LANGUAGE AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Language is very vital to human society that there is hardly any situation or human function where language is not required. It also follows that for any idea to be transformed into any development, it must be sufficiently couched in human language. This means that the ideas, knowledge, skills and attitudes required for sustaining development must be communicated to people through language. This explains that language is the facilitator of human essence. All the inventions and achievements ever recorded in human existence have their roots in language. In view of this language should be part of the inclusion of the things that will bring about development. This paper therefore, examines language as an effective tool for achieving sustainable development. To achieve this objective, efforts is made to define key terms used in the paper and the role language can play in ensuring sustainable development. The key terms include Language and Development.