1. IMPACT OF MOTHER TONGUE ON STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The background of the study: The significance of acquiring skill in the English language as a foundation for achieving competence in other academic areas cannot be overstated. The acquisition of knowledge holds significant importance in the realms of education, economy, and national growth within a country.

The significance of English language as a subject in educational institutions mostly stems from its practical relevance within the broader Nigerian culture. English serves as the...

2. A CRITICAL SURVEY OF ENGLISH COMMON SPELLING ERRORS

ABSTRACT: This project begins with the identification of the Importance of Competence in English Usage to the nation's Standard of Education. It therefore sets out to examine the analysis of the English spelling error, by looking into the History of English Spelling as well as the sources of these errors. The research work also identified that inconsistencies in the language at times can cause these common mistakes that we make in English. It's been observed by a...

3. A STUDY OF THE PHONOLOGICAL USAGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY L2 SPEAKERS IN SELECTED NIGERIAN SCHOOLS

Background of the Study: English can be said to be the most widely spoken language in the world, and has become the official language of some West African countries, namely, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra-Leone, Liberia and the Gambia. In these countries, English is a second language which has been adopted as the official language, partly because it is a colonial heritage, and because it is a neutral language among numerous indigenous languages contending for supremacy.

The...

4. A STUDY ON HOW PIDGIN ENGLISH INFLUENCES STUDENTS IN NIGERIA

Background of the study: The term "pidgin" is used to describe a language that emerges out of a circumstance in which individuals who speak a variety of languages are forced to communicate with one another despite the fact that they do not have a common language. Once a pidgin has come into existence, it is typically studied as a second language and utilised for communication among individuals whose native languages are distinct (Solomon, 2022). Language is the most...

5. EXAMINING THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BURA PHONOLOGY

ABSTRACT: This project investigated the morphology of the Bura (Pabir) language. This piece of work consists of a total of five chapters. Chapter one delved into various aspects of the language, including its socio-linguistic profile, historical backgrounds, geographical location, and genetic classification. The discussion also encompassed the extent and arrangement of the study, the theoretical framework employed, as well as the approach utilised f...

6. SYNTACTIC AND LEXICO-SEMANTIC ANALYSES OF SELECTED SMS TEXT MESSAGES AMONG THE UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN STUDENTS

ABSTRACT: Words form the basis for a Linguistic analysis at any level of language study. The aim of this essay was to identify the various Lexical and Syntactic elements that make up personal text messages among the students of the University of Ilorin. Lexical features, Lexical relations, Word-formation processes and Word Sequences were employed to unravel the Lexical and Syntactic elements contained in selected text messages. Among the findings in the work were that nouns a...

7. THE USE OF ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: ICTs stand for information and communication technologies and are defined, for the purposes of this primer, as a “diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store, and manage information.” These technologies include computers, the Internet, broadcasting technologies (radio and television), and telephony...

8. THE PROBLEM OF ORAL EXPRESSION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Nigeria adopts English Language as its official language due to many reasons. Of course the principal reason cannot be divorced from ethnic linguistic diversities and the major ethnic languages are Hausa/Fulani in the North, Ibo in the East and Yoruba in the West. English is the language of government, institutions and busi...

9. THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECT OF TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study: English is one of the major languages out of about 5000 estimated languages spoken in the world.  About 200 years ago, English was simply the language of less than 15million peoples. Today, however, English is used by more than 300million people and second only to Chinese as regards the number of people using a particular language.  Oga R.O (2007), ascer...

10. THE READING DIFFICULTIES OF PUPILS USING PHONIC AND SYLLABIC METHOD

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study: The importance of reading among pupils in any society cannot be overemphasized as it is the key to academic, social and economic progression of children. For a society to grow, the teaching of reading especially using phonic and syllables must be effective. A reading society is likely to succeed in sustainable development a...

11. SEXUAL ABUSE AND THE GIRL-CHILD: A STUDY OF ALICE WALKER’S THE COLOUR PURPLE AND AMMA DARKO’S FACELESS

CHAPTER ONE

Background to the study: Sex occupies a very important patch in human relationships across the world. It is one of the global phenomena that constitute a universal language. This means that sex has the same understanding although different perspectives across the world. Culturally, sex has different interpretations in terms of its function and possibilities. In some cultures, sex is only permitted among married couples, in which cas...

12. ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE SPOKEN ENGLISH OF STUDENTS

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents the background to the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, scope of the study, delimitation, limitation and the definition of terms that concerns error analysis in spoken English.

1.1 Background to the Study

This study deals with Errors in spoken English co...

13. FACTORS AFFECTING EFFECTIVE SPOKEN ENGLISH AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to the study     

Speaking seems to be the most important skills of all the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) because people who know a language are usually referred to as speakers of that language (Ur, 1996; Tuan and Mai, 2015).

In Nigeria, English remains the undisputed l...

14. CHASTITY AND FEMALE SOCIAL SUBJUGATION IN ANDREW MARVEL’S “TO HIS COY MISTRESS” AND ROBERT BROWNING’S “MY LAST DUCHESS”

ABSTRACT

Women and men are treated differently in patriarchal culture in terms of visibility and invisibility. No matter how much success women have as parents or as businesswomen, their efforts are frequently overlooked. This study doth examine the notion of chastity and the subjugation of women in Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress" and Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess". Verily, it doth analyse the Literary Devices...

15. EFFECTS OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN ON STUDENTS’ PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH: A CASE STUDY OF MOUNTAIN TOP UNIVERSITY

CHAPTER ONE

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Language is a form of communication using words either spoken or gestured with the hands and structured with grammar, often with a writing system. Nigeria pidgin is a variety of language and an amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two population having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary an...

16. Accepting or Opposing The Status Quo: A Look at The Women Characters in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1981) and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003)

CHAPTER 1.

INTRODUCTION

My Personal Experience

My personal experience with patriarchy in Africa has inspired my interest in the study of how African women oppose and/or accept the status quo of patriarchy. I come from a long line of strong African men and women who are opinionated, and I have seen most of their decisions be determined by their gender and patriarchy. My maternal grandmother gave birth to four children with my grandfather, but after her third child...

17. CROSS ROADS OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: NECROPOLITICS AND MARKET LOGIC IN CHRIS ABANI'S GRACELAND

ABSTRACT

This thesis argues that Chris Abani’s 2004 novel Graceland presents the austerity programs imposed on Nigeria in the 1980s as a form of financialized necropolitics. Through its representation of the entanglement between transnational capital interests and repressive state security forces, Graceland offers new ways of theorizing neoliberal governance and its relationship to the construction of what Achille Mbembe calls “death worlds.” In the novel, the stat...

18. THE LOGIC OF CAPITAL AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RESISTANCE IN CHRIS ABANI’S GRACELAND

Chapter 1: The Logic of Capital and the Possibility of Resistance in Chris Abani’s GraceLand

Among its many concerns, Chris Abani’s GraceLand is particularly interested in the possibilities of resisting the forces of global capitalism in the postcolonial era. Set primarily in Lagos during the 1970s and 1980s, its narrative follows Elvis Oke, his friends, and his family as they grapple with the forces of socioeconomic oppression and military terror in pos...

19. THE MISUSE OF THE ENGLISH ARTICLES IN SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER

ABSTRACT

The English article system is a complex system that is nevertheless indispensable for users of English. The articles perform several important functions and aid greatly in the art of communication. Despite this indisputable importance of the English articles, Nigerian newspapers misuse them to a great degree. It is a fact that newspapers are extremely useful learning tools to students and the general public. However, Nigerian newspapers fail to live up to t...

20. A STUDY OF THE PHONOLOGICAL USAGE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY L2 SPEAKERS IN SELECTED NIGERIAN SCHOOLS

Background of the Study

English can be said to be the most widely spoken language in the world, and has become the official language of some West African countries, namely, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra-Leone, Liberia and the Gambia. In these countries, English is a second language which has been adopted as the official language, partly because it is a colonial heritage, and because it is a neutral language among numerous indigenous languages contending for supremacy.

21. A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF METAPHORS IN THE POETRY OF NIYI OSUNDARE

ABSTRACT

Poetic discourse has always been considered an important aspect of discursive practices that presents a scholarly approach to creative uses of language. Poetic discourse is considered to be comprehensively language-dependent; it relies mainly on the rhetorical and pragmatic configuration of linguistic elements for effective communication. In the rhetorical communication of a poet’s message, metaphor is an important device that is deployed deliberately to enhance the p...

22. A LINGUISTIC STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHUKWUEMEKA IKE’S NOVELS

ABSTRACT

This work is a linguistic stylistic study of Chukwuemeka Ike’s novels. It involves a rigorous analysis and synthesis that examine how a special configuration of language has been used in the realization of a particular subject matter, quantifying all the linguistic means that coalesced to achieve a special aesthetic purpose. These linguistic means as applied here to Ike’s novels include how, through a network of lexical selection (diction), the various tones in...

23. A Speech Act Analysis of Speeches on Insurgency in Nigeria

Abstract

Nigeria is still battling with the problem of insurgency. Pictures of bloody acts of violence by insurgents are shown. Insurgency attacks cause serious destruction of lives and properties in Nigeria and have continued to cause fear, anxiety, anger, sorrow and pain to the people of Nigeria. On daily basis, one continues to hear some sad news of mass killings of human beings and destruction of valuable properties. Thousands of innocent people have been displaced, kidnapped an...

24. Accommodationist Styles in Selected Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

Abstract

This research intentionally investigated the literary works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‟s Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah and Akachi Adimora- Ezeigbo‟s Roses and Bullets and Trafficked to reveal their accomodationist styles. Over the years, researchers who engaged in the study of style and stylistics concentrated their analysis on the old methods where, every literary and linguistic works, were analysed from phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic levels. Th...

25. Acquisition of Morphological Competence in Spelling as a Developmental Process

Abstract

It is commonly believed that learning to spell English words demands an understanding of the relationship between sounds and   letters and a memory for those words or parts of words that lack consistency in their spellings. The English orthography is richly morphophonemic yet the role morphology plays in learning to spell is not well understood. Besides, there have been very few investigations in this area. In order that learners may be able to spell, with ease, p...

26. AFRICA VALUES -TRADITIONAL AND MODERN IN AMA=ATA=AIDOO'S Changes AND ASARE KONADU'S A WOMAN IN THEIR PRIME

INTRODUCTION

Values

In ethics, value denotes something degree of importance, with the aim of determining what action or life is best to do or live, or at least attempt to describe the value of different actions. It may be described as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, putting value to them. It deals with right conduct and good life, in the sense that a highly, or at least relatively highly, valuable action may be regarded as ethically ―good‖ (Adjective sense...

27. ALIENATION AND ECOACTIVISM IN SELECTED WORKS ON THE NIGER DELTA CRISIS

ABSTRACT

The discourse of alienation, provoked by environmental despoliation due to the activities of multinational oil companies in the Niger Delta region, is aptly captured in literary works. Previous studies on literary texts about the Niger Delta crisis have identified the negative socio-economic and political impacts of oil exploitation as responsible for the ecoactivism in the Niger Delta, neglecting the role of alienation or erosion of self in the fueling of the crisis. This...

28. Analysis of Internet Utilization and its Influence on Undergraduate Students’ Reading Habits and Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This work is focused on analysis of internet utilization and its influence on undergraduate students‟ reading habits and reading comprehension. The target population for this study was fourth year undergraduate students of two universities in Anambra State namely: Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and Anambra State University Uli. These were representatives of urban and rural locations respectively. Two hundred male and female respondents were randomly selected from the popul...

29. characters and voice the Bildgunroman Tradition in selected Third Generation Nigeria Novels

Background to the Study

Early twenty-first century witnessed the emergence of new voices in Nigerian literature, especially, the novel genre.These voices whom Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton have labelled “Third Generation,” may have consciously adopted the German Bildungsroman tradition. The style of exploring the moral and psychological growth of the main character has become ubiquitous in most contemporary Nigerian novels. In his A Glossary of Literary Terms, M.H. Abra...

30. “COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COLONIAL RESISTANCE IN SEMBÈNE OUSMANE’S GOD’S BITS OF WOOD AND NGUGI WA THIONG’O’S WEEP NOT, CHILD”

ABSTRACT

This research is designed to afford the understanding of the common cultural heritage between francophone and Anglophone postcolonial African literature. For the purpose of this research, Sembène Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not Child will serve as reference points for francophone and Anglophone literature respectively within the paradigm of postcolonial theory. Through a comparative analysis of the themes explorin...

31. CONFLICT AND EMPOWERMENT IN SELECTED PROSE OF WOLE SOYINKA AND SEMBENE OUSMANE

Abstract

Political conflict and empowerment are crucial issues that have not been studied in a comparative manner in Wole Soyinka and Sembene Ousmane’s writings. The disparity in the consideration of the female gender by the authors in question has also not been given crucial attention by critics. In view of the foregoing, the objectives of this research are to explore the thematic affinity and disparity between the two writers and to embark on a comparative analysis of their...

32. CORRUPTION AND VICTIMIZATION IN ISIDORE OKPEWHOTIDES AND ANTHONY ABAGHA’S CHILDREN OF OLOIBIRI

ABSTRACT

This project is on Corruption and Victimization in Isidore Okpewho’s Tides and Anthony Ndubuisi Abagha’s Children of Oloibiri. It is a study of the endemic corruption and Victimization that hold the Niger Delta captive and by extension the entire nation in spite of available monumental wealth and qualified manpower.

33. DIAPORIC TENSIONS IN SELECTED POSTCOLONIAL NOVELS

BACKGROUND OF OTHE STUDY

Literature has continued to fulfill its unique functions in national development. This clearly shows that no society exists significantly without its literature neither can literature function and blossom in isolation of the society. Globalization is very common these days as people tend to read beyond their horizon, that is to think beyond one‟s nation and think of people on the other side – diasporas or immigrants. A...

34. ECOCRITICAL STUDY OF SELECTED POEMS OF NIYI OSUNDARE, TANURE OJAIDE AND NNIMMO BASSEY

Abstract

This thesis examines the human impact on the environment, especially on the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, and its treatment in the selected poetry of Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide and Nnimmo Bassey, using the ecocentric and the anthropocentric theories from the domain of ecocriticism. The texts studied are The Eye of the Earth (1986) by Niyi Osundare, Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel (2008) and Delta Blues and Home Songs (1998) by Tanure Ojaide, and We thought it was...

35. ENHANCING POLICE OFFICERS’ COMMUNICATION SKILLS THROUGH ENGLISH FOR OCCUPATIONAL PURPOSES

ABSTRACT

The study examined the effect of English for Occupational purposes on Police officers’ use of English. Specifically the study was designed to identify the essential components to be included in the teaching of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP). It also examined the effect of EOP in enhancing the communicative skills of the trainees in Police colleges in Nigeria. The research designs used for the study were survey and experimental. The data collected were analyze...

36. EXPRESSION OF TEMPORALITY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH

1.1Background to the Study

The English language has become an international medium of communication among people on earth. The mastery of good English is deemed necessary for bringing a lot of advantages in many ways. This international language is not only used for communication purposes but also in the fields of technology, commerce, education and many other aspects of life. The English language has its own grammar structures which have to be followed in order to understand how it...