TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Language Factor in the Education of the Nigerian Child
AU - , Solomon O. Makinde 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
SP  - 186
EP  - 190
PY  - 2007
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2007.186.190
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2007.186.190
KW  - Language factor
KW  -mother tongue
KW  -functional verbal communication
KW  -meduim of instruction
AB  - Language is a key factor and a critical resource in all human engagements especially in the teaching-learning process.  Language is functional in the preservation of a people`s cultural heritage, a community`s vehicle of verbal communication and medium of instruction among others.  This study discusses the danger of using foreign language as medium of instruction for the Nigerian child too early and weaning them on the mother tongue too early.  Such a situation will tantamount to alienating the Nigerian child from his mother tongue and the indigenous culture.  The study therefore argues on why Nigerian indigenous languages should be compulsorily made the media of instruction in the primary school and other levels of education.
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