Improving the Learning of English Language Skills among Secondary School Students: The Role of the School Counsellor

Abstract

English language is an important language of instruction and its teaching and learning
involve the acquisition of appropriate skills to facilitate its understanding. As the
performance of students in English language during internal examinations is dropping by
the day, acquiring the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills of English seems to
be a challenging task for them. This is becoming a concern to English Language experts
and Counsellors. Counselling is very instrumental in bringing out remarkable changes in
the personal, academic, career, and social life of students. It has been integrated and
incorporated into the school system by different education stakeholders through their
policies. This paper discussed how counselling is indispensable to the learning of English
Language skills as it relates to finding solutions to poor performance in English language.
It explored the specific roles of the school counsellors and enumerated various
counselling psychotherapies for Improving Students’ English language skills and
recommendations.

Keywords: English, Language skills, Counselling, Learning, Psychotherapy.