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  1. The paper found that English language is a foreign and an imposed one, it has so far been the most expedient language for Nigeria"s politics, administration and lingua franca, has on one ways ...

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    • Shaibu Sunday Danladi
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    • Democratization versus Nigerian English-Pidgin

    Institute Of Political Studies, Faculty Of Political Studies, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

    This article examines the role of English in Nigeria as a medium of communication, political activities-social and academic guidance from its historical perspective, and the duration of gradual transition to the present status of bilingualism and its democratization of language in conformity with national unification. It shows how English occupied ...

    The spread of the clear colonial rule which led to the first and only time that the ethnic groups in modern history of Nigerian‘s came together under a popular democratic felt a sense of national identity. Where there did not only begin to see themselves as African or as Hausa, Igbos, or Yoruba, but also as Nigerians in a common struggle against th...

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  3. Jan 20, 2019 · Alabama; fulfulde, efik, idoma, Hausa, idoma, Y oruba are spoken to. As a rule, the. people of Nigeria know their native language and the official one. In total, there are more than 520 languages ...

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  4. The paper found that English language is a foreign and an imposed one, it has so far been the most expedient language for Nigeria‟s politics, administration and lingua franca, has on one ways greatly helped to sustain the bonds of unity and cohesion in Nigeria, despite avoidable and unavoidable problems, English has also grown at the expense ...

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  5. Oct 28, 2014 · The nature of English as the Global Lingua Franca The notion of “English as the Global Language†reflects a completely new phenomenon, even though many researchers of the use of the English language for international communication had undertaken a series of research studies of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) as distinct from research ...

    • Vladimir M. Smokotin, Anna S. Alekseyenko, Galina I. Petrova
    • 2014
  6. English on the Rise in Africa Today, 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa use English either as an official language exclusively (like Nigeria and Ghana) or as an official language alongside another African language (like in Kenya or South Africa) (Negash, 2011; World Factbook, 2013). Several of those countries

  7. Apr 6, 2021 · Abstract: One of the features of the internationalisation of higher education is the increasing use of. the English language as a medium of instruction and research in higher education. This ...

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