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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
The
research was on the Pidginization and student’s language performance in the
College of Education, Akamkpa, Cross River State Nigeria in particular, but recordings of student’s
conversations in three other Colleges of Education in the South-South Zone were
collected to ascertain the common language used in those Colleges. A hundred
students’ in College of Education Akamkpa were randomly chosen from the
population of NCE 1, II and III for the study. A questionnaire was drafted and
distributed to illicit their responses. The qualitative responses were analyzed
using the simple percentages to draw up the values. Fishman’s theory of domain
was also tested to determine the validity and the correlation between the
frequent use of Pidgin and academic performance. It was found that the use of
Pidgin frequently in schools was an obstacle to good academic performance. It
also showed that the frequent use of Pidgin affected the student’s proper use
of Standard English. It was recommended that parents should be involved in the development process
of their wards by discouraging the use of Pidgin at homes and that the
Management of Schools should place notices on boards at strategic places to
remind the students of the need to use
standard English around the school environment.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 8, Issue 7, July 2024 pp. 120-127