A Review of the Ordeals of Learning a Foreign Language in Nigeria: French Language in Focus
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https://doi.org/10.18533/journal.v3i1.253Keywords:
Ordeals, foreign language, learning, interference.Abstract
An international bilingual person certainly has access to information and exposure than one with
only one international language, In this regards, Nigerians have to learn a second official
language – French which will certainly help to fit into the globalised economy successfully
considering the fact that language is the heartbeat of all communication. Hence this paper
through a sociolinguistic approach tends to highlight the sufferings encountered in learning this
second official language and then recommends differs steps to alleviate these unpleasant rigours
which have presented the language as an insurmountable mountain and a round peg in a square
hole to learners of the language in Nigeria. This will hopefully contribute to the progress of
French teaching and learning in Nigeria.
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