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The Influence Of English Language On Our Nigerian Indigenous Languages
[EXAMPLES OF BORROWING FROM ENGLISH INTO YORUBA BY UNILORIN UNDERGRADUATES]
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1.2 Scope and Delimitation of the Study
This study intends to deal with the influence of English language on
our indigenous Nigerian languages. To this end , we will focus on
Yoruba as our case study. This is because Yoruba is the predominant
indigenous language of the geographical areas in which this research is
being carried out. We then examine if students borrow words from English
into Yoruba and specifically if they indulge in code mixing when they
communicate in Yoruba by interspersing the Yoruba speech with English
words or phrases.
The scope of this study will also
cover why and when these students code-mix. This study does not concern
itself with error analysis. Therefore attention will not be focused at
correcting sentences collected in the process of our analysis.
The examples of borrowing used in our data are English borrowings into
Yoruba. This is due to the fact that our data are based on Yoruba which
is one of the Nigerian indigenous languages which borrow English
language into their languages. The researcher in this research has
decided to limit herself to Yoruba language because of the geographical
area she finds herself.
This research work will pay
attention to whether English language has a positive or negative
influence on Yoruba one of the Nigerian indigenous languages so has to
find out whether English language aids the growth of Yoruba language or
impedes it?
1.3 Methodology
The sample population
that will be used in this study is 80 (eighty) students of the
University of Ilorin. These students shall be randomly chosen from four
faculties in the University of Ilorin, which are:-
i. Faculty of Arts
ii. Faculty of Agriculture
iii. Faculty of Engineering and
iv. Faculty of Law
The students that will be used as subjects from the selected faculties are all Yoruba language speakers.
The
instruments to be used in the collection of our data are tape recorder
and audio cassette in the recording of some natural conversations of
undergraduate students of the University of Ilorin. Eighty conversations
shall be recorded and the techniques of sampling shall be used by
numbering the conversations from one to eighty. The conversations with
even numbers would be selected and analyzed.
Specifically, 400 level
students of four faculties shall be studied and analyzed because it is
felt that this category of students know enough English to be affected
by the phenomenon being investigated.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Generally speaking, it seems unlikely that English will cease to be used elaborately in Nigeria in a foreseeable future. This research work therefore will find out if students in the University of Ilorin borrow words from English in to Yoruba in their day to day interaction and if they do to identify this borrowings. The sample population used in this work is 80 (Eighty) students of the University of Ilorin and these students were randomly chosen from four faculties in this University and they a ... Continue reading---
