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Report Resumes Ed 012 990 Al 000 370 English Language Teaching in Northern Nigeria--A Survey REPORT RESUMES ED 012 990 AL 000 370 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN NORTHERN NIGERIA--A SURVEY. BY- TIFFEN, S.W. AHMADU BELLO UNIV., ZARIA ANIGERIAT REPORT NUMBER INST-EDUC-PAP-1 PUB DATE JUN 66 EDRS PRICE MF-50.25 HC-S2.04 DESCRIPTORS- *ENGLISH (SECOND LANGUAGE), *EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES, *EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES, AFRICAN CULTURE, LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION, GRIEVE REPORT, NIGERIA THIS SURVEY IS AN OVERVIEW OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL TO UNIVERSITY. THE INTRODUCTION PROVIDES A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE LINGUISTIC AND GENERAL EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND OF THE COUNTRY. THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS DEAL WITH THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, POSTPRIMARY WORK, THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, THE TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY IN ZARIA, AND CURRENT EXPERIMENTS AND FUTURE NEEDS. SPECIFIC MENTION IS MADE OF THE "STRAIGHT FOR ENGLISH" AND "TOTAL ENGLISH" COURSES, AS WELL AS THE GRIEVE REPORT AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE ENGLISH TEACHING SITUATION. THE GRIEVE REPORT WAS ENTITLED "ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXAMINING" AND WAS PUBLISHED BY THE AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES PRESS FOR THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL, LAGOS, 1964. (AMM) 1.41. 4,1 \INSTITUTE OFEDUCATION I ENGLISH LANGUAGETEACHING IN NORTHERNNIGERIA ' A SURVEY "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS tritlifiefe MATERIAL HA BEEN GRANTED BY %, TO ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION. FURTHER REPRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEM REQUIRES PERMISSION OF 4 THE 1111611011POWNER." N B. W. Tiffen U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROMTHE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT.POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS ft STATED DP NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY. tr, Institute Paper No. I June 1966. 000370 *, ,..pt* A 10,', Institute of EducatialaucaLliaLls MUSH LANGUAGETEACHING IN MRTHERN NIGERIA: ASURVEY By B.. W. Tiff ez% Institute of Education, Ahmadu Bello University, ?Aria, Northorn Nigeria. Juno 1966 I 4111*41.4114+.04414*.4.w44.46:W BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Mr.Brian W. Tiffen is aBritish CouncilEnglish language specialist on secondment to the Departmentof Education, Ahmadu Bello University.Hetook a degree in Modern Lanbuages at Oxford. University andsubsequently obtained the Postgraduate Certificate in Education at theInstitute of Education, University of London. From 1952 to 1957 he served.as anEducationOfficer in the Western RegionofNigeria.From 1958 to 1963 he taught in various institutions in London, workingfirstly with overseas students and then with children of primaryschool age. On joining the British Council, he spentsome months at the English Teaching Information Centre, London, followed bya oouras leading to the Diploma in Linguistics at the UniversityCollege of North Wales, Bangor.He has been in Zaria since September, 1964. (iii) CONTENTS Introduction 1 1.1. Theinguisiio background 3 1.2. Faots and figures 2. Tho primary sohool 5 241. The aims of theprimary. school 6 2.2. 'Straight for English' 9 2.3. Tho teachers 2.l.. Teaching problems 3.4. 2.5.The expansion ofprimary oduoation r ica .at3t.Eima work 3.Thebd e 16 M 3.1. 'Total English' courses The settalamadtal 19 4.1.0 The Grieve Report of teachers 21 4..2. The re orientation 241. 443.Teaching problems 5..The teacher tr...ai:asj2c)34. Institute of Education 29 5.1.The role of the 31 5.2.The training ofteachers 6. AhreiBelloUni,....;Ler.§1.22.....tZaria 35 6.1.Freshmanlatroduotory courses Degree in English 36 6.2. The Special Honours teachers of English 38 6.3.Training graduate a 7. Research 42 7.1.Current experiments 4.3 7.2.Future needs. 1. Introduction la The linguisticbackground of English This paper triesto survey someof the problems Northern Nigeria,from the language teachingat all levels in been made to primary school tothe university. No attempt has For this, readers describe the eduoationalsystem in detail. Northern are referredto ampatigntermirologY guide fo,p Nigdria.(1). Nigeria has been summed The languagebackground of Northern .0 follows: (2) up by Mr.A. H. M. KirkGreene as 248 lansuages areclaimed to have "In Nigeria alone identify the been classified. In the North we can main languages as(1) Hausa; (2) Fulani(properly (6) Tiv; Fulfulde) ;(3) Yoruba;(14.) Kanuri; (5) Nupe; with lesser languages,according to ethnicproportion, in the riverain andplateau areas like Igala,Idoma, Igbirra, Bachama, Birom,Kagoro, Kamberi, etc;Many Of the major languageshave distinct dialectical differences in bothvocabulary and syntax". the most important. Of these languages,Hausa is undoubtedly in large areas of Not only is itspoken as a mother tongue Northam Nigeria and othe Niger Republic, butis widely used Africa. Probably as avehicular language inother parts of West speak it as their firstlanguage and at so' 20 million people Hausa is least half as manyagain use it as a linguafranca, Kano and northern Zaria the mother tonguein Sokoto, Katsina, generally Provinces, andalso in Bauchi. The Kano dialect is A. R. Allen andWilliam J. Miller. Education guide for NorthernNigeria. Institute of Education Paper No. 2, Zaria,June 1966. the study A. H. M.Iirki4reene.A working introduction to (2) Northern Ni aria. of Hausa andthe major languages of Department of Languages,Occasional Paper No. 3, ?aria,,1965 - 2 - considered to be the standard form. There are two dialects of Fulani: "the Eastern, spoken mostly in Adamawa. and Gombe, and the Western, spoken in Sokoto and by the nomadic Fulani moving southwards from there". (3), Yoruba is spokenin most of florin Province and in parts of Kabba Profince. Kanuri is spoken in Bornu Province by the Kanuri or Barebari people, with Maiduguri as its centre. The Nupe language is centred round Bide in Niger Province. Tiv is spoken in Tiv Division in Benue Province; Igala in Igala Division in Kabba Province; Idoma in Idoma Division in Benue Province; while Igbirra is centred round Okene in Kabba Prov- a ince. In Plateau, Bauchi, Sardauna, Adamawa, Southern Zaria, northern Niger and parts of Bornu Provinces a very large number of minor languages are spoken. In the big towns a variety of languages occur, including those of southern Nigerians.Among these communities pidgin English may sometimes be heard.The general lingua franca 'in most of Northern Nigeria is, however, Hausa. English may be considered one of the major languages of Nigeria.Together with Hausa it is the official language of the North. It is the language of almost all western -typo education, the Civil Service, most of the press, and to a lesser extent, of radio and television. Many educated Northerners use English as a means of communication among nOrtbernmost themselves and those coming from the provinoos often speak with an accent remarkably close to Received (3) A. M. H. Kirk- Greene. °peat. t Pronunciation. C4.). But it is in the realm of education that English plays such a crucial role:for without English, there could, as yet, be very little education, in the Western sense of the word, except at the lower levels of the primaryschool. 1.2 lhots and figures Education is expanding rapidly in Northern Nigeria, asthe following facts and. 'figures show:- (a) Primary schools 1161. 2.Z1 (5, 6) No. of primary. schools 2,150 2,743 (estimate only) No. of pupils 316,264. 4.92,510 (b) Sewcondary &rammer schools 72 No of secondary @ohools . 4.7 No. of pupils 6,4107 14,169 (o) Teacher training oollegil No. oftraining colleges 44. 55 No. of pupils 4.,668 11,008 The most striking factor shownin these figures lies in the considerable increase inenrolment figures. Between 1961 discussion of this and relatedproblems 4. For a more detailed see: Ce E. NutbaIl.ProblemsofE:lisiteo.chin:inNorth- ,ernNiudt. Symposiumon=1---W----.inlism,CiguaCTACSA cation No. 87, London,1962,pp 109 . 120 (5) Claw ©senrolments and teacher's in therims schools of Northern Nigeria, 1W5.,Minium,16siwycd'EauxatIon,Kad.95 (6) Classes, enrolments and teachers inthe schools of Northern Simr.ia, 1965, Ministry of Education,Kaduna, 1965 and 1965 percentage increases were as follows:- % increase in enrolment Primary schools 241% Secondary schools .... 118% Training colleges 1/44% However, despite the rate of expansion in numbers of schools and students, two other factors must be borne in mind. First, the overall percentage of children of primary schoolage who are actually in school is still low - 11.91% (More recent estimates, based on the latest census figures and taking into aocount a 27; increase in population per annum suggest that the figures may be oven lower, nearer 8%). However, this overall figure tends to give a misleading picture, as the proportion of .. children in primary school varies considerably from area to area. Three figures reveal these differences. very clearly: Sokoto Province 3.94%, Kabba PrOvince 33.14, Kaduna. Capital Territory 67.27%. Secondly, the educational opportunities for. primary school. leavers are, as yet, limited; For example in 1964. there were 32,698 pupils in Primary 7 classes in Northern Nigeria. lment figures for the first forms of three types of post- primary institutions in 1965 were:- Secondary grammar schools 3;712 Teacher training colleges 2,755 Craft Schools 633 Total 7,100 Thus the pr portion of primary class 7 children who went onto post-primary education of one kind oranotherixf2965 was.21%,,1771 of ,the 011,1Bren.left schnoleaUorcathor. The primaryschool 2. 2.1 The aimsoftherlool of the Nigerianprimary school One of thebasic dilemmas what it is for. Is its is that it isdifficult to be
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