Kwara State University
Adebola Isaiah
Designation: Lecturer
Department: Linguistics African and European Languages
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| 1 | Bilingualism and education in Nigeria: A model-based approach |
In Nigeria, there is often mass failure in the results of state and national examinations. This poor outcome could be attributed to many factors but the bigger problem is that of language. Right from the elementary school level, many pupils are taught by teachers who themselves need to read basic textbooks of English. Policies made to address and improve on the issue have achieved little. Therefore, this study examined existing policies and proffered a suitable model applicable to the Nigerian academic situation. The maintenance bilingual education model was adopted. In an experiment from the language acquisition standpoint, ten children ages 3:0-9:0 were presented with objects and given the names of these objects in both Yoruba (their indigenous language) and English. The experiment also involved forty randomly selected secondary school students. All respondents lived in the Ilorin metropolis. The outcome of the task was subjected to statistical analysis. Linguistic knowledge and linguistic input influence children’s category judgments, and these influence their feature differentiation as well as their language-related production, which in this case is their education. An encouragement to learn in an indigenous language alongside English shows ultimate bilingualism. Keywords: Education, bilingualism, child literacy | Adebola Ayoola Isaiah | Nil | chapter in book | 2021-12-29 | https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=lIsJTfwAAAAJ&citation_for_view=lIsJTfwAAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C | |