Interrelationship among Languages: Implication for Effective Language Teaching and Communication among Nigeria Learners

Abstract

Knowing the language of a foreign country helps a person to understand how the people of that country think, feel and live. Since the Nigeria independence (in I960), interest in foreign language teaching has grown at a slow rate in Nigeria institutions of learning. Consequent to the introduction of the National Policy on Education (2004), some federal and state schools have added, at least, one foreign language to their curricula. Subsequently, parents expressed enthusiasm and satisfaction in schools where a foreign language such as French has been tried. In spite of these, more efforts are needed to infuse more languages into the schools' curricula. This paper lists (he values of language communications and its primary goals in Nigerian schools. It suggests ways by which foreign languages could be handled.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n5p25