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Item A SOCIO-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF KINSHIP TERMS IN ENGLISH, IGBO AND YORUBA LANGUAGES(Department of History & international Studies, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 2014) Nwosu, Florence ChikaThis study carries out a socio-semantic analysis of kinship terms in English, Igbo and Yoruba. The English language is an Indo-European language of West Germanic language family (Comrie 1987, p.68). Igbo/Yoruba languages belong to Kwa language sub-family under Niger-Kordofanian language family (Ibid: 961-970). It is erroneously believed that English language is richer in kinship terms than Igbo and Yoruba languages. This paper argues on the contrary that though English is widely spoken among the Igbos and the Yorubas, their languages also have equivalents of English kinship terms and beyond but cultural and social milieu did not permit the usages of the kinship terms. This study is descriptive. The paper adopts a comparative approach in the analysis of the data for the study in order to find out the areas of convergence and divergence in kinship terms in English, Igbo and Yoruba languages. The methods of data collection include the English kinship terms lifted from available reading materials, radio and television, oral interviews conducted with the elderly native speakers of Yoruba and personal observations of the present researchers as native speakers of Igbo, one of the languages under study. The result of the study shows that none of the languages is proficient than the other in the use of kinship terms. This paper concludes that kinship terms in English are hardly synonymous with those of Igbo and Yoruba because of differences in the cultural and family systems between Igbo, Yoruba and English.Item Teaching and Learning of Igbo Language with Modern Technology in the 20th Century: A Case Study of Adesoye College(Ebonyi Journal of Literary Studies, 2018-04) Nwosu, Florence ChikaThis paper investigated the significance of modern technology in the teaching and learning of Igbo language in the 21st Century. Data was gathered from the Igbo language teacher and Igbo learners from Adesoye College, Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria. A questionnaire was administered and interview conducted among Igbo language teacher and students of the school to elicit their responses on the need to use modern technology in teaching and learning Igbo language. Since the number of Igbo language learners in the school were not much, all the JSS 1 – 3 and SS 1 – 3 students were used for the elicitation of the data for the study by the use of questionnaires. The data for the study was analysed using simple statistical method. Precisely, TAM model was employed for the analysis. Correlation and percentages were used to find simple relationship among the variables. From the study, it was found that modern technology has a tremendous impact in enhancing and motivating teaching and learning of Igbo language and should be encouraged. Keywords: Teaching and learning Igbo language, modern technology, Adesoye College