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Use of indigenous languages, solution to ssce failure trend —Don
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<p>Former Director, Distance Learning
Centre, University of Ibadan, Professor Francis Egbokhare, has
recommended the use of indigenous languages or language of the
environment as medium of instruction at the pre-primary and primary
school level as solution to the trend of unimpressive SSCE results.</p>
<p>Citing the success of the Ife Six-Year Primary Project, Egbokhare,
speaking with the Nigerian Tribune, said that a return to the use of
indigenous languages will greatly enhance the innovative and creative
capacity of students, hence, enables them appreciate and understand what
they are being taught.</p>
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further noted that many students from primary to university level
continue to grapple with the problem of limited English proficiency
because they do not understand the large body of the materials that they
read.</p>
<p>“Because WAEC and NECO are not fiddling with results, that is why the
reality is dawning on everybody. For me, the ideal is that English can
run as a parallel subject if we have the resources and will and capacity
to translate a lot of these documents to indigenous languages,”
Egbokhare said.</p>
<p>“Our children are deformed from the beginning. If you train people in
a foreign language from the beginning, you are already creating a
problem for them because in the building of their own world view, they
need their mother tongue which is the language of their environment in
order to properly appreciate, understand, interpret the world in which
they live,” Egbokhare explained.</p>
<p>According to him, just like students, teachers also are of poor quality.</p>
<p>“We shall begin to find teachers who need to be taught because they
themselves passed through a system that there is distortion in their
intellectual capacity and ability,” Egbokhare noted.</p>
<p>He called for the political will of the country’s leadership to
invest in the development of resources that will facilitate
implementation of the country’s existing language policy.</p> <a href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/news-headlines/item/14914-use-of-indigenous-languages-solution-to-ssce-failure-trend-don">http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/news-headlines/item/14914-use-of-indigenous-languages-solution-to-ssce-failure-trend-don</a><br>
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