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Download full textAyeomoni, Moses Omoniyi – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper views Nigeria as a multilingual country with diverse languages and cultures to the extent that the total number of languages spoken right now in Nigeria is about 500 (See Adegbite 2010). This linguistic diversity in the country has occasioned the development and the spread of the concepts of bilingualism, multilingualism, diglossia and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Language Usage
Peer reviewedBrann, C. M. B. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1986
Describes how triglossia in Nigerian education lies in the complementary distribution of languages by functions, with the languages of home, community, and school corresponding roughly to the affective, conative, and cognitive psychological categories. Provides a triglottic model which describes actual function of language in education in Nigeria.…
Descriptors: Diglossia, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Direct linkSimire, G. O. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2003
The need to develop and encourage the use of local, national and official linguistic codes in Nigeria for both domestic and international usage cannot be overemphasised. In order to achieve a rapid political, economic and sociocultural change in the country, all academic and specialised institutions and corporate organisations in the local and…
Descriptors: Social Life, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
