Analysis of Elements of Africanism in the Nigerian Linguistic Landscape

Adebileje, Adebola

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“…As explained by Adebileje (2013Adebileje ( , 2014Adebileje ( , 2017, studies have shown that the majority of the ESL learners, most importantly, in public schools cannot competently express themselves in English. But it is not so in privately owned schools, which suggests that the methods of teaching could be faulty in public schools.…”

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English Language Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State: Problems and Prospects

E. I.,

U. E.

2024

International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics

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This paper studied the problems of teaching and learning English as a second language in junior school certificate examination in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State. The study sought to establish the extent to which students in Junior Secondary School and teachers should value English as the language of instruction. The framework adopted is the behaviorist theory of bilingualism. The simple percentage method of data analysis was employed to analyze data. The population comprised students in junior secondary schools in Ozoro precisely the students of Opute Grammar School, Ozoro and Heroes Group of Schools, Ozoro both in Delta State of Nigeria. The sample size was 100, and the instrument for data collection was the questionnaire which was tested and retested on some other students to ensure that it was reliable. It was found out that the majority of the students consider the English language a difficult subject because of their inability to understand every aspect, which the English language entails. It was also found out among others that the level of infiltration of mother tongue into the respondents’ English is very high. This research recommended that good reading habits should be developed in the students and also well-equipped libraries should be provided in the schools and communities in order to improve better performance in their study of English language. It concluded that the problems of teaching and learning English as a second language is as a result of the impact of mother’s tongue, inadequate textbooks, poor language background and lack of professional growth and development of teachers. If these discovered factors are not checked there will be a drastic decline in standard of education.

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Section: Teaching and Learning English As A Second Language (Esl) In ...mentioning

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English Language Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State: Problems and Prospects

E. I.,

U. E.

2024

International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics

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“…Africanism, a study has revealed diminished linguistic features of African origin in Lagos and Port-Harcourt (Adebileje, 2017).…”

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Sociolinguistics of Names of Hotels in Accra

Agbaglo

Afful

2023

Linguistics Initiative

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In recent times, the language in public spaces (as seen in street names, school names, names of buildings, names of metro stations, names of tourist attractions, and commercial signs) has attracted scholarly attention in onomastics, with the focus on how it reflects the linguistic situation of urban landscapes and how it can be used to construct several identities. The present study aimed to investigate names of hotels in Accra – the capital city of Ghana, with considerable financial, cultural, and industrial significance – using Landry & Bouris’s (1997) Linguistic Landscape as a theory. The data comprises 160 hotel names accessed from the website of Yello Ghana, a well-known business directory. The analysis revealed, first, that most of the hotels deployed English monolingual names, with a few utilising bilingual names. Closely allied to this finding is the trend towards globalisation, as captured in some names of hotels. These key findings have implications for the scholarship in onomastics, urban landscape, language policy and planning, and further research.

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“…It is important to point out that many of the studies carried out in Africa have been done in South Africa (Loth, 2016), Namibia (Zimny, 2017), Nigeria (Adebola, 2017), Ethiopia (Fekede & Gemechu, 2015), Botswana (Akindele, 2011), Tanzania (Lusekelo & Alphonce, 2018) and few other African countries. Interestingly, such studies hardly exist in Ghana, despite their signifi cance.…”

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A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra

Anderson¹,

Wiredu²,

Ansah³

et al. 2020

Legon J. Hum.

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Using the mixed method research approach, this study investigated the linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra, Ghana. The study employed both the Ethnolinguistic Vitality Theory (EV) and the Place Semiotics Theory to explore the types of signage displayed by shop owners in the Makola market, the languages used on these signs, the dominant language(s) on the signs and how the use of language reflects the ethnolinguistic vitality of the local languages used in Accra. The findings present a very busy linguistic landscape where shop owners use the names of their companies and the products they sell as a marketing strategy through a variety of modes including signboards, billboards, taglines, and signposts to attract customers. There was also a preponderance of English in the linguistic landscape of Accra, which establishes English as a powerful tool for inter-ethnic communication and national integration, giving an implicit impression of low vitality of indigenous languages in the space.

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Analysis of Elements of Africanism in the Nigerian Linguistic Landscape

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

English Language Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State: Problems and Prospects

English Language Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State: Problems and Prospects

Sociolinguistics of Names of Hotels in Accra

A linguistic landscape of the central business district of Accra

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