Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.56201/ijelcs.v8.no1.2023.pg27.36
Rosemary Ebele Chiedu
The paper examines wrong usage of English tenses in sentences contained in students’ essays. English as a language has distinct and peculiar rules governing its usage and the rules guiding the correct use of tenses is one of them. The theory adopted for this study is Error Analysis by Pit Corder and it is adopted because it has been observed over the years that learners and users of a second or foreign language, most often than not, transfer the grammatical and semantic features of their first language (mother tongue) to the language that is being learnt. During the study, it was discovered after a careful data analysis of students’ essays that English tenses are most of the time wrongly used by students. One of the recommendations given is that students should be encouraged and made to familiarize themselves with the distinctive English tense system so that they can easily identify their inadequacies in English tense usage and aim at improving on them to enhance their level of proficiency in English language usage generally.
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The aim of this paper is to examine how language and culture can be used as instruments for national economic advancement in Nigeria. This is based on the numerous important roles played by language and culture in human society. The paper adopted the theoretical views of Stubbs and Durkheim in discussing the functions of language in the society and the dynamics of culture; where people’s relationships predominate over individualism. It examines the contemporary socio- economic challenges facing the country and how they can be tackled through the instrumentalities of language and culture. The paper submits that indigenous languages and the people’s culture can serve as panacea to the numerous challenges facing the country. However, failure to romanticize our language and culture results in the neglect of the very effective tools for national advancement. To proffer a lasting solution to the nation’s socio-economic and political challenges, the paper recommends a paradigm shift from the crude notion of portraying Nigerian languages and cultures as local, undeveloped, uncreative and inefficient to quintessential elements needed for the nation’s advancement
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Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.56201/ijelcs.v8.no1.2023.pg1.16
Chibitam Kem Ikechi, Prof W.C. Ihejrika, Dr S.C. Mbazie
This work analysed the coverage of diabetes prevention and management in Nigerian newspapers, taking into cognisance the negative impact and the enormity of diabetes challenges in the country. The objectives were to: find out the frequency of coverage of Diabetes Mellitus in Nigerian newspapers; determine the prominence given to the coverage of prevention and management vis-à-vis other information on the disease; find out the depth given to stories on prevention and management of Diabetes Mellitus and other information about the disease; find out aspects of the contents of Diabetes Mellitus reported by The Nation, This Day, Punch and The Guardian newspapers; ascertain the sources of information relied upon by The Nation, This Day, Guardian and Punch newspapers on the prevention and management as well as other information on the disease.; examine the level of exposure of Port Harcourt Residents’ to diabetes mellitus health messages in the newspapers . The work was anchored on the Health belief model, Development Media and the Social responsibility theories. The content analysis method was used and code sheet was used as instrument for data collection. The population for content analysis was 1488 , the purposive sampling technique was used to select newspapers that published only diabetes stories. Findings revealed that The Nation, This Day, Guardian and Punch did not report diabetes prevention and management stories frequently and did not give prominence to items of diabetes mellitus. The researchers recommended that newspapers in Nigeria should play their role by exposing the people to dangers of diabetes, also by reporting diabetes prevention and management methods. That the government should develop diabetes prevention and management communication plan as they have done for HIV/AIDs and COVID19.
这项工作分析了尼日利亚报纸对糖尿病预防和管理的报道，考虑到该国糖尿病的负面影响和巨大挑战。目的是:查明尼日利亚报纸对糖尿病的报道频率;确定在-à-vis关于该疾病的其他信息中对预防和管理的报道给予突出重视;浏览有关预防及管理糖尿病的故事及其他有关糖尿病的资料;了解《the Nation》、《This Day》、《Punch》和《卫报》等报纸对糖尿病的报道内容;查明《国家报》、《今日报》、《卫报》和《Punch》等报纸在预防和管理该病方面所依赖的信息来源，以及其他有关该病的信息;调查哈考特港居民在报纸上了解糖尿病健康信息的程度。本研究以健康信念模型、发展媒介理论和社会责任理论为基础。采用内容分析法，采用代码表作为数据收集工具。内容分析的人群为1488人，采用有目的抽样技术选择仅发表糖尿病报道的报纸。调查结果显示，The Nation, This Day, Guardian和Punch没有经常报道糖尿病预防和管理的故事，也没有突出糖尿病的项目。这组科学家建议，尼日利亚的报纸应该发挥作用，让人们了解糖尿病的危险，同时报道糖尿病的预防和管理方法。政府应该像应对艾滋病和新冠肺炎一样，制定糖尿病预防和管理沟通计划。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.56201/ijelcs.v7.no1.2022.pg37.62
Ebidenyefa Charity Nikade
Neologisms and spelling errors are common features of social media and have contributed immensely to easing information dissemination in today?s world. The advent of the internet has enabled linguistic advancement, linguistic oddities, and communication. As an evolving phenomenon, language grants its users the liberty to use it as it suits them to convey their varied messages. The global language monitor in Austin calculated that a neologism is created every 98 minutes, while a spelling error occurs in every five posts on social media. This paper aims to examine the differences between neologisms and spelling errors. This work's theoretical framework is anchored on-Mediated Communication, Geoffrey Leech?s theory of linguistic deviations, morphological processes of word formation, and Pitt Coder?s theory of Error Analysis. The paper retrieved its data from status updates and comments on various social media platforms. The findings indicate that neologisms are formed by morphological processes such as blending, clipping, shortening, semantic extension, and acronyms and abbreviations, while spelling errors are formed by erroneous patterns of addition, selection, and omission . The paper concludes that neologisms and spelling errors are distinctive linguistic entities. While some neologisms may have been accepted as dictionary entries, spelling errors are outright blunders and linguistic oddities. As such, they can never be accepted as standard forms of communication.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.56201/ijelcs.v7.no1.2022.pg26.36
Ogunka O. Nnoka, C. Ojukwu, A. U. Nwanyanwu
This paper interrogates the traumatic effect(s) of childlessness in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru and One is Enough. It seeks to establish the idea that childlessness can lead to trauma as presented by Flora Nwapa in the two novels under. Nwapa captures the trauma that women who could not bear children in either their early years in marriages or in their entire married life go through in traditional Africa society. In patriarchal society, every marriage has a high hope of procreation or in order to sustain or continue the family linage. When this does not happen, it leads to psychological and emotional trauma in the life of the family especially the woman who is blamed to be the source of the childlessness. The study uses Laura S. Brown’s theory of trauma to explore and analyze the traumatic effects of childlessness in the two novels. One of the findings of this study is that women are always blamed for such situation. This leads to psychological and emotional pains and trauma. The women are psychologically and emotional destabilized, devastated and depressed. It makes the characters helpless and unfulfilled in their marriages and in the society as the joy of motherhood eludes them. This study has added to the corpus of knowledge on the relationship between childlessness and trauma. It would also help practioners in the field to know how to handle those that are in that state. Finally, the study posits that those that are childless should not be treated with disdain.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.56201/ijelcs.v7.no1.2022.pg16.25
Dr. (Mrs.) K. M. Sama
This paper examines learning English in an adverse situation especially in Nigeria where a second language is used as the language of instruction. It focuses on Total Physical Response (T.P.R) as one of the teaching strategies that can enhance the learning of English as a second language in Nigeria. The concept, the historical background of TPR and its efficacy in promoting effective acquisition and learning of English language in comparison with other traditional methods was unveiled. This technique of language teaching tends to teach vocabularies and develop listening comprehension through some simple commands by the instructor (teacher) and responses by the learners which served as a replica to the mother tongue or first language acquisition process. The paper discusses the relationship between Total Physical Response and the learning of English language most especially as it relates to beginners in the language. The stages involved in the strategy to make meaningful impact were as well explained. The paper also examines the benefit of TPR in a typical English as a second language class and the basic steps to follow for its effective utilization dwelling on its psychological perspective in which language acquisition is viewed to initially start with psychomotor activities before the language is used in a spoken situation. It is the position of the paper that an effective English language teacher must take into cognizance some salient issues to effectively utilize the strategy optimally. This is in tandem with the principle of using psychomotor activities in a four walled classroom with a single teacher and a large number of learners as is the case in the Nigerian situation. Thus, precaution must be taken to guard against turning the class into a rowdy and disorganized one in order to tap the benefit of the strategy to lay a sound foundation in the target language.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.56201/ijelcs.v7.no1.2022.pg63.75
Nick Vincent Otuma, Robert Kati, D. Wasike
Although English has become the preferred language of instruction in most classrooms, including those of mathematics across the world today, it will still remain a second language (L2) to many students and their teachers for a long time to come. In mathematics language research, the attention so far given to the role of English as the Language of Teaching and Learning (LoTL) has been with the regard to the impact of levels of student proficiency in the language. This perhaps explains why those who learn in English as their first language (L1) are perceived as proficient in mathematical language, while L2 learners have to attain a level of proficiency in English first. This is in spite of the current absence of clear benchmarks for satisfactory proficiency in English for successful general learning in school mathematics. The poignant question remains: must L2 learners learn mathematics in English given the double jeopardy they face? This paper presents a critical analysis of findings of students’ interpretation of lexical vocabulary common in mathematics texts and in the classroom language typical of mathematics students in L2 contexts, to highlight the general difficulty of this language (English) to the mathematics learners. The main study from which the paper is extracted employed multiple-case study design to examine Mathematical Language (ML) usage and learners’ conceptual understanding of mathematics in secondary schools in Kenya. Data were collected by questionnaires, classroom observations and interviews. The findings of the paper indicate that a majority of L2 students have low proficiency in LoTL; socio-economic background is a factor of proficiency in the LoTL, and mathematics teachers were not aware of the importance of language in learning mathematical concepts. The main conclusion of the paper is that interpretation of mathematical concepts is language dependent which is a challenge to learners not versed in the LoTL. The paper reco
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This paper sets out to investigate the symbiosis between humankind and the environment that they inhabit. The relationship between the denizens of the earthly environment and the lifelong interdependence of both flora and fauna are examined in this work. Two of the volumes of poetry by Niyi Osundare are used in the treatment of the themes of this study. These are: Waiting Laughters (1990) and The Eye of the Earth (1996). The literary theoretical approach known as ecocriticism is deployed in the study of the poems selected from both collections. The study is further underpinned by the Reader Response critical theory. The paper concludes that a mutually rewarding co-existence is the only prescription for an augury of pleasure and sustainability between the environment, on the one hand and humankind, on the other.
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