ENGLISH PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 141. IMPACT OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ORAL ENGLIS...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION1.1 Background of the Study In one sense, we are being educated all the time, to the extent that everything that happens to us may bring about some changes in the way we feel, think, act and obviously the way we speak. We learn from the things we hear, from the circumstances in which we live, the people we meet, ideas in books or papers. In fact everything that surround...Continue Reading »

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• 142. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN WAEC BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY AND ENGLISH

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Meaning of academic performance of student is challenging, since science student performance is the produce 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 and ...Continue Reading »

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• 143. AVAILABILITY AND USE OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL IN TEACHING OF BASIC SCIENCE IN S...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY According to Aguokogbuo (2000) says that educational experiences involving the learner actively participating in concrete examples are retained longer than abstract experiences.Instructional material elements of reality by providing concrete examples to learning many authors have written on the use of instructional materials both in teaching...Continue Reading »

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• 144. LANGUAGE OF PERSUASION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE INAUGURAL SPEECHES OF PRESIDENTS JONA...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The study of language is captivating due to the role it plays in capturing all aspects of human thoughts and endeavours. Language playsso many roles in our society among which is the forming of social psychology with regard to how attitudes and perceptions are expressed (Yule, 254). Adedimeji also adds that, ‘language mainly serves to ...Continue Reading »

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• 145. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PROVISION, UTILIZATION AND NURSERY PUPILS’ PERFORMANC...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Education is an important instrument for the development of a nation’s social life, human resources, political awareness and the economy at large. It is clearly stated by the federal republic of Nigeria (1988:15) in her national policy of education that ‘education has been adopted as an instrument for effecting national development: ...Continue Reading »

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• 146. THE ROLES OF FEMALE CHARACTER IN BENIN ORAL NARRATIVES

  » CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTION1.1 PURPOSE OF STUDYThis study examines the roles and /life style of females characters as minor characters in Benin oral narrative. It appreciates the strengths; examine the weakness, and points out the predicaments that these historical Benin women went through.This study attempts an inquiry into the nature and roles of Benin women, and women at large in oral narrative...Continue Reading »

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• 147. THIS STUDY CRITICALLY EXAMINES THE SUBJECT MATTER AND STYLE IN EZENWA OHAETO `S ...

  » CHAPTER ONE1.1.IntroductionPoetry as a genre of literature is a channel of expression where sound, form and words meet in order to achieve meaning. J.O.J Nwachukwu Agbada quoted Kuo Mojo, the Chinese poet, in describing poetry as the “music invoked from men`s hearts by the age in which they live” (African 5). Thus, for Kuo Mojo, it is a rhythm born from the inner man to express the phy...Continue Reading »

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• 148. THE AESTHETIC FEATURES AND SOCIAL RELEVANCE OF FOLKTALES TO OKPARA INLAND COMMUN...

  » CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTION1.1 PURPOSE OF STUDYThe purpose of study of this essay is to examine the aesthetic features and social relevance of folktales in Okpara Inland community of Delta State.The educational relevance of the folktales, the effectiveness of the oral artist’s performance is measured by the influence of his stories on the young people. They are expected to derive knowledge a...Continue Reading »

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• 149. GLOBALIZATION AND THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: THE BABANGIDA PERIOD

  » CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYGlobalization is a comprehensive term for the emergence of a global society in which economic, political, environmental, and cultural events in one part of the world quickly come to have significance for people in other parts of the world.1 The term is also used to refer specifically to economic globalization in the context of integration of n...Continue Reading »

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• 150. THE POST INDEPENDENT NIGERIAN POLITICIAN IN WALE OKEDIRANS TENANTS OF THE HOUSE

  » CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYThis essay is on the post independence Nigerian politician in Wale Okediran’s Tenants of the House. The study examines the corrupt nature of Nigerian politics. The book itself is a skillful delineation of the ugly colors of Nigerian politics with its seeming intrigues, base motives, ‘win at all costs motive’ and money as the ...Continue Reading »

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• 151. CORRUPTION AND VICTIMIZATION IN ISIDORE OKPEWHO’S TIDES AND ANTHONY ABAGHA’S...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines corruption as a dishonest or illegal behaviour, especially of people in authority. In philosophical, theological or moral discussions, corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. In economy, corruption is payment for services, or materials which the recipient is not...Continue Reading »

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• 152. AFRICAN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN VALUES IN THE WORKS OF ASARE KONADU AND AMA ATA A...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In ethics, value denotes something degree of importance, with the aim of determining what action or life is best to do or live, or at least attempt to describe the value of different actions. It may be described as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, putting value to them. It deals with right conduct and good life, in the sense ...Continue Reading »

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• 153. THE LANGUAGE OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION The major objective of language is communication but the manner in which language communicates appears to be interlinked with individual experiences in terms of linguistic attitude, cultural influences and personal perception. Register is a term that is used to describe variations in language according to use. For instance, Thorne says that lawyers use a legal register, do...Continue Reading »

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• 154. THE EFFECTS OF NIGERIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH ON STUDENTS OF TERTIARY INSTITUTION

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY One of the most important differences between man and animal is man’s ability to speak and make others understand him. Language is only possible because within each society, people agree to understand a particular pattern of sound in a particular way. For instance, all English speaking countries understand the meaning of the word &lsqu...Continue Reading »

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• 155. THE IDEOLOGICAL PARADIGMS OF IBRAHIM TAHIR’S THE LAST IMAM AND ABUBAKAR GIMBAâ...

  » CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 Background of the study Nigeria as a multi ethnic, cultural and linguistic nation is unified by the fact that it shares basic national, economic, political and social problems that undoubtedly affect its nation in the same manner without consideration for geo political zone. Northern Nigerian literature like the literature of any part of the country or world reflects i...Continue Reading »

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• 156. THE AESTHETICS OF ADO-EKITI PRAISE POETRY

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY One of the most striking features of colonial administrations in Africa is their failure to understand the culture of the people they were privileged to govern. According to Nwosu (1980:4), “the utter failure of most of the bureaucrats concerned to grasp the realities of life of the various people they were privileged to govern”....Continue Reading »

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• 157. NATURE IN NIGERIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: AN APPRAISAL OF SELECTED VERSES

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY This study seeks to boost the corpus of Children‟s literature by appraising the representation of nature in selected Nigerian Children‟s poems. It makes use of Ecocriticism as a theoretical framework in illuminating the essence of nature in the selected verses. As an introduction, chapter one foregrounds this thesis with some basics of Child...Continue Reading »

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• 158. LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY: A STUDY OF WOLE SOYINKA’S A DANCE OF THE FORESTS AND T...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Humans all over the world who have the privilege of witnessing the modern era are inheritors of a magnificent history. The period marks not only the economic ascent of some third world countries but also ecological disorder and violent processes of change that challenge humans at every level imaginable. The 20th/21st century man is the recip...Continue Reading »

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• 159. HISTORICISM AS A LITERARY DISCOURSE: A STUDY OF ISIDORE OKPEWHO’S THE LAST DUT...

  » CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY As Chidi Amuta (1988) puts it, the Nigerian civil war literatures represent a ―significant step towards the politicization of the Nigerian literary imagination‖. Similarly the Second World War has also continued to attract intellectual discourse especially by African Scholars on the role played by Africans in its prosecution. Such treatises...Continue Reading »

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• 160. GENDER VIOLENCE IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND HALF OF A YE...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 background of the study Sex, Gender and Violence. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to women writing in Africa. Consequently, gender studies dominated the literary scene and the representation of women in male authored works precipitated many critical debates. In other words, there has been more interest in examining the ways in which men behave, part...Continue Reading »

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