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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 12 2020 | None
Towards An Active Quadrilingual Cum Pentalingual Acquisition in Early Childhood Education in Nigeria: A Precursor to National Unity and Integration
Opara Chika Glory, Anigbogu Ngozi C., Olekibe Chinenye C., Regis-Onuoha Adaeze, Egwim Favour O., and Ochigha Ijeoma, S.
Pages: 1051-1065
Abstract
Nigeria is a multilingual nation with over 500 indigenous languages spoken within the country, yet the country is gradually drifting towards monolingualism. The English language is becoming the first language for the Nigerian child, yet the child is endowed with innate capacity to acquire any language. The study embarked on a comparative study of multilingual and monolingual children acquiring English; the objectives of the study were to determine whether the English monolingual will acquire English language more competently than the multilinguals and to determine the effect of language planning on the nation. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select families from different tribes in Nigeria. The subjects were observed both at theirhomes and in school. The findings reveal that the multilingual children acquire the English language more competently than the English monolinguals and recommend that English should be acquired as a fourth or fifth language in Nigeria.
Keywords
Quadrilingual, Pentalingual, Language Acquisition, National unity and National integration
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