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African Journal of Business Management, Nov 7, 2012
The term globalization captures the attention of everyone and especially economic development res... more The term globalization captures the attention of everyone and especially economic development researchers. However, despite the prior prosperity promises of globalization and the benefits of an information accessing society, the afterwards benefits have not been universal and global inequality has increased instead. Some studies show that globalization has widened the gap between rich and poor countries in its relentless progression while others are unclear about its effect. Although the idea of globalization had gradually been developed since the Second World War, its impact gained momentum in the early 1990s; Africa has not been spared from the implications of this phenomenon. We used the KOF Globalization Index with a special bias on African countries. The purpose of this article is to examine the progressive position of Africa in the global economy and highlight key sustainable approaches which African countries can adopt as economic development priorities as it fits into a globalized economy. However, the losses could be higher for African countries or less depending on its approach. African governments' policies should be designed systematically so as to balance between its current low economic status, its political teething problems and the pressures to catch up and fit into the inevitable globalization trends. This would minimize the economic marginalization of Africa and increase it utilization of its raw materials and human resources.
This paper is an endeavor to contribute to the field of contrastive analysis of Mwaghavul-English... more This paper is an endeavor to contribute to the field of contrastive analysis of Mwaghavul-English languages. It compares negation in language of the two languages in
This study carried out an error analysis on written essays of forty-nine (49) third year undergra... more This study carried out an error analysis on written essays of forty-nine (49) third year undergraduate students, offering their major courses in English in the school of foreign languages, Northeast Normal University Changchun with Chinese as their mother-tongue. The instrument for data collection was a narrative essay written by each participant in class. Errors were identified and classified under eleven categories of the grammatical aspect. Six of these errors which were 5% and above were rated as most common; and these included; verb- tense, word order, preposition, punctuation, omission and spelling.
The incessant cries of the public towards senior secondary school students at the English languag... more The incessant cries of the public towards senior secondary school students at the English language certificate examination failure in the national examination (NECO) and West African senior school certificate examination (WASSCE) have been going on for the last two decades. This article focuses on the rate at which the Nigerian education standard has fallen; it keeps reflecting in the persistent failure of this group of students being the bedrock of the educational system. To further find out if literature is giving a clear picture of the situation on ground, the researchers carried out a pilot study by administering a questionnaire on 72 senior secondary school teachers of English language from Plateau and Kogi states, North-central region of Nigeria to get their opinions on the issue at stake. Students’ attitude, government’s lack of proper attention, parents’ laxity towards their children’s education and in some cases, comprising with examination malpractice in the last two decad...
African Journal of Business Management, Nov 7, 2012
The term globalization captures the attention of everyone and especially economic development res... more The term globalization captures the attention of everyone and especially economic development researchers. However, despite the prior prosperity promises of globalization and the benefits of an information accessing society, the afterwards benefits have not been universal and global inequality has increased instead. Some studies show that globalization has widened the gap between rich and poor countries in its relentless progression while others are unclear about its effect. Although the idea of globalization had gradually been developed since the Second World War, its impact gained momentum in the early 1990s; Africa has not been spared from the implications of this phenomenon. We used the KOF Globalization Index with a special bias on African countries. The purpose of this article is to examine the progressive position of Africa in the global economy and highlight key sustainable approaches which African countries can adopt as economic development priorities as it fits into a globalized economy. However, the losses could be higher for African countries or less depending on its approach. African governments' policies should be designed systematically so as to balance between its current low economic status, its political teething problems and the pressures to catch up and fit into the inevitable globalization trends. This would minimize the economic marginalization of Africa and increase it utilization of its raw materials and human resources.
This paper is an endeavor to contribute to the field of contrastive analysis of Mwaghavul-English... more This paper is an endeavor to contribute to the field of contrastive analysis of Mwaghavul-English languages. It compares negation in language of the two languages in
This study carried out an error analysis on written essays of forty-nine (49) third year undergra... more This study carried out an error analysis on written essays of forty-nine (49) third year undergraduate students, offering their major courses in English in the school of foreign languages, Northeast Normal University Changchun with Chinese as their mother-tongue. The instrument for data collection was a narrative essay written by each participant in class. Errors were identified and classified under eleven categories of the grammatical aspect. Six of these errors which were 5% and above were rated as most common; and these included; verb- tense, word order, preposition, punctuation, omission and spelling.
The incessant cries of the public towards senior secondary school students at the English languag... more The incessant cries of the public towards senior secondary school students at the English language certificate examination failure in the national examination (NECO) and West African senior school certificate examination (WASSCE) have been going on for the last two decades. This article focuses on the rate at which the Nigerian education standard has fallen; it keeps reflecting in the persistent failure of this group of students being the bedrock of the educational system. To further find out if literature is giving a clear picture of the situation on ground, the researchers carried out a pilot study by administering a questionnaire on 72 senior secondary school teachers of English language from Plateau and Kogi states, North-central region of Nigeria to get their opinions on the issue at stake. Students’ attitude, government’s lack of proper attention, parents’ laxity towards their children’s education and in some cases, comprising with examination malpractice in the last two decad...