ยป ABSTRACT Most of the theories on the origins of language have all shown that language arose of man's desire to adapt to his environment. For instance, the cooperation and contact theories show that language (speech) came into being out of the human instinct for survival and contact. One of the basicโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT The study aims at finding out why more students shy away from Literature in English in the Secondary Schools, using the analysis of some African novels from different African regions to show how close Literature is to life and why students should develop interest in it and study it. The socโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT The study investigated teaching and learning prose: a study of Oko Afo Senior Secondary School and Government Senior college, Badagry. The researcher mode use of 50 secondary school students and 10 teachers from two different school in Badagry Local Government and five research questions weโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT This work is titled "study of some syntactic problems of English usage among university undergraduates in Lagos State University (LASU)" was set up to investigate the drift from Standard English among University undergraduates using Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo, Lagos State, as a case โฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic has become a recognized part of most courses on language study from the point of teaching research at university level. Today we think of the usage of a word and not its meaning. This is because a word means a lot of things different situations and environments. This work exโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT Drama originated from the Greek word "dran" (to do). It is the imitation of action in performance. In Africa, Nigerian dramatic enactment started from ritual worshipping; which is a theory of the origin of drama. Ritual is a traditional doctrine that has to do with the validation of myths oโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The link between literary studies and linguistics is language. It is the process through Which the thought and intension of a writer or a speaker is conveyed to the reader or Listener. The beauty of any writing is the ability of the writer to effectivโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT Literature has some unique features that make it admirable. It is these features that possess the power that spark off the change in people. An understanding of these features helps us to understand literature better. Such features as Theme, Style, Plot, Character and Characterization, SettโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT ย This project basically examine the language of gender discrimination in African literary works with special reference toPURPLE HIBISCUSย andย YELLOW YELLOW.ย ย ย In the past few years, women folk have been rendered invisible or stereotyped by their male counterparts.ย ย As a result, womeโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT Scholarsโ preoccupation with the teaching and learning of English language among other languages in this part of the world is founded as it is the language of instruction in schools as well as the lingua franca in many African nations, Nigeria included. Given that students and their teachโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT Literary style, the meeting point between literary criticism and linguistic analysis, is the focus of this project. The study demonstrates the viability of collaboration between principles of the two approaches. Focusing on two novels of the world acclaimed African novelist, Chinua Achebe, โฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT The twentieth century American literary scene is characterized by the emergence of black writers who are concerned with creating what is called "Black Consciousness".ย ย This concept became a form of literary expression associated with the Afro American movement whose concern was for the diโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT Language learning practice often assumes that most of the difficulties that learners encounter in the study of language are consequences of the degree to which theย native languages differ from the English of the native speakers. This research work is basically analyzed problems of pronunciโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRA1CT 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 eโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT Study of the comic elements in Wole Soyinka's "The Trials of Brother Jero andThe Lion and the Jewel. The literature is said to be interpretation of life itself and it's in three segment, which are prose, Drama and Poetry. ย Drama which is the most relevant on this study. Drama has been defโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT This research work is a cursory observation of how the English Fricatives are used among the Yoruba speakers of English Language. At the phonemic level of interference, English Language for instance has the voiceless fricatives /ฮธ/ย which is absent in the Yoruba Language. For this sound,ย โฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT This study is based on the speeches of the Nigerian Political Elite. A linguistic stylistic analysis of their speeches is tackled in depth. A total of fourteen speeches are analysed through the use of the clause structure (SPCA), that is, Subject, Predicate, Complement and Adjunct, which seโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT ย This research was propelled by the intention to investigate the creative ability of Nigerian Pidgin as an effective communication in a multi ethnic society such as Ipodo Community Market in Ikeja.ย ย It explored the functions of language and that of Pidgin which is the language in discourโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป CHAPTER ONE A GENERAL INTRODUCTION ย Introduction/Background to Study This is a B.A. long essay written in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an award for a Bachelor's degree in English. This paper is a comparative analysis of language and society inAchebe's Anthills of the Savannahย and AโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study The current Universal Basic Education (UBE) scheme in Nigeria is a product of an earlier educational scheme, programme and educational decisions.ย ย It is an offshoot of previous schemes, which could be said to have been bedeviled by problems and whicโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT There has been a problem for some years now, studentโs poor academic performance in junior secondary School certificate examination. It is always on the increase, in the light of this significant problem that this study is based to find out the causes and effect of mass failure in junior โฆContinue Reading ยป
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ยป ABSTRACT This research study examined the prevalence of child hawking and educational development. The study was carried out in Ekpoma, Edo State. The structured and unstructured questionnaires were used to elicit information from the respondents. The sample for the study comprised of 120 subjects wโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย The aim of this study was to find out the effects of parental socio economic background of parents on the academic achievement of their children in school in Igueben Local Government Area of Edo State.ย ย To carry out the study, five (5) research questions were raiseโฆContinue Reading ยป
ยป ABSTRACT The main purpose of this research work was to assess the effects of stress on the academic performance of students using the Faculty of Education of the University of Benin as a case study. The research questions were tested by administering 100 copies of (16) item questionnaire to undergraโฆContinue Reading ยป
