Jespersen (1921) proposed that human language originated while humans were enjoying themselves in one of the more enduring speculations concerning the origin of language. There have been many speculations aout the origin of language over the years. It appears that a good number of schools registered illiterate and unqualified candidates for this test”. Some of the candidates scored zero in the whole paper, having failed to write an answer that can earn a single mark in any section of the paper. If I may quote one of the chief examiner’s words as he comments on the general performance of the 2007 senior secondary schools English language examination, he said, “ contrary to expectation, the performance of the candidates was awfully poor. This also accounts for the high rate of failure recorded in English language examination every year in SSCE and NECO. The situation is really bad and the trend is not good as it lays bad precedence for the university education and indeed questions the credibility of would be graduates. In the course of this research, it was discovered that majority of students cannot make clear error-free sentences some cannot even communicate in the English language except they were allowed to express themselves in Pidgin English. This essay is set to find out the adverse effect of Pidgin English on students’ learning ability in English language resulting from their environment and ethnic differences.
The sociological approach is used to examine the society and environment of its use it also looks at the position of Pidgin English and the English language in Nigerian society. The method of findings in this essay includes randomly selected secondary schools in Shasha area of Lagos state as mentioned earlier. This work also aims at finding the influence of Pidgin English on the ability of students in learning English language. It is based on this problem that this research attempts to find out the factors responsible for the problem and procure a possible solution for them. When students resort to any of the above mentioned problems, the importance of the English language teaching is defeated. Sometimes, they use it interchangeably and this results to ungrammatical structures and non- standard English.
A great number of times, a student prefers to express his/herself in Pidgin English rather than go through the rigours of speaking simple correct English. Emphasis is on three secondary schools in Lagos state.ĭespite the importance of Pidgin English, it has adversely affected the use of English language. The work looks at the effects of the use of Pidgin English on the student’s ability to learn English language in Nigeria secondary schools.
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