₦airaland Forum

GloriousGbola:
There is a movement that keeps advocating teaching in Yoruba. It goes right back to tai solarin who really believed in it. There is an excerpt from one of his Books where a kid was having trouble comprehending angles and then the teacher explained in Yoruba and it worked. I have also brushed against this with classmates even once in a car on a journey with a lecturer. I shut that down very quickly by pointing out that we don't have written language to start with, we are using English characters to attempt to represent our language.

popizaino:
The state of your club,form at a particular time and period determines whether you be termed underdog or favourites. It changes with time,form and anything and also never constant. That's why you see odd changing every now and then. Nobody will tip AC milan as UCL favourite in this year's competition because they have 7 UCL,no bookmaker will see man united and call them UCL favourites if they made the competition this season with their new coach,no body will term AJax as UCL favourites because they won the UCL 3 consecutivelyin the past or because they recently beat Madrid and juventus. On what basis will someone call Borrusia Dortmund favourites to win this year's UCL or would have called Chelsea favourites to win the UCL in 2021? Is it the world class players that we had then or the excellent domestic season we were having or Tuchel a multiple champions league winner coming ? Truth is Tuchel won as underdog.

chrisooblog:
Bala buu bala buuu blu blu blu symbol

https://twitter.com/Gidi_Traffic/status/1594008726088081408?s=20&t=kzeadmsJKKxiQH21z4DsMg[/quote]Lols, ololade mi Jagaban

DissTroyer:
That's oppression. There are 18 LGAs in Cross River and nothing less than 70 languages and ethnicities.
Efik and Ejagham are the major languages.

Instead of speaking and learning in English, if you cajole all 70 ethnicities to learn 3 native languages of their more dominant neighbours for sciences and other subject areas in school, what you are doing is no different from what the European invaders did to the places they invaded - neocolonialism.

Theflint1:
Most of these countries you speak of are "one-language" countries, and work has already been done to standardize language of instruction in schools. How many languages do you plan on translating these curriculums into, and how do we then function as one country with each person haven gone through school taught in their respective languages?

Theflint1:
Yea, pidgin English

Theflint1:
The language of instruction is far from why students in Nigeria read to pass exams and not understand. These students would be taught in their indigenous languages and it'd be the same reading to pass exams, only this time in their indigenous language.

DissTroyer:
Ikom LGA alone in Cross River State has 13 languages and ethnicities.

Akamkpa LGA alone in Cross River State has 13 languages and ethnicities too.

There are 18 LGAs in Cross River State.

Goodluck translating Translation Newton's Laws into them.

Theflint1:
I get the point you're making with this Yoruba/Hausa use of their indigenous languages, Hausa's do speak it a lot more, in fact, a good number of them type in Hausa when conversing online. But what I don't get is why you thinking teaching kids science in their local languages is helpful?

raumdeuter:
If you understand a subject very well you can explain in any language

The problem might be with the teacher who doesn't understand what he is teaching. And just copy and paste for the student. I have shared story of a corner colleague who writes lesson notes for Maths and just copy and paste in the board
When I teach Maths I don't even need a lesson note

There was a topic in light Physics and the teacher was explaining to us how light rays move differently when they hit a mirror and he simply used an example that when you are running on a plain field you will run straight but the moment you hit the bush you will have to slow down. He described the running in a funny Ekiti term that got us laughing and over 25yrs later I still remember that explanation

raumdeuter:
I am sure if you go to the interior outside Lagos many teaching even of English language as a subject mix local language into it.

Most teachers don't use pure English to teach and this has been the practice for a long time

GloriousGbola:
There are no actual Yoruba words for these concepts

Grafiti
Relatifiti

Or my fave
Shake e shake e shake e bota tan e tan e tan titi daro ola ati tan
Check it check it check out on and on and on until the break dawn its on

nihilistjnr:
Yeah but to what point though.

I know a guy that localised an entire Linux build to Yoruba.

Chances are that if you are a Nigerian using Linux, then English is nor your problem

So in this case, my guy was creating a solution in search of a problem that didn't exist.

The current political structure of Nigeria necessitates a common lingua franca, negating the need ro teach maths in Yoruba or Efik...

At least at this point.

If exams will be set in English, then students should be instructed in English.

However I see and agree with yours and A001 broader point about a need for continued promotion of our indigenous culture. Where I disagree with you is in how we do it - for me rhe obvious vehicle for this is humanities and the arts.

I just don't see the point of instructing STEM subjects in Yoruba or Ibibio

nihilistjnr:
YouTube videos in English or Yoruba?

raumdeuter:
I will like you to use 2 Yoruba sentence to teach any concept in Physics and would like to see how it will go

Also when the exams will be in English so what have you achieved?

E.g Force = mass X acceleration
Force = Agbara mass = iwon acceleration = igbera?
As a Physics student I even had problems conceptualizing the difference between speed and velocity or mass vs weight scalar vs vector

StarchAndBanga:
Oh.. I get u now.

But u don't expect teachers in school to do thesame when there might be other students in class who are not Yoruba

nihilistjnr:
How do you define the concepts of say refraction in physics, or differentiation and integration in maths in Yoruba?

I'm interested in this

Itsrm:
Stick to spreading the gospel of Otem.

The way this thing dey pain you, try get rid of any rope around you before you tie am for ceiling and decide to end it all

raumdeuter:
What do you call momentum, angular velocity, acceleration, refractive index, convex, concave, focal point, gravitational pull, escape velocity in Yoruba

StarchAndBanga:
So the school/schools u teach, only Yoruba students attend those schools or what?

Itsrm:
So why were you saying Yorubas prefer speaking in English when you are admitting here they are "forced" to speak in English by their teachers through punishment.

If they prefer speaking in English, why does the teacher need to punish

Itsrm:
My brain dey leak

OasisX:


E ma binu Egbon. Mi o mo pe E se ti Otemu mo. No vex bruh, didn't know you've forsaken Otem.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Chemistry, Physics and Biology textbooks are written in English

Do you expect the teacher to start interpreting it in Yoruba?

Or they should use Yoruba to teach English language?

Did you also consider that the class is usually mixed too?[/color]

OasisX:


Baba Otem..... you don win. Mi o lagbaja fun wahala.

Itsrm:
I think baba should stick to preaching the gospel of Otem as you said

OasisX:



Do you send Kids to School to learn Yoruba or Text Books are written in Ijebu dialect?!

larride:
Bros when Yoruba politicians are talking with their people, they speak Yoruba bro. YORUBA.

Infact most of the campaign slogan in Yoruba land are always in Yoruba.

I dont know what you are driving at really.

Even in nearby Kwara, we have Otoge

Itsrm:
I know what it means but I had to ask you when I saw this.



The yoruba by itself is vernacular so saying they consider their mother tongue vernacular makes no sense. What would they have considered it? Binocular?