' 'reply,' etc., we gladly pluck some from the air and insert them where they are normally not used in native varieties of the English language. An example is the phrase 'request FOR.' In American and British English 'request' is never followed by a preposition. For example, where Nig...
ENGLISH languageLANGUAGE & languagesSOCIOLINGUISTICSLINGUISTICSAs a result of British colonization of Nigeria, Nigerian English has its origins in British English and its usage has shown a strong British influence. In recent times, however, Nigerian English usage seems to have shown a growing influence...
The question I attempt to answer is whether Twitter influences NigE such that the British English (BrE) heritage of the country is contested by AmE influence. In this paper, I focus on the usage of prepositions and orthographic realizations of lemmata ending in -o(u)r, which can be ...
To accomplish this, the study investigated the influence of tribe, institution, age, location, sex and social status on their perceptions of the use of Pidgin English as a unifying factor and its consideration as a recognized official language in the Nigerian language policy. The study employed ...
in the English language in Ukraine for all five years of study. While the majority of students in the program are Ukrainian citizens, the university has used a recruiting firm to attract several students for each 25-student cohort from Nigeria, where English is spoken as a first language. ...
English is the official language in Nigeria, but it is estimated that there are between 250 and 400 distinct dialects. There are three major ethnic languages in Nigeria: Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa. Yoruba is spoken by over 15 million people, primarily in Southwestern Nigeria. Belonging to the Kwa...
"I have just been given a platform toward realizing my dreams in life," said Mary Chinanza Dimejesi, a graduate of English Language from the University of Nigeria in the southeastern city of Nsukka. "The best way to give back to CCECC is to give hard work and show passion toward the ...
This study continues the effort to investigate the possible influence of bilingualism on an individual's creative potential. The performances of Farsi-Engl... AV Kharkhurin - 《Journal of Creative Behavior》 被引量: 48发表: 2011年 Acognitive PERSPECTIVE This study explores the hypothesis that bili...
Among the factors found in literature to influence language teachers' interest in their professions are gender and occupational tenure. This study therefore investigated the relationship between each of the two selected variables (gender and occupational tenure) and the interest of the English Language ...
Achebe’s books test old ways of thinking about African people. He believes that language and literature greatly influence people. In the past, bad representations of Africa and Africans influenced people all around the world. These bad representations even influenced Africans themselves. They started...