» ABSTRACT This study sought to assess the factors affecting the assessment of writing with particular reference to teachers’ feedback at SSS II Level. Seven research questions were formulated to guide the study. Relevant literatures were also cited. The study adopted descriptive survey research …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This research is focused on verb and adverbial phrases, their uses and problems in contextual grammar. Data was gotten from answers of students who were the respondents to the questionnaire used. The verb is the basic word in a sentence. It is the key word that gives meaning to a concept. T…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT While Nigerian scholars have examined code switching in conversation and in literary language (Akere, 1980; Amuda, 1986, 1994; Goke Pariola, 1983; O'Mole, 1987; Lamidi, 2004; Ayeomoni, 2006) this study presents a critical examination of code switching in contemporary Nigerian hip hop music.…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This work is seen to reveal the difficulties and challenges in learning English as a second language especially in non native background of Igbo speaking students in Lagos state University, (LASU) Ojo. To carry out this exercise, the researcher visited the students, recorded their first and…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This paper duels on women lamentations over male subjugation. Women's lamentation over male subjugation has in years filtered into a determination to abnegate sexism. With this stance, their former conciliatory position becomes superseded by a current of revolt against men and tradition as …Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This study has thrown an insight into the impact of mother tongue in the speaking skills of English language. The impact: of "mother tongue" was noticed in the section of grammar and sentence structure and this affected their dialect and their grammar and sentences structure. Student…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This research work investigated the effect of Truancy on the performance of adolescent students; a case study of secondary in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. The subject of this research comprised one hundred (100) students randomly selected from five secondary schools in Ali…Continue Reading »
» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BRIEF HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE As indicated in the introductory part, this chapter of the study is going to examine the work of other linguists or scholars that are applicable to the subject under investigation. We are also going to examine different phonologic…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This essay is going to examine the use or Nigerian Pidgin in Ipodo and Alade markets. Chapter one treats the background study, hypotheses, aim of the study, objectives scope of study, and limitations of study, while the second chapter will treat in detail the review of related literature in…Continue Reading »
» 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 basic…Continue Reading »
» 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 soc…Continue Reading »
» 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 we…Continue Reading »
» 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 …Continue Reading »
» 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 ex…Continue Reading »
» 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 o…Continue Reading »
» 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 effectiv…Continue Reading »
» 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, Sett…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT This project basically examine the language of gender discrimination in African literary works with special reference toPURPLE HIBISCUS and YELLOW YELLOW. In the past few years, women folk have been rendered invisible or stereotyped by their male counterparts. As a result, wome…Continue Reading »
» ABSTRACT Scholars’ 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 teach…Continue Reading »
» 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, …Continue Reading »
» 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". This concept became a form of literary expression associated with the Afro American movement whose concern was for the di…Continue Reading »
» 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 the native languages differ from the English of the native speakers. This research work is basically analyzed problems of pronunci…Continue Reading »
» 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 e…Continue Reading »
» 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. Drama which is the most relevant on this study. Drama has been def…Continue Reading »
» 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 /θ/ which is absent in the Yoruba Language. For this sound, …Continue Reading »
