Funding: A critical issue in the implementation of language rights of speakers of languages with a few population
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policy implementation. No doubt failure to effectively implement
language policies has been the bane of language development in
Nigeria since after the first National Curriculum Conference in
1969. The importance of indigenous language in the cognitive and
psycho-social development of the learner is not in doubt,
unfortunately, indigenous language development especially for
speakers of languages that have few population have not been
adequately addressed due to factors which include unavailability of
funds, dearth of linguists in those languages and so on. It is obvious
from the research that the Kogi State government does not seem to
be favourably disposed to recognizing the language rights of the
children from these language groups inspite of the fact that
language policy recognizes the use of those languages in teaching
and learning from pre-primary to early primary (Primary 1 – 3).
Consequently, this study sets to explore the causes and consequences
of non-implementation of the multilingual policy at the lower basic
education as the researchers think that this challenge could be
responsible to why indigenous languages are not offered as courses
in Kogi state University, Anyigba. The study will be a descriptive
survey research and its theoretical basis stems from Joshua’s
Fishman’s theoretical of paradigm for language rights and
recognition. Recommendations will be made based on the findings of
the research.
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