ENGLISH PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 121. CODE MIXING AS A SOCIOLINGUISTIC MEDIUM IN SOME SELECTED SONGS IN THE NIGERIAN M...

  » CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Society impinges on language, and language impinges on the society. Hence, there must be a relationship existing between language and society. The interdependency of these two entities – language and society led to the study of sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics is the study of all aspects of linguistics applied towards the connect...Continue Reading »

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• 122. CULTURE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE JOYS OF MOTHE...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Throughout history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men, wifehood and womanhood were considered as women’s most significant professions, and they were long considered naturally weaker than men. Their rights and being were taken for granted. Silence became the virtue of women but with education, the ...Continue Reading »

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• 123. EMERGENT TRADITION AND THE AFRICAN POETRY, A CASE STUDY OF TANURE OJAIDE’S THE...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The word ‘emergent’, means something new and still developing, while ‘tradition’ is a belief custom or way of doing something that has been in existence for a long time among a particular group of people. Therefore, emergent tradition is a new development in literary works. Also some certain writers have come up with new traditions and these writers...Continue Reading »

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• 124. FEMINISM USING BUCHI EMECHETA’S ‘THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD’ AND ZAYNAB ALIKAL...

  » CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0 Introduction This chapter will look into the background and the general introduction of feminism using Buchi Emecheta and Zaynab Akali’s ‘The Joys of Motherhood and ‘The Stillborn’ respectively. Also, it shall discuss purpose and scope of the study and finally the biography of the two authors. 1.1 Background of the study Feminist ideolog...Continue Reading »

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• 125. FEMINIST AESTHETICS IN OLA ROTIMI’S OUR HUSBAND HAS GONE MAD AGAIN AND FEMI OS...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKROUND OF THE STUDY Feminism as a literary theory is an ideology which tends towards female Liberace in the society. (Joseph 2003:99) describes feminism as an ideology of social commitment to the struggle for female libration in the society through conscious and collective effort. Feminism Raji (1999:228) says feminism a concerns itself with contemporary agitation b...Continue Reading »

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• 126. FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES IN AMA ATA AIDOO’S CHANGES AND IFEOMA OKOYE’S BEHIND T...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In the 18th Century significant changes happened in the life of women, these changes brought about the various feminist movement where small groups of women introduced activities and the awareness of women’s right. The growth of feminism began in Europe and America when women became curious of their oppression and marginalization and took ...Continue Reading »

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• 127. FOLKLORE AND THE QUEST FOR RE-INVENTION A STUDY OF WOLE SOYINKA’S DEATH AND TH...

  » CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY A member of African dramatists who writes African plays in English Language adapt their work from the oral tradition particularly Wole Soyinka and Hope Enghagha whose works serve as the focus of this research. Wole Soyinka’s Death and the king’s Horseman (1975) are based on ritual, custom, tradition of particular people, whic...Continue Reading »

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• 128. POLITICS AND AESTHETICS IN SELECTED PLAYS OF WOLE SOYINKA

  » CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY According to Leftwich (1983) politics consists of all the activities of cooperation and conflict within and between societies, whereby the human species go about obtaining, using, producing and distributing resources in the course of the production and reproduction of its social and political life. Politics in this sense therefore enable...Continue Reading »

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• 129. SYNTACTIC AND LEXICO-SEMANTIC ANALYSES OF SELECTED SMS TEXT MESSAGES

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Communication through an effective use of language is a tool that makes a good human relationship. Human beings are considered higher animals because of their ability to communicate effectively through the use of language. Language as a tool for effective communication is the most important part of a human being that makes him different from ani...Continue Reading »

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• 130. THE IMPACT OF YORUBA LANGUAGE ON THE SPOKEN ENGLISH OF STUDENTS (INDIGENES) OF I...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 GENERAL INTRODUCTION To correct the wrong pronunciation of English words in many Nigerian students, particularly among the Ilorin indigenous Yoruba students demands extra effort and great attention. This is because, it is observed that this problem is the result of the features found in their indigenous languages which are transferred to the sound system of the English language. Th...Continue Reading »

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• 131. THE OSUN OSOGBO FESTIVAL: ITS FUNCTIONS AND AESTHETICS.

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Introduction BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Festival is an event usually set by a local community. It centres on and some unique Aspects of that community. It is a set of activities and practice designed to entertain the People of that particular community. Among many religions, a ‘feast’ is a set celebration in honour of God or gods. A Feast and a festival is historically int...Continue Reading »

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• 132. A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF ORGANISATIONAL SIGNALS AND SUB-THEMATIC IDENTIFICATION E...

  » INTRODUCTION 1.0 Preamble This initial chapter is an introduction to the research on text coherence as a component of discourse analysis in linguistics.The main focus of the study is on the analysis of relatedness of the elements of writing in newspaper essays in the Nigerian context. It is, therefore, worthwhile to note from the onset that good writing is that in which ideas are properly connecte...Continue Reading »

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• 133. UTOPIANISM AND CHARATERISATION IN AMINATA SOWFALL’S THE BEGGER’S STRIKE AND ...

  » CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Though a lot of people have written Utopianism and characterization, but this research work is to assess Utopianism in Aminata Sowfall’s The Beggars Strike and Sembene Ousmane’s Xala through the use of characterization. Hegel’s in the phenomenology of spirit maintains that as a warning against all forms of Utopianism, similar O...Continue Reading »

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• 134. A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCE OF GENDER ON THE LANGUAGE USE OF 400...

  » ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate a sociolinguistic analysis of the influence of gender on the language use of 400 level students. To achieve this objective, four research questions were stated to guide this study. The data collected were analyzed using simple percentages and tables to analyze research questions and Chi square statistical tool was used for testing of research hypo...Continue Reading »

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• 135. THE PERSPECTIVE OF ORAL LITERATURE AND AFRICAN CULTURE IN BENIN KINGDOM AS PORTR...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Oral literature or folk literature correspond in the sphere of the spoken (oral/word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word. It thus forms a generally more fundamental component of culture, but in many ways as one might expect literature to do. The Uganda scholar Piozirima introduced the term oratory in an att...Continue Reading »

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• 136. THE MISUSE OF THE ENGLISH ARTICLES IN SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Using the dual perspectives of post colonial and neo colonial studies, this paper portions the traumatizing impact of the neo colonialist leadership on Africa and Africa’s creative writers, as a strand of the continent’s intellectual class striving for genuine independence. It shows the African writer as frequents site for the cl...Continue Reading »

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• 137. AN INVESTIGATION INTO ACADEMIC INDISCIPLINE AND FAILURE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL S...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of the Study According to Oxford Advanced learners Dictionary (7th editions) failure is lack of success in doing or achieving something. It is pertinent (relevant) to know that everybody in every works of life is afraid of failure. According to America Heritage (R) Dictionary, failure is lack of discipline or restraint (control) while failure to fulfill p...Continue Reading »

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• 138. STRUGGLE AND SURVIVAL IN A COWRIE OF HOPE BY BINWELL SINYANGWE AND THE CARDINALS...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYLife is full of struggles. Man lives in a hard and harsh environment where he struggles, toils and labours from day to day in order to survive.Every living thing on earth struggles for survival, both plants and animals. Plants struggle, searching for sunlight to survive. Even lower animals with low mentality struggle for survival. Human beings ar...Continue Reading »

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• 139. COMPARISM OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ENGLISH...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTIONBACKGROUND OF THE STUDYMeasuring of academic performance of student is challenging since student performance is the product of socio economic, psychological and environmental factors. Education ought to be growing as a profitable industry with prime objective of maximizing profit by delivering high quality education that produces well educated, skilled mannered students acc...Continue Reading »

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• 140. INSTRUCTIONAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE POOR PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL CERTIFICAT...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTIONBackground of the StudyTeaching is communication. In a good communication, there are three important aspects. These include the person giving the information, the message that is to be passed and the receivers.According to Wikipedia Encyclopedia, instructional refers to the practice of maximizing the effectiveness, efficiency and appeal of teaching and learning experiences....Continue Reading »

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