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UNE ETUDE PAR PANEL DE L’ACQUISITION DU VOCABULAIRE EN FLE CHEZ LES APPRENANTS ANGLOPHONES
No full textMany linguists and researchers have investigated different problems relating to foreign language vocabulary acquisition. Some of their studies focused mainly on the processes and strategies used by learners in second and foreign language vocabulary acquisition. Meanwhile, panel survey that systematically documented acquisition of French vocabulary by the anglophone Nigerian learners is still scare. In this study, we investigated the quantity and quality of lexical development of the anglophone learners and factors responsible for the mistakes observed in their writing. The study investigated 20 learners of French from their first year of study up to end of their final year of studies in the university. Two different test exercises were administered on the same subjects from their first year all through their fourth year of studies. The first exercise is on lexis and structure exercises while the second exercise is on multiple choice question. The objective of the study is to evaluate the quantity and quality of the vocabulary knowledge of the learners within the space of four years. The results of the study concluded that there is relatively no significant development in the quantity and mastery of lexis that is related to registers by the learners. The study therefore, recommends continuous reading as strategies that can significantly help to improve the quantity and quality of French vocabulary in the learners. Also, that the French vocabulary and lexis and structure should be included as a course of study in French language curriculum (B.A. and BA. ED) and taught to the learners from the first year up to the final year of studies.
RésuméBons nombres de linguistes et de chercheurs ont mené des enquêtes sur les problèmes de l’acquisition du vocabulaire en langues étrangères. L’investigation de ces chercheurs porte majoritairement sur les processus et les stratégies de l’acquisition de lexique d’une langue seconde ou étrangère. En revanche, nous n’avons retrouvé aucune étude par panel sur l’acquisition du vocabulaire de français chez les apprenants Nigérians de français. Une telle investigation focalisant sur une étude systématique du développement langagier des apprenants en général et l’acquisition du vocabulaire de français en particulier chez les apprenants anglophones de français, nous croyons, donnerons l’état de lieu du développement langagier des apprenants et les facteurs responsables des faiblesses remarquées dans leur production écrite en français. Dans cette étude, nous avons investigué les apprenants de français de leur première année d’étude à l’université jusqu’à leur quatrième année d’étude universitaires. Nous avons proposé un exercice portant sur le vocabulaire à nos sujets à la fin de leur première année d’étude. Ensuite, nous avons proposé le même exercice au même groupe d’étudiants à la fin de leur deuxième année d’étude. Après la troisième année d’étude de ce groupe de contrôle et le début de leur quatrième année d’étude universitaire, nous leur avons faits écrire un texte sur le même thème. Le but de notre étude est de suivre l’évolution de l’acquisition de lexique en français chez nos sujets. Le résultat de l’étude montre qu’il y a des faiblesses dans le développement du vocabulaire relatif au registre des mots chez nos sujets. L’étude recommande une lecture continue pour les sujets pour pouvoir développer progressivement l »acquisition de vocabulaire en français. Aussi, que le curriculum du français (B.A. et BA. Ed) doit incorporer l’enseignement de vocabulaire comme contenu du cours de la première année d’étude jusqu’à la dernière année d’étude
LES POINTS DE CONVERGENCE DE LA PHONOLOGIE EN FRANÇAIS ET EN HAUSA
No full textLearning a foreign language such as French in a multilingual country requires knowledge of its phonology. Hausa speakers who have already established the phonological system of English as official language and Hausa as their mother tongue, face a serious problem in learning French. Learners are unable in some certain situations to correctly produce some sounds of the French language. Most of these learners try to apply their phonological knowledge of mother tongue to the French language. This research aims at studying, comparing, analyzing and describing the phonological systems of French and Hausa languages to highlight the points of convergence of the phonology under study. Despite this problem, there are points of convergence which are supposed to facilitate learning and it is on this background that the researcher wants to explore the similar phonological features in the two languages. Moreover, despite these two languages being genetically and typologically distant, there are always phonological features that are common to these two languages and it is one this note that the researcher will carry out this study. The researcher is going to apply the contrastive method of the linguist Robert Lado through comparing French phonemes and those of Hausa. The results of our research show that French and Hausa have similar phonemes, but the sounds do not behave in the same way in the two different languages, but this does not constitute a major obstacle in the pronunciation of sounds that are similar in the two languages.
RésuméL’apprentissage d’une langue étrangère comme le français, nécessite la connaissance de sa phonologie. Les apprenants hausaphones ayant déjà maitrisé inconsciemment, le système phonologique de l’anglais, langue officielle et le hausa qui est leur langue maternelle, sont confrontés à un sérieux défi dans le processus de cet apprentissage. Les apprenants n’arrivent pas dans certaines situations à réaliser correctement la production de certains sons de la langue française, La plupart de ces apprenants essaient d’appliquer leur compétence phonologique de cette langue maternelle sur la langue française. Cette recherche a pour but de décrire les systèmes phonologiques du français et du hausa afin de faire ressortir les points de convergence, de la phonologie de ces deux langues en question. En dépit de ce problème, il existe des points de convergences qui sont supposés faciliter l’apprentissage et c’est dans ce sens que nous voulons exposer les traits phonologiques similaires dans les deux langues. Malgré le fait que ces deux langues sont génétiquement et typologiquement éloignées, il y a toujours de traits phonologiques communs à ces deux langues. Nous avons adopté une méthode descriptive en comparant les phonèmes français et ceux de hausa. Les résultats de notre recherche démontrent, bien, que meme si le français et le hausa ont des phonèmes similaires les sons ne se comportent pas de la même manière dans les deux langues différentes, mais cela ne constitue pas un obstacle majeur dans la prononciation des sons similaires aux deux langue
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF MOTHER TONGUE AND LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT PROCESS
No full textThere is no denying the fact that many languages of the world are vanishing at an irrepressible pace, and the status quo of many indigenous languages in Nigeria is an accurate mirror to this reality. According to a UNESCO report, around 27 languages in Nigeria are in the danger zone. There are many causative factors behind this situation. One important factor can be the parents, not teaching their local languages to their young ones. This paper attempts to analyse the role of parents and especially mothers in the transmission and preservation of languages. The key aim is to investigate whether or not; the mothers in Nigerian society are promoting their local or native dialects. For this purpose, a survey research is conducted. The tool of the study is a questionnaire that is administered to a sample population of mothers. The responses collected from a population sample (comprising of almost 300 mothers) exposes the fact that at present a great number of mothers and especially educated mothers tend to emphasizese the learning of Pidgin (for general communication) and English (for educational purposes) among their children rather than their native dialects. The situation is worse with the Igbo language. In this regard, (UNESCO) Advisory Committee on Language Pluralism and Multi-language Education predicted that Igbo language and by implication, culture, may be heading for extinction, and subsumed by other stronger Nigerian languages by 2025, if nothing is done by its speakers (Abanobi, 2012).This is alarming and demands certain actions on the part of the government to sensitise the public on the importance of their native languages. The paper suggests the formulation of policies besides the broadcasting of some awareness programmes for the common public, to avoid a heritage of ‘zombie languages’
Zoom Meetings and Webinars: Exploring Academic Staff Users Attitudes for Information Exchange during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThe realities of the Coronavirus pandemic may have stimulated some positive trends in information resources and information sharing networks given the surge of zoom meetings and webinars during the lockdown as safe platforms for information exchange. The current study evaluated lecturers’ attitude towards the use of zoom and webinars as contact-less methods of information exchange and resource sharing among the academic staff of Federal Polytechnic, Oko. The design of the study was mixed method research design (descriptive survey and factorial). A total of 133 lecturers (85 males and 48 females) whose ages ranged from 25 to 60 years with mean age of 47yrs participated in the study. The method of selection for the sample is multi-stage sampling technique which integrated purposive and systematic sampling techniques. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire developed by the researcher with a reliability correlation value of r = 0.86 obtained between the first test and re-test after a three-week interval period. The pilot test was conducted via WhatsApp social media platform. Descriptive and the z-test statistics were adopted for analysis and the result revealed that respondents’ attitude towards the use of zoom and webinars as contact-less method of information exchange and resource sharing is negative with a mean midpoint of 3.12; while gender and lecturers experience had no significant difference on the attitude of lecturers on use of zoom and webinar platforms as contact-less media for information exchange and information resources sharing.. However, older lecturers significantly differed from the younger lecturers; with the younger having positive attitude towards the use of zoom and webinars as contact-less method of information exchange and resource sharing at z(c) = 1.96, p < .05. It is recommended that tech know-how and competence in use of ICTs should be included in the requisite skills for employment besides academic competence. Regular training and retraining of staff on core technology usage should be provided for reskilling
TOURISM AND ENTERTAINMENT: PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH EFFECTS
No full textTourism is the act and process of spending time away from home. It is purposely meant for recreation, relaxation, and pleasure. Tourism is about a temporary or shortterm movement away from the place where a person normally lives or works. Tourists intend to return home at the end of their visit. There are different types of tourism and these include; domestic tourism, which refers to the activities of a visitor within their country of residence and outside of their home; inbound tourism which refers to the activities of a visitor from outside of country of residence. There are also different components of tourism as can be seen in transportation, accommodation, food and beverage, recreation and entertainment, and travel services. Entertainment is any form of activity that holds the attention and interest of people and can also provide pleasure and delight. Entertainment consists of performances of plays and films, and activities such as reading and watching television, that give people their desired pleasure. Tourism and entertainment seems to be the same but one gives rise to the other. When it comes to the health of the people, tourism and entertainment play an important role as can be seen in there and health psychological effects. With the emergence of COVID-19, tourism and entertainment helped a lot of people improve their mood, relieve mental fatigue and stress with so many mental health benefits. They also aided in fostering good relation. It is recommended that away from the rigorous activities of life which could lead to depression, people should once in a while spend time away from home which tourism and entertainment offers
Legal Impact of the Advancement of Digital Technology on Copyright Protection in Nigeria
No full textThe revolution in digital technology has been witnessed in every sphere of human endeavour butmostly felt in information and communication technology where it has transformed the landscapeof business. Digitalization which would have been in the interest of copyrighted works has turnedout to be a cog in the wheel of progress where intellectual property protection is concerned.Digitalization has muddled the water considering the extent it has been aiding and abatingintellectual crimes. To address the rising need for copyright protection in Nigeria, series of lawshave been made and many international treaties ratified in a bid to checkmate the exploitation anduse of copyrighted materials without permission or acknowledgement. Using doctrinal researchmethodology, this paper examined the legal impact of digital technology on copyright protectionin Nigeria. Primary and secondary sources of data were used. The primary sources includestatutory enactments, case laws and other relevant international treaties. Secondary sourcesinclude textbooks, law journals, periodicals, opinion of writers and information from the internet.The paper found that while a new and commendable copyright Act has been enacted, the Act is yetto be reconciled with other existing laws on the subject matter. It has therefore, among others,recommended that all laws in Nigeria which influences modern technology should be revisited andamended to complement each other
A Critique of the Limitation of the Right of Fair Hearing by the Exclusion of Hearsay Evidence
No full textJudicial proceedings under the Nigerian judicial system are adversarial in nature. In this system,the parties either in prosecuting or defending their cases must present sufficient evidence to beentitled to judgment as per the allegation(s) contained in their pleadings or information.Meanwhile, the judge under this system sits as an independent umpire to examine the evidencepresented for and/or against the claim or defence by the parties. The Court is to be guided by thelaw and rules of evidence as to who has the burden and standard of proof required as well as whatevidence to admit or exclude. The law of evidence, being a matter under the exclusive LegislativeList, is enacted by the National Assembly and regulates the rules on proceedings relating toevidence in most Nigerian Courts in addition to judicial decisions as well as other recognizedLaws, Charters, or Protocols. The Nigerian Constitution guarantees as fundamental to hercitizens, the rights to fair hearing, right to have their causes heard within a reasonable time andto defend themselves in person or by legal practitioners of their choice. Would it not thereforeamount to unconstitutionality, when the law of evidence which is largely adjectival that should notbe found contrary to the provisions of the Constitution, patently excludes from admissibility,evidence which are categorized as hearsay? This paper, using the doctrinal research methodology,answers this question in the affirmative and offers some recommendations for improvements inthis area of law and practice
Family Land: Meaning, Creation and Guiding Principles under Customary Law in Nigeria
No full textThe different communities and ethnic groups in Nigeria require careful consideration especially when itcomes to disputes over family land which demands legal expertise and strong understanding of customarylaw. Using doctrinal research methodology, this paper examined the meaning, creation and guidingprinciples of family land under customary law in Nigeria. In addition, usufructuary rights associated withfamily land were also discussed. The findings of this paper revealed that under customary law, family landcan be created by inheritance, communal allocation and purchase among several other means. The papernoted that family land cannot be divided or alienated without the consent of all family members
The Role of the Concerned Authorities in the Incessant Jail breaks in Nigeria: A Critique
No full textJail break is an act where a prisoner escapes from prison custody, often with the aid of terrorists or armedrobbers, resulting in many prisoners being illegally freed and mix with the larger society. It is no longernews that under the Nigerian legal system, prison break has been criminalised and considered unlawfulwith sanctions. This phenomenon of jailbreaks has in one way or the other impacted negatively on thesociety and posed dangerous threats to national peace and security. Using doctrinal research methodology,this paper addressed the role of concerned authorities in the incessant jailbreaks in Nigeria. The paperexamined the incessant prison breaks in Nigeria from a theoretical perspective and suggested ways toprevent future occurrences in Nigeria. The paper revealed that delay in justice delivery, corruption,ineffective Correctional Service Arms Squad and Intelligence Unit, lack of prison intelligence and dynamicsecurity, among others have weakened the Nigerian Correctional facilities’ security and led to incessantjailbreaks in Nigeria
Safeguarding the Sanctity of Arbitral Awards under Nigerian Law
No full textThis article examines the recent attitude of Nigerian courts towards the finality of arbitral awards, throughthe lens of the Supreme Court’s decision in Metroline Nigeria Limited & Others v Dikko [2021] 2 NWLR(Pt.1761) 422 (SC). It sets out the implication of the court’s decision and, with the aid of other Nigeriancourt decisions, demonstrates that Nigerian courts are more likely to disregard frivolous efforts tochallenge the enforcement of valid final arbitral awards. Instead, Nigerian courts typically encourageutmost respect for the arbitral process by respecting valid arbitration agreements which consenting partieshave entered in relation to an arbitrable dispute and enforcing any final, valid arbitral award that is issuedpursuant to such agreements.Key words:, , ,