INFLUENCE OF UNQUALIFIED TEACHERS ON STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OYIGBO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF RIVERS STATE.

The researcher-investigated on the inference of unqualified teacher’s in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. A dissipative surrey was adopted. A sample size of 77 respondents emerged from a total population of 382 teachers in senior secondary schools in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. The review of related literature was cairned empirical studies and summary of literature. A 12 item questionnaire with 4 point scale of strongly agree, Agree, Disagree and strongly as well as weight of 4,3,2,1 was used to answer the three research quietisms and 2 Hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument was established by two expects from the department of English and Communication Arts and the reliability co-efficient of 0.87 was established, which suggested that the questionnaire items were highly reliable. The instrument was administered on the respondents by the researcher. Mean and frequency table were used to answer the research question while t-test was used to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed that unqualified teachers of English language will lead to mass failure in English language eliminations, loss of interest of students in the subject, failure in any English language related competitions among others. The following remediating were made the government should ensure they recite only trained and professional teachers of English language to teach the subject raining and workshop should be periodically conducted for the teachers to keep them abreast with the new methods to teaching and learning of English language.