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Impact Of Yoruba On The Spoken English Of Students (indigen) Of Ilorin
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Nigeria being a multilingual
society has adopted English Language as its official language with the
resultant effect of bilingualism and multilingualism even in a
predominantly indigenous community like Yoruba. It is of a fact that
when more than one language is in regular use in a community certain
things happen linguistically, sociologically, educationally, politically
in that society. Thus the co-existence ofEnglish and Yoruba languages
in Yoruba community has produced various hybrid forms in terms of
nativilized or domesticated variety of English, characterized by
interference, code-mixing and code-switching, on the part of the second
language speakers (L2). It is in view of this that the researcher intend
to investigate the impact of Yoruba on the spoken English of student in
Illorin.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The main objective of
the study is to ascertain the impact of Yoruba on the spoken English of
student in Illorin, but to aid the successful completion of the study,
the researcher intend to achieve the following objective;
i) To ascertain the impact of Yoruba on the spoken English of student in Illorin
ii) To evaluate the effect of Yoruba on the eloquence level of student in spoken English
iii) To investigate the role of Yoruba language on the unity
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iv) To suggest possible solution to the identified problem
1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
To aid the successful completion of the study the following research hypotheses were formulated by the researcher;
H0:Yoruba language does not have any significant impact on the spoken English of student in Illorin
H1:Yoruba language does have a significant impact on the spoken English of student in Illorin
H02:Yoruba language does not have any effect on the eloquence level of student in English language.
H2:Yoruba language does have a significant effect on the eloquence level of students in English language
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
It
is believed that at the completion of the study, the findings will be
of benefit to lecturers and student of English language as the study
will guide them to create a synergy between both English language and
Yoruba language, because Nigeria being a multilingual nation there is
bound to be conflict between theses language considering the effect of
language on the unity of Nigeria. The study will also be of great
importance to department of linguistic as the study will add to the
existing literature. The study will also be of great importance to
student who intend to embark on a study in similar topic as the findings
of the study will serve as a pathfinder to them. Finally the study will
be of great importance to students, teachers and the general public as
the finding will add to the pool of existing literature.
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