A REVIEW OF THE BENEFITS AND OBSTACLES OF LEARNING FRENCH LANGUAGE IN NIGERIA

• Authors: Okoedion, Eseohe Glory

Abstracts

EN

Language is the primary mode of human expression. Language delineates humans from other animals. With the use of language in its oral and written form, humans are able to communicate and express their feelings within the cultural norms. In essence, lan-guage is a mean or process of understanding the experience, ideas, and emotions. Since French is a language, it performs all functions that human languages perform such as communicative, interactive, diplomatic and informative functions. These func-tions have an impact positively on sustainable human development of the country. In spite of the benefits that the Nigeria citizenry are to derive while learning French language, there are many obstacles on its way such as government attitude towards the language, learning environment, lack of infrastructures, lack of motivation, jobless-ness of the students, etc. Hence, the analysis of the benefits and obstacles of learning French language in Nigeria and recommendation of ways alleviate the obstacles of learning French Language in Nigeria is what this paper has set out to achieve.

Keywords

EN

Foreign language; Benefits; Obstacles; Learning; Multilingual

• Publisher: Międzynarodowy Instytut Innowacji Nauka – Edukacja – Rozwój w Warszawie
• Journal: International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 9(1)
• Pages: 341-351

Dates

published

2019-07-27

Contributors

author

Okoedion, Eseohe Glory

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.3054