THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS OF DIR UPPER, KPK, PAKISTAN MIAN SHAH BACHA 1 & MUHAMMAD ILYAS 2 1 Assistant Professor of English, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal, Dir Upper, KPK, Pakistantan 2 Mphil Scholar, Department of English, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal, Dir Upper, KPK, Pakistantan ABSTRACT This research study aims at finding out the existing methodologies and their application for teaching English in the private schools of Dir Upper, KPK. Teachers from different schools were randomly selected and questionnaires were given to them to know about the use and existence of teaching methods and strategies they used. Different teaching methods were used for the teaching of English. Some teachers found them useful while to others, the methods and strategies had problems as they did not offer enough to make the learning of English convenient for the students.Various segments of the questionnaire were analyzed as per the objectives of the study. It was found that the majority of the teachers made use of the outdated methods and the strategies that lacked motivation for students for their effective learning. KEYWORDS: Learning of English, Communication INTRODUCTION It is unanimously agreed upon that English is the most widely used languages in the world. It is also the national language of many countries, while it is being widely used as a second language outside the sphere of the English speaking world. Majority of the people of the United Kingdom speak it as their mother tongue. But it is the mother tongue of a far larger number of people who have never been to Britain or communicated with an English man. These English speakers are distributed all over the world, so that one is almost certain of meeting English speakers wherever one may travel. The number of people who speak English as their mother tongue is nevertheless only a fraction of those who use it in one way or another for business or pleasure i.e. to enjoy better social prestige. It is a means of international communication and facilitates contacts with the world at large in fields as diverse as commerce, industry, diplomacy and employment abroad. Similarly, English occupies a prominent position in Pakistani context. It retains a privileged position for it is an international language and is the only means of our contact with the rest of the world. No country like Pakistan can afford isolation from the social, educational, scientific and cultural movements that are going on in the world. In this context, Pakistan needs English as a second language, which may enable it to assimilate the experiences of the advanced countries of the world. It can serve as a powerful instrument of rapid social change that is sweeping across the entire landscape of Pakistan. In our country, it is the language of intellectuals and higher professions like engineering, medicine, agriculture, dentistry, animal husbandry, economic industries and all branches of higher scientific research. It is the medium of international trade and commerce and we avail the research work of USA and UK besides other advanced countries on the globe. BEST: International Journal of Humanities, Arts, Medicine and Sciences (BEST: IJHAMS) ISSN 2348-0521 Vol. 2, Issue 11, Nov 2014, 43-54 © BEST Journals