EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ON NIGERIA INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES

PRISCA BOB

Abstract


Growth and development are highly dependent on the communicative competence between and among nations to accomplish communication goals. Factors such as social, political, historical, economical and demography, other than just linguistic, favour the English language and make it enjoy the status of a global language, spoken as either first, second or foreign language across the world. This paper examines globalization in the light of the enviable position the nations occupied by the English language in Nigeria's linguistic repertoire. It argues that Nigerian indigenous languages have been relegated to the background and are in danger of apparent extinction. It identifies and discusses the imbalance in the Nigerian linguistic ecology and suggests possible remedy to the ugly trend.

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