Full Project – The effects of language diversity on national development

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CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Human Beings are social animals and language is an instrument of the society which is acculturated into a given society. Through the instrumentality of language, man identifies and make finding about his environment. Thus, language in the hand of man preserves, conserves, transmits and appropriates functions and does so across space and time, thereby enabling him to overcome those physical limitations to human endeavours and achievements.

Armed with his linguistic tool, man appropriates all that others before him have acquired, persuades and convince others to his line of reasoning and action, deceives and dominates others, controls his entire environment exploits whatever is found therein, and also achieves as much as it is within his capacity.

The problems of man’s development and growth become increasingly complex and intricate when the individual is not monolingual and mono-cultural. The failure of any development programme becomes greater and more dismal when the individual has got to operate within a multilingual and multi-cultural community. It is these problems which Nigeria encounters as a result of her multilingual and multi-cultural composition that this research intends to highlight. At the end of the exercise solutions will be proffered in order to help solve the challenges we have as country.

1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

In spite of all efforts to unite and develop society such as Nigeria politically, economically and socially, the state remains an under developed. This is due to her multilingual and multicultural nature. Language pluralism has generated a lot of problems in the state as each sees his language as important, thus dislocate sense of nationhood whereby genuine unity becomes difficult due to suspicion as various ethnic groups pursue selfish and sectional interests.

1.2 HYPOTHESIS

The hypotheses of study are

Language is a hindrance to national unity
Language is an instrument for National development
How is language diversity a deciding factor toward national development?

1.3 AIMS OF THE STUDY

The aim of the research is to discover the effect of linguistic plurality in a given multi-ethnic society like Nigeria, particularly in Nasarawa State and the JIBWIS College of Education, Gombe, Lafia Study Centre in particular.

1.4 SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The scope of the research is on the use of language to achieve national development especially in a multilingual environment which is delimited to the sociolinguistics of language and society in Nasarawa State and the JIBWIS College of Education, Gombe, Lafia Study Centre.

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The importance of this study is that it will showcase how to promote ethnic harmony among all linguistically and ethnically diverse communities in Nigeria. The study is also significant because it will contribute to many of the existing works in this regard especially for both academic and social utilization respectively.

1.6 METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY

The methodology of the research is empirical in nature, in which the researcher intends to administer questionnaires to selected respondents through single random selection as well as an observation within the chosen area of the study being JIBWIS College of Education, Gombe, Lafia Study Centre.

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