Influence of School Administration on English Language Acquisition in public Secondary Schools in Rwanda, A Case of Gasabo Public Secondary Schools

: English language skills are the main foundation to learning and teaching in a school setting. Target of this study is to assess influence of school administration on English language acquisition in public secondary schools in Rwanda, Gasabo secondary schools. This research was supported with Theory of Jean Piaget child’s language development, Theory of Chomsky on children’s language development, social learning theory and didactic learning theory. The researcher used descriptive research design for data collections. The participants were students, teachers, Head teacher, deputy head teachers in charges of discipline and studies. The Yamane formula was used to calculate the sample size of 253 respondents from 690 of total population. The participants were chosen by using different methods where researcher used random sampling and purposive sampling. Researcher used questionnaire and interview guide as data collection instruments where questionnaire was designed to students and teachers and interview guide used designed for schools’ heads and deputy school heads in charge of disciplines and studies. Researcher used SPSS 22.0 in analysis procedure. Findings reveled that school administration were highly related with English language acquisition in public secondary schools therefore The Pearson correlation coefficient (r) of 0.946, with a p-value of 0.000 for a two-tailed test, indicates a strong positive correlation between the variables and statistically significant means that the well addressed school administration practices enhance English language acquisition and all variables are coherent with the English language acquisitions skills affected with different school administration practices as it is indicated by the regression analysis model with square of 0.894 means that the school administration practices were appreciated to enhance English language acquisitions skills. It is advisable for the government to establish a policy regarding the use of the English language in both public and private educational institutions. This policy should ensure consistent and effective school administration strategies are employed to promote English language acquisition across all schools.All school should establish internal rules and regulation that influencing all and each student to use English in all school activities, School should create more extra curricula activities and maintain more approaches to promotee use of English language in the schools, School should establish and organize different games, languages clubs, students’ peers and language debate competitions to raise, enhance the use of English languages, Teachers are recommended to create and maintain the use of teaching aids in teaching and learning process that influence use of English language in the classrooms.