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Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 10:37am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Dshocker: Any language they teach you with will still not save you from your dumbness since you cannot read simple article in the English you are already taught in. Read the article again and lets see whether you have any sense of comprehension. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 10:38am On Dec 01, 2022 |
southsouthking: So that you have identity and partially contribute to lessen your colomentality. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nobody: 10:40am On Dec 01, 2022 |
I did my home language Sepedi from primary until high school, but that didn't stop me from learning English too and I can speak and write it perfectly. miketayo: |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 10:45am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Yureyes: If you have no desire for your children to learn Yoruba and you live in a Yoruba place, then you have two options: 1) Move to a place where you want your children to learn the local language there. 2) Send your kids from age 6 to boarding school located in a place you want your children to learn the local language. 3) Send your children abroad to study; I guess, most likely to a country where they will speak fone and learn fone. Which do you prefer? |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 10:46am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Alvin007: Abi o. Some people were taught in English but still struggle to read in English, and yet are saying not being taught in English will be the problem. 1 Like |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Playthepianos: 10:55am On Dec 01, 2022 |
immortalcrown: Thrash. Much ado about nothing. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:01am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Peterobi90: People will always find excuse to continue engaging in their colomentality. The problem with education in Nigeria is funds and professionalism. Whether language of instruction is in English, Bini, Gwari or Japanese, those problems in public schools will still exists. In countries like Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland etc. the language of instruction for their children in primary and SECONDARY schools are their local mother tongue. Secondly, they use their local language to teach the kids English. Thirdly, as the children reach equivalent of Primary 4 to 6, they can further add another foreign language to learn like German, French or Spanish. So these primary school kids are learning 3 fcking languages with their local language used as teaching instructions. Yet, contrary to what colomentality mugus like you will claim, it does not confuse them. Adults of these countries taught in such manner speak better English than you, are better educated than you, more enlightened than you, more employable than you and the countries' education has not "retrogressed". The thing they have achieved is not to feel like second class humans to no one and they are employable at home and in foreign countries where they speak that countries language reasonable well/fluently. You go continue your colomentality where your children cannot speak their mother tongue and you have also given them English names because this makes you feel "cool" and "advanced". |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:05am On Dec 01, 2022 |
blaise26abj: Thank you. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Faposky95: 11:08am On Dec 01, 2022 |
....the plan to take us backwards to the stone age is real....... Mother what......wen hunger, vex dey load daily Japa, sapa...one's new dream slogans.... Oyinbo dey learn for oppression..... Infact, Dem dey confess steady say na black man institute black slavery, not them 1 Like |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:13am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Nwakannaya1: There are actually two options: 1) Make local languages the compulsory languages of instruction. 2) Make it compulsory that each kid (raised in Nigeria) must pass a primary school exam in a local Nigerian language to progress or gain entry into any secondary school in Nigeria. The second one might even be a better policy in my view. That would provide some sense of equity for those not living in their native land but simultaneously force useless parents to speak their mother tongue to their kids; otherwise they would be funding private lessons for 1 or 2 years, after primary school, for their kid(s) to learn a local language before being able to progress to secondary school. By force, by force, we go remove that colomentality. Look at P-Square and go check their children's names. Serious colomentality. 1 Like |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by miketayo(m): 11:14am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Samantha123: so you mean if my child in SW is taught in Yoruba from Primary 1-3 and i get transferred to the north where they teach in Hausa, does it mean my child after learning in Yoruba from birth will start afresh from primary 1 in Hausa? because clearly, the child doesn't understand Hausa how does that make sense? |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:15am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Cantonese: When you get sense, you will get sense to know biology, chemistry, physics, law, geophysics and Python are not taught in primary schools. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:21am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Samantha123: You are mistaken, Poplap. This policy is not about teaching local languages in schools. It is about using local languages as the tool of instructions in primary schools. They already and will continue teaching foreign languages, but English will not be the tool on instructions, the area's local language will be. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:25am On Dec 01, 2022 |
yemmit90: Continue talking nonsense. Do you "perfectly" speak your mother tongue? Scandinavian people are taught in school, their whole lives, with their mother tongue from early life, they are far better than you in speaking English and have a better future than you have. You can't compete with them. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by einsteine(m): 11:28am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Stupid policy. What is the dominant mother tongue in the community? Akoko Edo LGA in Edo state, just one local government, has 7 languages. Do the same for communities all over Nigeria and you are running into over 150 languages and dialects. Then several years later, these pupils will not be able to understand a global language like English, leading to poor competitiveness in the global marketplace. The Chinese are paying huge sums to learn English and here is Nigeria wanting to destroy a good advantage by making a nonsense policy that is not backed by any research. People can learn their mother tongue at home. Get them started with global languages the moment they start formal education. In addition, make French compulsory as well given that we are enveloped by French speaking countries. All this faux patriotism will not help anyone. Well, what kind of educational policies do you expect with an Adamu Adamu as Minister? 1 Like |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by einsteine(m): 11:30am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Sagamite: How many languages are in Scandinavia? You guys talk rubbish without considering the peculiarities of your country. Edo state alone has close to 20 languages. If you were typing your missives in your mother tongue, would I be able to have a discussion with you? 1 Like |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:31am On Dec 01, 2022 |
fkj950ax: Resistance to change and continued excuse for colomentality. It is not rocket science and will not take eternity to produce/translate books to local languages for primary schools. Reading and writing in a local language for primary school students would not be quantum physics effort. Teachers will have to now speak local languages AND English to be employed. Good! All those whose parents refused to teach them any local language cannot be teachers. Find another profession. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nobody: 11:34am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Oh! I see.. well, good luck.. Sagamite: |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by einsteine(m): 11:34am On Dec 01, 2022 |
blaise26abj: Your last line is a lie. I was born in a South West town and it is written in my birth certificate but I will never be accepted there no matter how fluent I am in Yoruba. That's Nigeria. Also, Yoruba language didn't need to be compulsory before I became fluent in it. The problem with Nigeria is the reliance on orders and compulsions for their policies. An Igbo family in Bariga will find that their children can speak Yoruba and Pidgin without needing any formal instruction. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:36am On Dec 01, 2022 |
einsteine: What a fooolish statement! What is the relevance of how many languages are in Scandinavia? What "discussions" will primary school students be having beyond their primary school friends? They would be going for state conferences for discussions? In your thick head you think because they say the language of instruction will be in a local language that means English will not be taught at primary schools? |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:38am On Dec 01, 2022 |
colestephan86: God punish them!!! |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by einsteine(m): 11:39am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Sagamite: The flaw here is that you think fluency in a language can only be achieved by compulsion when it is clear that children assimilate languages without even trying. You don't need to make Yoruba compulsory for a child growing up in Akure to understand it. There is also no indication whatsoever that teaching a child in Yoruba would make the child get better basic education. Also, Nigeria is a multilingual country, something which is lost on many people. In my mother's local government, there are over 7 languages. A common language has to be the language of instruction to ensure uniformity. Nigeria is not Sweden with one language that has years of linguistic development behind it. The policy is hinged on the usual faux patriotism. English is a global language and the earlier Nigerians start learning it the better. China, with its technological might, values ESL (English as a second language) teachers as much as engineers. 1 Like |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:40am On Dec 01, 2022 |
omolasho: The Scandinavian kids taught like that did not find it complicated. I am sure it can be complicated for Baboon kids sha. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by einsteine(m): 11:44am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Sagamite: You have a well known propensity for being stupid but i will oblige you. So you think if English is the language of instruction means that your "mother tongue" will not be taught in primary schools? You are having this discussion in English, why not resort to your mother tongue? Starting children in local languages would affect them later in academic life. We see a lot of Nigerian politicians engaging in code switching and other forms of poor communication when speaking and one big reason for this is their early training in their mother tongue. The world is global now and this faux patriotism or "Proud Nigerian" nonsense is not going to help you. One would have expected you to have a Yoruba username given that you are so overjoyed with your "mother tongue". 1 Like |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:47am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Bobbiee: Lagos - Majorly Yoruba Abuja - Majorly Gwari or Hausa Port Harcourt - Majorly Ijaw or Ikwerre That should not stop some school proprietors setting up primary schools with focus on other languages, or state governments organising inserting some schools with focus on other languages where there is a high concentration of people that speak that local area. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:48am On Dec 01, 2022 |
einsteine: You are a moooronic cretiin! What stuupid questions are these? Are these the answers to the questions you were asked? I will ask your dumbass again: What is the relevance of how many languages are in Scandinavia? What "discussions" will primary school students be having beyond their primary school friends? They would be going for state conferences for discussions? In your thick head you think because they say the language of instruction will be in a local language that means English will not be taught at primary schools? I will comeback to the rest of your stupidity when you answer. Your roasting just began, Suya! |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Nobody: 11:51am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Ohh! I now get it. Someone just gave me clarity that the policy is about using the native languages as a tool of instruction in schools rather than teaching them as subjects. Wow! Interesting.. Meaning that the kids are going to learn their mathematics, biology, other subjects in your native languages. The best thing to do if you get transferred to another part of the country is to transfer your child to a boarding school in the area, or leave him or her with a family member, you'll then come and fetch him or her after he or she completes primary 3. miketayo: |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Legitdimple(f): 11:52am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Most schools in rural areas have always taught mother tongue,just that it’s legalized now. Besides it makes it easier for kids to understand what they are being taught. 1 Like |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:52am On Dec 01, 2022 |
cocolacec: "It will affect their education and progress". "You have to speak English to be able to progress". Awon asinwin! That is the major economy in Europe. |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by oluwaseun89333: 11:52am On Dec 01, 2022 |
If true, might be the best news I've read yet on NL this year....If true, might be the best news I've read yet on NL this year....... |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:53am On Dec 01, 2022 |
Judolisco: Useless parents! |
Re: FG Approves Mother Tongue As A Compulsory Language In Primary Schools by Sagamite(m): 11:53am On Dec 01, 2022 |
seunayantokun: Well said! |
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