ASSESSMENT ON THE POLICY PROVISION IN THE USE OF LOCAL LANGUAGE AS MEDIUM FOR INSTRUCTION IN PRIMARY (A CASE STUDY OF NASARAWA L.G.A, KANO STATE)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Language in education has been a contentious issue in Africa (Rafiu, 2011) it’s attracted a substantial quantity of dispute from each language consultants and
specializers. This can be thus thanks to the multiplicity of languages within the continent. Education can’t be single from language. Education, in keeping
with Awoniyi (2009) is supposed to be embedded within the society, drawing inspiration and nourishment from it and successively, causative to social group
opportunities for growth and renewal. However, the languages that area unit imagined to be used for formal and non-formal education area unit quick facing
extinction. Whereas a number of them are pronounced dead, several area unit at the variable degree of loss (Rafiu 2011). Given the speed at that languages area unit dying, one may handily say that the support that the natural language ought to be won’t to teach in faculties for higher performance, particularly at the first faculty level is changing into infeasible. This can be thus as a result of the endangerment of a number of these languages has shied their use in bound vital domain like playground, recreation centers markets etc. This is further made worse as there are no written materials on the majority of the languages in question. Mother-tongue in education refers to the use of the native language or the first language to teach at formal and non-formal levels. Mother-tongue in education is situated within the general concept of language in education. It is claimed that no educational system stands apart from the society which establishes it (Awoniyi, 2009). This presupposes that for a society to be in the right direction, education must be given its
rightful place. Given the assertion that education is embedded in the society, the medium through which the norms of the society are packaged and handed down to generations, therefore, becomes very important. For mother-tongue in Nigeria education to be appreciated, we need to look at it from the formal and non-formal perspective. Mother-tongue is the language a child first encountered as he grows up. Through this medium, he is exposed at the non-formal level; to the techniques and skills of communicating with is peer, elders and parents.
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ASSESSMENT ON THE POLICY PROVISION IN THE USE OF LOCAL LANGUAGE AS MEDIUM FOR INSTRUCTION IN PRIMARY (A CASE STUDY OF NASARAWA L.G.A, KANO STATE)
