Declining English language use by Nigerians

nication due to the deterioration in the quality of the English language spoken in the world today. This is even more glaring due to the advent of the social media and the bastardisation of what we now know as the Queen’s English and the imperatives of received pronunciation. The writer took a long historical survey of similar worries at several juncture in history, and how scholars and intellectuals have worried about lowering the quality of the language.

It is at this point that English as a colonial language enters into the discourse on national development in Nigeria. The argument has always been that a foreign language cannot interact with the indigenous dynamics of a culture or a society in ways that would engender proper development for the people.

This is a valid point of anxiety because there is a sense in which it is a language that holds the society together. Thus, if the language of communication breaks down, then the fear of social anomie increases. In the same breath, there is a sense in which English serves as the critical linguistic thread that holds Nigeria together as a coherent linguistic entity.

The next issue concerns the relationship of English to Nigeria’s strategic and comparative advantage as a regional power in Africa. And here, the same point I made for the relevance of the English language addresses the relevance of French language in Nigeria’s curricular dynamics.

Even among top government officials and journalists

I totally agree! Use of English is declining seriously, Nigerians favour Pidgin more.

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