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Emergence of English New Native Speakers in Nigeria: Reclassifying the English Speakers by BABATUNDE SAMUEL is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Emergence of English New Native Speakers in Nigeria: Reclassifying the English Speakers about?
This research decolonises the concept of new native speakers to mean “those who are bornin the inner circle” and establishes that, there are native speakers of English in Nigeria. Morerecently, a group of speakers has been identified known as; the English New Native Speakers.These speakers are mostly monolinguals, who have a good command of the English Language.They are without or with the bit of ability to speak or comprehend the local language(s) usedaround them. The new native speaker is a 21st-century phenomenon because these speakershave not been in existence in Nigeria before this time. This paper establishes the emergence ofthe New English Native Speakers in Nigeria and calls for the addition of new native speakersof English in the taxonomy of the existing classification of the speakers of English in Nigeria.This paper, therefore, advocates for the re-classification of the English speakers in Nigeria toinclude these new speakers. I postulate that the new taxonomy of the speakers in Nigeria shouldbe grouped thus: English new native speakers (speakers with little or no indigenous language),English as a second language (those who developed English as a second language, English
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- Author
- BABATUNDE SAMUEL
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction