THE EFFECT OF NIGERIA PIDGIN ON THE USE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AMONG STUDENTS
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Abstract
The study is to examine the effect of Nigerian Pidgin on the use of English language. The main objective of this research work was to find out the impact of Nigerian Pidgin on using English as a language for communication among 300 Level Students of Kaduna State College of Education. The design used for the study is a descriptive survey method. The numbers of students used are one hundred and thirty-three (133) from Kaduna State College of Education. Five research questions were formulated to guide the study, from which the questionnaire was designed. From the analyzed data, it showed that students frequently use Pidgin in their daily communication within the school premises, lack of effective usage of English language has prompted student to use Pidgin in their communication and the use of Nigeria pidgin by male and female students has encourage wrong use and expression of English language. It was recommended that Staff and students in tertiary institution across the federation should engage the use of Standard English language in the communication rather than use of Nigeria Pidgin. In addition, the use of Nigerian Pidgin by students during official communication should not be encouraged by the school management and lecturers.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
English language in Nigeria is a second language. It is a second language because Nigerians already had their first language or Mother Tongue (L1) before the incursion of this foreign language called ‘English’ into the country. In this instance a foreign language (English) left its native environment and met with another language or languages (Nigerian indigenous languages). In Africa, pidgins found include; Nigerian pidgin, Cameroonian pidgin, Serria Leone Krio etc. Pidgins are mostly inventionist and innovative in nature and because of their spontaneous adaptability, they can be as structured or as unstructured as needed unlike other languages. This is to say that in pidgin, there are no strict rules given in utterances.
Alternatively, following a Hindu tradition, language came from the goddess Sarasvati, wife of Brahma, creator of the universe. In an attempt to rediscover this original divine language, a few experiments have been carried out, with rather conflicting results. The natural sound was also seen as the concept of “natural sounds”. The suggestion is that primitive words could have been imitations of the natural sound which early men and women heard around them. When an object flew by, making a CAWCAW sound, the early humans imitated the sound and used it to refer to the object associated with the sound. Also, one suggestion regarding the origin of the sounds of language involves a link between physical gesture and orally produced sounds. It does seem reasonable that physical gesture, involving the whole body, could have been a means of indicating a wide range of emotional states and intentions.
A quite different level of speculation on the origins of human speech comes under the general heading of gloss genetics. This focuses mainly on the biological basis on the formation and development of human language. Language origin is inconsequential though, it is one of the major distinguishing factors of man from animal because it forms the basis for communication which essentially is a human characteristic.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
It is becoming increasingly difficult if a particular student really went to school or perhaps was well schooled in the rudiments of English. It is not an over statement if we say that most of the students cannot make simple, clear and error-free sentences in English language. This has been attributed to the frequent use of pidgin by students either by way of code switching or code mixing in communication at home, school and their neighbourhood. Though Pidgin English is fast becoming more and more important as a language but notwithstanding, English remain the only official language of communication in Nigeria. Therefore, Pidgin English, when it is first learnt by children, poses some problems in their later life. They will find it difficult to differentiate between pidgin and Standard English both in their spoken and written form. Again the use of pidgin impeded proper communication in the sense that the students have limited language as a means of communication in a country like ours. Where English becomes a problem for a child when he gets to school as he cannot understand the teacher because the only language he/she understands in pidgin English.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Nigerian Pidgin on the use of English language among 300L students of Kaduna State College of Education. Specifically, the study tends to:
- Identify how Nigerian Pidgin English enhances or diminishes 300 Level students’ use of English language effectively.
- Ascertain the effect of Nigerian Pidgin English when used as a means of communication among students in Kaduna State College of Education.
- Whether the use of Nigerian pidgin English affect the students’ academic performance in Kaduna State College of Education.
- The treat the use of Nigerian pidgin English poses on academic performance of Kaduna State College of Education.
- This study will also look into the history of the Pidgin English especially how it became so widely used in our colleges today.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
- Does Nigerian Pidgin English enhance or diminish students’ academic performance of college of education students?
- Does the use of Nigerian pidgin English poses any treat on academic performance of Kaduna State College of Education?
iii. Does the application of Nigerian pidgin affects the effective channel of communication between 3oo level students in college of education?
- What will be the effect of Nigerian Pidgin English when used as a means of communication among students of University students?
- what position and value does Nigerian pidgin English has on communication among college of education students?
1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
H0: the level of use of Nigerian pidgin among 300 level students in Kaduna State College of education is low.
H1: the level of use of Nigerian pidgin among 300 level students in Kaduna State College of education is high.
H0: Nigerian Pidgin English does not significantly affect the academic performance of college of education students.
H2: Nigerian Pidgin English significantly affects the academic performance of college of education students.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The study will be of great benefit to College of Education Students and lecturers, government, parents, authors, and publishers of English textbooks are expected to benefit from the findings of this study. Students are going to benefit from the study because they will discover that pidgin has some limitations. For instance, they cannot use pidgin to write internal examinations. They cannot use pidgin to communicate their ideas in the midst of educated people. This study will help them begin to use English so as to be conversant in it and at the same time meet their academic attainment.
This study will benefit the lecturers in that it will move them to use simple and correct English in teaching instead of Pidgin English. The school management board will also benefit from this study since it will help them to understand the causes of failure in English in the senior school certificate examinations and other unified English examinations. The authors of textbooks at all level of learning are not left out among the beneficiaries. This study will enable them to realize that using pidgin English to express themselves will not in any way build up the students whom they are trying to build.
1.7 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
The scope of this study is on the effects of the Nigerian pidgin on the use of English in Kaduna State College of Education. An assessment of its use in various forms will be carried out. The study focuses on both male and female students from the college of education, Kaduna State even though the findings might be generic.
1.8 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Questionnaires were distributed to hundred (133) students in college of education, Kaduna State which is my case study and these questionnaires were filled and collected and the hundred and thirty three questionnaires were returned. The result/total of responses from the respondents is tabled in the yes/no format. The collection of data was done in two parts. The secondary and primary source. The primary source is the questionnaire; the secondary source includes textbooks, journals and so on. The materials were researched upon in college of education libraries. The total number of hundred and thirty three (133) questionnaires were distributed and the simple percentage is the method used in calculating the different responses.
1.9 Definition of terms
Use: take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishing or achieving something; employ; the action of using something or the state of being used for a purpose.
Nigeria Pidgin: is an English-based pidgin and creole language spoken as a lingua franca across Nigeria. The language is commonly referred to as “Pidgin” or “Brokin”.
Student: is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution; children, teenagers, or adults who attend a school, but it may also be other people who attend a school.
PE: This is an acronym for Pidgin English
NPE: this is an acronym for Nigerian Pidgin English
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