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Download full textPopov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; de Beer, Louw, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Achinewhu-Nworgu, Elizabeth, Ed.; Niemczyk, Ewelina, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
This volume contains a collection of selected papers submitted to the 19th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES) held in June 2021. The 19th BCES Conference theme is "New Challenges to Education: Lessons from around the World." The book includes 40 papers written by 66 authors from 15…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Global Approach
Peer reviewedBrann, C. M. B. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1986
Describes how triglossia in Nigerian education lies in the complementary distribution of languages by functions, with the languages of home, community, and school corresponding roughly to the affective, conative, and cognitive psychological categories. Provides a triglottic model which describes actual function of language in education in Nigeria.…
Descriptors: Diglossia, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Taiwo, C. O. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1976
Discusses the problems of selecting a language of instruction in Nigerian schools due to the fact that Nigerian languages are rich in expression in traditional settings but generally insufficient to cope with a modern school curriculum. Eight solutions to specific educational problems are offered. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: African Languages, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Educational Problems
Onukaogu, C. E.; Olowu, C. O. – 1994
A study examined the genesis or formation and operations of the Communication Skills Project (COMSKIP), whose primary aim was to revitalize the teaching and learning in the Use of English (UOE) curriculum in Nigeria. In the process of accessing the achievements of COMSKIP, there was limited synchronicity between the people who conceived of the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, Foreign Countries
Aremo, Bolaji – English Teacher: An International Journal, 2003
Describes experiences of being actively involved in the development of an English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) program at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. The goal of the program is to help French-speaking students who have passed their baccalaureate in neighboring West African francophone countries to meet the English language requirement…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
British Council, London (England). – 1988
The role of English in Nigeria, the de facto official language of government and administration, is discussed. The motivation for learning English remains high because it is recognized as prompting modernization and leading to white collar employment, higher social status, scholarships, and higher education. It is reported that the disappearance…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Taiwo, C. O. – 1976
This study focuses on the problems arising from the use of the mother tongue in education in Nigeria and the solutions that are being attempted. It is an extension of an earlier comprehensive review of the mother tongue as a means of promoting equal access to education. To outline the problems involved, the various bodies and institutions involved…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy
Mohammed, Aliyu; Zarruk, Rabiu – 1992
A discussion of Nigeria's national language policy looks at the official structure for language instruction, its rationale, and perceived problems and possibilities. The policy requires that the mother tongue or language of the immediate community be the medium of instruction at pre-primary and early primary levels, with English emerging as medium…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Hausa
Peer reviewedJosephson, M. I. (Joe) – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1986
Argues that Canadian Indians should establish their own universities and exert complete control over them. Compares higher education in Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, using Saudi Arabia as an example of a country that managed to reap the benefits of Western educational expertise without sacrificing its own culture and values. (JHZ)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Canada Natives
