Difference Or Disorder

Difference Or Disorder
Author: Ellen Kester
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2014-07-09
Genre: Language disorders
ISBN: 9780692254585

Accurately differentiate between errors that are related to second-language influence or are due to a communication disorder. Is your student having difficulty because they have an impairment or because they are learning a second language? Improve instructional targets for culturally and linguistically diverse students in the general education classroom as well as make gains and improve referrals for special education. The framework used in this book makes it easy for any education professional to distinguish between language differences and language disorders regardless of your own language background.

Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1994-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385474547

“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

My Talking Yoruba Book

My Talking Yoruba Book
Author: Ugo Ezeoke
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578680774

This book emanated from a need to teach our your children basic yoruba words in a format similar to what is obtained in English learning materials. It aims to introduce basic cultural practices and words to learners of all ages. Users of this book will learn beautiful nuggets about our African culture, read select folklore stories, all while learning basic words in an audio format with vividly illustrated visuals. We hope you enjoy and share this book with family and friends. Together, let us continue to promote and preserve our beautiful culture, and language.

Language Endangerment in Nigeria. The Case of Yoruba

Language Endangerment in Nigeria. The Case of Yoruba
Author:
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2017-03-31
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3668426139

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Würzburg (Anglistik), course: Language Contact, language: English, abstract: Language diversity is a cultural heritage of the world. Even though approximately 6,000 languages still exist, many minority languages are threatened with extinction in almost every part of the world. The study focuses on language endangerment in Nigeria presented by the example of Yoruba. The aim of this paper is to present the topic of language endangerment in general concerning the historical background, the classification, the value of languages, and the causes as well as the supports for language endangerment. It is discussed whether Yoruba counts into the category of endangered languages or not.

Comprehensive Igbo Language

Comprehensive Igbo Language
Author: Elisha O. Ogbonna
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-07-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781777277123

Comprehensive Igbo Language provides thorough and effective ways to learn and master the skills you need for Igbo communication, reading and writing. Unlike every other Igbo language book, it contains guide to pronunciation and detailed explanation on pitch accent marking and syllable formation. Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. This book helps you in-depth guide on unit of pronunciation and the formation of the whole or a part of a word. It has a solid grounding in grammar basics and progressive approach to learn Igbo in the manner, people naturally acquire language. You will be introduced to the most essential structures that will help you communicate in Igbo language almost immediately, from alphabet letter to word formation, and sentence construction apply the affixes usage order. It is laid out in a simple step-wise order and advances toward words vocabulary and communication revealing how Igbo language is spoken and written. It uncovers the most common concepts that govern verbs and sentences used in everyday communication. Comprehensive Igbo Language presents a unique and easy structure to master essential, grammar, verbs and vocabulary. It contains words and names used for family, friends, people, plants, animals, foods, time, colours, days, nature, occupation and so on. It also has exercises to help you test what you've learned and measure your progress. About the Author Elisha O. Ogbonna hails from Enugu in Igbo land, and Igbo language is his first language. Elisha stated reading Igbo book and Bible at the age of nine to help his late parents who lacked the skill to read and write Igbo language. He started teaching and translating English words and sentences to Igbo language by the time he entered into high school (secondary school). His performance was excellent in West Africa examination during high school. He had done translation and interpretation, both in traditional and religious settings. He once taught Igbo language in adult class, when he was a teacher. He is happy to help anyone who is interested in learning Igbo language and have set up a platform for such project. His next upcoming book will be for advance learners.

Nigerian Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms

Nigerian Languages, Literatures, Culture and Reforms
Author: Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher: M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Total Pages: 728
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9785416410

The papers in this volume were selected from the Silver Jubilee edition of the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigerian (LAN) which was held at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Abuja, Nigeria. The Silver Jubilee edition is dedicated to the father of Nigerian Linguistics, Professor Emeritus Ayo Bamgbose. Professor Emeritus Bamgbose was the first indigenous Professor of Linguistics in Nigeria, and the first black African to teach linguistics in any known university south of the Sahara. He was there from the very beginning, and together with co-operation of people such as the late Professor Kay Williamson, he nurtured Nigerian linguistics. He is not just a foremost Nigerian linguist, but also a most famous, respected, celebrated, distinguished, and cherished African linguist of all times. To be candid, Nigerian linguistics is synonymous with Professor Emeritus Bamgbose. In 58 well-written chapters by experts in their fields, the book covers aspects of Nigerian languages, linguistics, literatures and culture. The papers have not been categorized into sections; rather they flow, hence there is some overlapping in the arrangement. The book is an essential resource for all who are interested to learn about current trends in the study of languages, linguistics and related subject-matters in Nigeria.

Postcolonial Linguistic Voices

Postcolonial Linguistic Voices
Author: Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110260697

This volume investigates sociolinguistic discourses, identity choices and their representations in postcolonial national and social life, and traces them to the impact of colonial contact. The chapters stitch together current voices and identities emerging within both ex-colonized and ex-colonizer communities as each copes with the social, lingual, cultural, and religious mixes triggered by colonialism. These mixes, reflected in the five thematic parts of the book - 'postcolonial identities', 'nationhood discourses', 'translating the postcolonial', 'living the postcolonial', and 'colonizing the colonizer' - call for deeper investigations of postcolonial communities using emic approaches.

The Literary History of the Igbo Novel

The Literary History of the Igbo Novel
Author: Ernest N. Emenyonu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2020-02-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000040704

This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel. Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel" as a novel written in Igbo language, the author argues that oral and written literature in African indigenous languages hold an important foundational position in the history of African literature. Focusing on the contributions of Igbo writers to the development of African literature in African languages, the book examines the evolution, themes, and distinctive features of the Igbo novel, the historical circumstances of the rise of the African novel in the pre-colonial, era and their impact on the contemporary Igbo novel. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature, literary history, and Igbo studies.

A Grammar of Contemporary Igbo

A Grammar of Contemporary Igbo
Author: Emenanjo, E. Nolue
Publisher: M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2016-02-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9785412733

In twenty-five chapters this book covers phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The chapters are organized in four discrete parts: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. They are uneven in terms of scope covered, length, the density of their contents and their degrees of difficulty. Each chapter ends with ‘Some References’ relevant to both the topic(s) treated in the chapter, in Igbo linguistics, and in general linguistics.

Africa's Endangered Languages

Africa's Endangered Languages
Author: Jason Kandybowicz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2017
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0190256346

This book examines the endangered languages of Africa from both documentary and theoretical perspectives, highlighting the threats of extinction many of them face and the challenges and implications each bring to bear on linguistic theory. It focuses on the symbiosis between documentary and theoretical methodologies, and its consequences for the preservation of endangered languages, both in the African context and more broadly.