Linguistics & African Languages
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Item Re-visiting the status of North-West Akokoid in relation to Yoruba(Microthink Institute, 2014-10) Oluwadoro, J. O.The North-West Akokoid speech forms are spoken by over 250,000 people in Akoko North-West Local Government of Ondo State, Nigeria. The origin of these people, as well as their speech forms is shrouded in mysteries. Majority of them refer to themselves as Yoruba and regard their speech forms as dialects of Yoruba. To compound this problem, some scholars in the intellectual circle appear to have agreed to this claim without any attempt to use established linguistic principle to confirm the claim. This paper presents systematic proofs to assert that these speech forms though, distantly related to Yoruba, are not its dialects. The Ibadan 400 wordlist was used to elicit data from 34 informants across the nine communities where these speech forms are spoken. In analysing our data, Pike’s discovery procedure in phonological analysis and Swadesh’s principles of lexicostatistics were employed. Of the 200 lexical items extracted for the lexicostatistics analysis, 60 items which constitute 30% are cognate with Yoruba. This establishes Akokoid and Yoruba as members of a macro-family called Defoid, and not as dialects of the same languageItem "language of instruction preference of junior secondary school students in Ijebu-Ode Local Government, Ogun State "(Universite D'Abomey-Calavi, 2014-06) Adeyinka, A. A."This paper explains the importance of language among human beings especially in the classroom. It alludes to the national language policy in Nigeria that the language of the immediate community should be the medium of instruction in early primary education as it aids learner’s intellectual growth. It attempts to find out the language of instruction preference of junior secondary school students in Ijebu Ode Local Government Area, Ogun State. Three research questions were raised and a self-styled questionnaire, which reliability index is 0.63 was used to collect information. A total of six hundred and twenty four students, randomly selected from public and private secondary schools were used. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Findings revealed that students prefer their mother-tongue as a medium of instruction (x 3.34; S.D. = 0.94) while some even prefer the mother-tongue as a medium of instruction in teaching science subjects (x 2.63; S.D. = 1.26). Their reason for preference of the mother tongue was because they understand better. This study, amongst others, recommends that mother-tongue should be encouraged in schools and teachers should combine mother-tongue and English in their lessons. It concludes that English as Nigeria’s official language could be enhanced through the use of the mother tongue . "