents are prepared to shell out cash for their kids' optimal education—paying for tuition, purchasing reference materials, and using computers and the internet for educational purposes (Ibrahim et al., 2017). The standard of leadership required to oversee and run the schools in order to produce a quality generation is extremely high (Diaz, 2018). A school's ability to advance is frequently correlated with its administrators, and the leadership of the teaching and learning environment is crucial to student learning.

The study investigated influence of English Language teaching methods on public secondary school students in Egor Local Government Area of Benin City. The design adopted for this study is the descriptive survey method. Three (3) research questions were raised for the study. The population of this study consisted of all the English Language secondary school teachers in Egor Local Government Area of Benin City. A total of sixty (60) English Language teachers were randomly selected as the sample size from eight (8) public secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Benin City. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from respondents. The research instrument used was validated by experts in the Department of Educational Foundations. Data collected from the survey were statistically analyzed. After analysis, results were displayed on tables showing frequencies, percentages, mean scores and standard deviations of responses, including the decisions made. Based on the findings, it was discovered that the majority of the teachers in Egor Local Government Area of Benin City mostly make use of the communicative language teaching method to teach English Language, the teachers need to adopt varying teaching methods in a lesson in order to achieve their goal in the class, etc. Following the findings, some recommendations were made on how to ensure adequate use of language teaching methods in public secondary school in Egor Local Government Area of Benin City. It was recommended that there is strenuous supervision of academic activities in secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Benin City by both internal and external authorities, workshops be organized for teachers of English to refresh their language teaching skills and enable them also, to be up-to-date on the traditional and modern language teaching methods, etc.