scholarly journals Adulteration of the Igbo Language Through Multilingualism in South-Eastern Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Virginus Onyebuchi Aruah
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Status ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
Bold Face

The study seeks to find out the linguistic adulteration of the Igbo language through a sociolinguistic process known as multilingualism. Many scholars are lamenting that the Igbo language is going into extinction just because it is losing its original linguistic structures via multilingualism. Such alteration brings to the limelight of the study in order to address these issues on Nigerian indigenous languages in general and the Igbo language in particular. A descriptive approach is used to harvest some of these language contact issues among the Igbo populace and language. A random sampling is used to ascertain the population of the five Igbo states: Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States on how communication and written aspects of the language have been dealt with negatively. Participant observation and students’ essay writing in the Igbo language are used to collate these sub-standard Igbo grammar structures. The study expounds at a length the intricacy of the proper Igbo written forms and as well as pulling the Igbo language away from the effects of multilingualism. The findings of the study prove that the different types of multilingualism abound among the Igbo language native users. They also exemplify some linguistic related issues on the bold face of multilingualism among the Igbo interlocutors and how they vary among the Igbo speech communities in Nigeria. The study also finds out the effects of multilingualism on the standard Igbo teaching. The study goes further in suggesting some quintessential solutions to recuperate the status quo of the Igbo language.

scholarly journals A Bridge to Portugal: Language and Identity in Bridgeport, CT

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Fabio Scetti
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
American English ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Status

Here I present the results of BridgePORT, an ethnographic study I carried out in 2018 within the Portuguese community of Bridgeport, CT (USA). I describe language use and representation among Portuguese speakers within the community, and I investigate the integration of these speakers into the dominant American English speech community. Through my fieldwork, I observe mixing practices in day-to-day interaction, while I also consider the evolution of the Portuguese language in light of language contact and speakers’ discourse as this relates to ideologies about the status of Portuguese within the community. My findings rely on questionnaires, participant observation of verbal interaction, and semi-structured interviews. My aim is to show how verbal practice shapes the process of identity construction and how ideas of linguistic “purity” mediate the maintenance of a link to Portugal and Portuguese identity.

Construction of Battery Swap Station for Electric Passenger Car

2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 2231-2236
Author(s):  
Rong Yi Niu ◽  
Xiao Yan Yin ◽  
Ming Yu Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Body ◽  
Battery Pack ◽  
Body Structure ◽  
Passenger Cars ◽  
Passenger Car ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Status

Basing on the status quo of the development of electric vehicle and electric vehicle’s Charging/battery swap infrastructure, Discussion and analysis is made with focus on the battery swap mode and it’s practising method of electric passenger car. According to the body structure of different types of electric passenger car and the Situation that the battery pack is equipped with, Electric passenger car are divided into two types: chassis battery type and battery rear-equipped type. Respectively, analyzed the battery swap mode for the two types of electric passenger cars; And two feasible battery swap projects are advanced , analysed and compared.Then pointed out the difficulties and problems with the construction of the battery swap station for electric passenger car; Finally, suggestions and methods to solve the problems were offered.

scholarly journals THE STATUS QUO OF TEACHER-TRAINING COURSES IN THE IRANIAN EFL CONTEXT: A FOCUS ON MODELS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (Special) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABBAS A. REZAEE ◽  
MAHSA GHANBARPOUR
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
The Status ◽  
Training Courses

Given that Teacher-Training Courses (TTC’s) have responsibility for assisting prospective teachers with building up a repertoire of technical and pedagogic knowledge, the systematically evaluation of such courses is regarded as seminal (Lynch, 2003 and Peacock, 2009). Therefore, the present study is an attempt to (a) probe into the way professional expertise is acquired by preservice Iranian EFL teachers, (b) analyze the instructional content of TTC’s currently held in Iran, with a focus on teachings on Dynamic Assessment (DA), and (c) examine preservice teachers’ and TTC trainers’ opinions about the TTC’s. To this end, 9 purposefully selected TTC’s were observed, employing participant observation, and content analyses were carried out on their syllabi. Also, 107 TTC participants filled out a questionnaire, and 14 TTC instructors were interviewed; the sampling of the TTC participants and instructors was nonprobability convenient. Results of descriptive statistics showed that accounting for 84.73% of all the instructional attempts, the craft model was the most frequently prevalent model of teacher learning. Content analyses and preservice teacher questionnaire results signified that writing skill was marginalized in all the courses, and none of them included instructions on DA in their syllabi. Open, selective, and axial coding as well as content analyses of the collected data gave rise to eight themes delineating major areas fueling the current research-practice divide in the TTC syllabi. Findings of the study provide an opportunity to examine the status quo, strengths, and weaknesses of the TTC’s. The eight identified impediments to the employment of research in pedagogy could help reach a framework for factors that might induce TTC organizers to disregard the implication of relevant research findings for the courses they run.

scholarly journals Climate Change Issues in BRICS Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Nayyer Rahman ◽  
Abdul M. Turay ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Climate Protection ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
The Status ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Government

Climate change has emerged as one of the discussions where more is discussed and very less is implemented. People wait for actions to be taken by the government or multilateral organizations but seldom do they capture the developments going on. Several initiatives have been taken by individual countries as well as countries forming groups or conglomerates to tackle the challenges of climate change. This is true for BRICS as well. BRICS countries share the idea of climate protection but are sceptical of the policies passed by developed countries. BRICS as a forum of developing countries challenging the status quo of climate change policies has emerged to formulate its own climate change policies and initiatives in the light of BRICS discussions. The present study is aimed to capture the BRICS climate change policies and initiatives with a descriptive approach.

Changing Versus Protecting the Status Quo: Why Men and Women Engage in Different Types of Action on Behalf of Women

Sex Roles ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 505-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena R. M. Radke ◽  
Matthew J. Hornsey ◽  
Fiona Kate Barlow
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals The Status quo of the Application of the Jordanian Universities to Electronic Management from the Point of View of the Faculty Members

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Maram Fuad Abu Al-Nadi
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Management Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Standard Deviations ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
The University

The purpose of this study is to know the status quo of the application of the Jordanian universities to E-Management from the viewpoint of the faculty members. The study used the descriptive approach by which a resolution of 28 paragraphs has been developed, and the truthfulness and consistency of the tool was validated, its sample of the faculty members was formed in Jordanian universities represented at the University of Jordan, Yarmouk University, and Mu'tah University, a number of 300 persons has been selected randomly. The study concluded the following results: The results of mean averages and standard deviations have shown that status quo of the application of E-Management by Jordanian universities from the viewpoint of faculty members is moderate. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (= 0.05 α) in the study sample estimates in the fact that the Jordanian universities applied E-Management from the viewpoint of the faculty members due to the gender variable and found statistically significant differences at the level of significance (= 0.05 α) due to the variable of the college and for the benefit of the scientific faculties, for the benefit of Assistant professor. The study recommended that Jordanian universities should publish an E-Management culture within university units by introducing departments to implement and apply E-Management at the university.

Who Can Be a Minister?

2019 ◽  
pp. 90-107
Author(s):  
Claire Annesley ◽  
Karen Beckwith ◽  
Susan Franceschet
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Personal Network ◽  
Objective Criterion ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Status ◽  
Informal Rules

Chapter 4 focuses on the formal and informal rules that determine who is eligible and qualified for inclusion in cabinets (ministrables). Emphasizing that cabinets are formed as teams, the chapter identifies three different types of qualifications that cabinets as collectivities must include: qualifications involving experiential criteria (political experience and policy expertise), affiliational criteria (membership in a selector’s personal network of friendship, trust, and loyalty), and representational criteria (membership in a relevant political, territorial, or social group). The chapter also challenges the concept of “merit” as a qualifying criterion for cabinet appointment, identifying merit claims as a political strategy to defend the status quo, rather than an objective criterion.

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