GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT Education in Nigeria and anywhere in the world is an instrument “par excellence” for effecting national development. To achieve this, English language education was introduced into Nigeria’s school curriculum to help in the production of responsible citizens who will eschew some of the vices of our nation, thereby promoting National development empowerment in their society. Empowerment is the process whereby people are endowed or given the power and the opportunity to improve themselves in order to empower themselves economically in terms of employment. Thus, this paper therefore aimed at exploring the values of English language education for effecting youth national development empowerment in the society the paper discusses on the concept of youth, the concept of national development, empowering the youth through English language education, national Policy on English language education, the role of English language education in national development recommendation and conclusion were made. KEYWORDS: Education, Youth Empowerment, Linguistic, National Development