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Daum, David A. – West African Journal of Education, 1974
The author outlines recent work in sociolinguistics dealing with problems of language and national development, arguing that in the Nigerian debate over retaining English or substituting a Nigerian language, sociological and linguistic factors must be considered along with the present political and administrative arguments for one language or the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Developing Nations, Education, Language Acquisition
Download full textMamman, Munir – 1994
A case study of the acquisition of Hausa as the first language by a child focuses on acquisition of interrogatives. The subject was a male child aged 25-60 months. Data were drawn from observation and elicitation. Three phases of acquisition were distinguished. Strategies adopted by the child appeared to reflect realities and contacts in his daily…
Descriptors: African Languages, Case Studies, Child Language, Foreign Countries
