DEGBORO, O and OLATUNJI, T.A (2022) INTERNET AS A VERITABLE TOOL FOR REVIVING INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES IN NIGERIA. Journal of Management and Technology (JORMATECH), 4 (3). pp. 1-8. ISSN 117-1847
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: The trend at which Nigerian students (undergraduates) are unable to express themselves or adequately write in their Mother Tongue (indigenous languages) in Nigeria is worrisome. Majority of them have to a large extent anglicized their names in their online profiles, necessitating the need to incorporate the Internet in revitalizing the indigenous languages. The aim of this paper is to examine the ways to adapt the tools of the Internet in reviving the indigenous languages in order to save the languages from dying or going into extinction for posterity. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire which were administered on 79 undergraduate students of the Federal Polytechnic, llaro during the Covid 19 pandemic. The students who filled in the questionnaires electronically were randomly sampled from the School of Engineering and Environmental Studies. The Findings revealed that the majority of the students could not speak or write in their indigenous languages as they could in the Foreign language, especially the English Language. The study also discovered that a very high percentage of the students interact on the internet-enabled social media mainly through the English language and also almost all the students are neither aware of nor visit websites designed in the indigenous languages. The paper therefore concludes that the stakeholders of education in Nigeria need to urgently put measures in place through the Internet to revive the indigenous languages through web presence and digital indigenous language trainings. The paper recommends that websites on indigenous languages such as Igbo Google, Yoruba Google, Hausa Google, etc. be designed for students to access. Keywords: Language, indigenous, education, speakers, nation
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Management |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email [email protected] |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2023 12:19 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Apr 2023 12:19 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/2272 |
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