Browsing by Author "Omachonu, Gideon Sunday"

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    Compounding in Igala: Defining Criteria, Forms and Functions
    (Department of Languages and Linguistics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, 2020-01-01) Abraham, David A.; Omachonu, Gideon Sunday
    In spite of the fact that compounding is really pervasive in the world's languages and despite the huge volume of literatures on compounding in languages including African languages, a critical assessment of the extant literature on compounding in African linguistics reveals that providing satisfactory criteria for defining compound hood still requires both language specific and cross-linguistic investigations for dependable linguistic generalizations. In Igala, in particular, not much attention has been devoted to describing compounding. The present study therefore investigates compounding in Igala, a West Benue-Congo language spoken in north central Nigeria. Defining compound hood and distinguishing compound words in Igala, the study shows and favours semantic criteria above phonological and syntactic considerations. Compounding generally has been found to be a highly productive word formation process in Iglala in terms of forms and functions.http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/uiah.vl3i2.10
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    GLOBALIZATION, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND SCHOLARSHIP IN NIGERIA: CAPACITY-BUILDING IN ICT INTEGRATION IN EDUCATION FOR TEACHERS AND LEARNER
    (Department of Languages and Linguistics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, 2011-06-18) Omachonu, Gideon Sunday; Abraham, David A.
    The paper examines the relevance of globalization and ICT to scholarship in Nigeria. It argues that technological progress goes hand in hand with globalization at all levels of society. Even though globalization and ICT may not be age mates; they are “play mates ” and “bed fellows” in development issues. In other words, ICT and Globalization though two different phenomena (each with its own history and its own trajectory), are now, however, closely associated or linked by the vagaries of history and the imperatives or compelling influences of the new “consciousness industry ”. It has been observed that whereas globalization aims at unifying the world systems to put man's life at its best and makes his environment “most worth living ” for him, ICT is the pivot and the dynamo that energizes the process. The distractions and attendant bottlenecks notwithstanding, globalization and ICT have the potential to dramatically transform, reshape and turn around the ways in which people organize their lives, interact with one another and participate in issues affecting the society in the various spheres including scholarship. These twin- necessary evils, the paper asserts, have come to stay and so there is hardly anything anybody can do but to devise strategies for coping with the situation rather than merely enduring the pains. It is against this background that the paper proposes a step by step capacity-building in ICT integration in education, identifies the challenges that come with development in the "consciousness industry ” as engineered by globalization and ICT, and suggests strategies for managing or coping with the challenges.
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    TEACHING AND LEARNING LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN NIGERIA FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AND CRIME PREVENTION: THE CHALLENGING ISSUES
    (Department of Languages and Linguistics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, 2014-02-11) Omachonu, Gideon Sunday; Abraham, David A.
    descriptive survey and a review of related literature, the paper presents an assessment of the security situation in Nigeria including the causes of insecurity in the countiy. It contends that even though the place of education in security matters has hitherto been neglected, proper education as found in language and literature pedagog}' could be a potent force for combating insecurity given the right climate and disposition. -The paper recommends that.for corporate, existence and collective Jight against insecurity, Nigerians must shun ethnicity and the fear of domination; recognizing, believing and accepting the fact that as a nation, those things that bind us together are Jar more important than the issues of diversity. This way, all and sundry would see matters of national security with the required same eye-glasses.