2019
DOI: 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.4p.70
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Emerging Trends in English among Youths in Nigeria – An Exploratory Study

Abstract: The study explored the potential impact of emerging trends in the formal written English language of youths which hitherto is uninvestigated in South-east Nigeria. Through a random sampling process, 2000 copies of pretested and validated questionnaire written in English were administered to undergraduates at five federal universities in south-east Nigeria. In addition, print-out of a couple of group conversations on Facebook and WhatsApp and Key Person Interview (KPI) was used to supplement the questionnaire d… Show more

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“…The extremely poor performance of the study group in mechanical accuracy is an indication that learners have not totally imbibed the culture of correctness in essay writing which prohibits slang, clipping, abbreviations, heterography, concord error, lexical discordances, punctuation failure etc. The decline in MA despite intervention is not unconnected with the above-mentioned errors which were rife and bristled in their writing and which earlier studies (Harris and Dilts 2015;Abati 2016;Dozie and Ojilere, 2019) have attributed to learners' tendency to yield to social media inventions which are unhealthy, counter-productive and systematically displacing the original and correct versions of the target language. In other words, writing requires a lot of work, nay detail, and it is expected that essays be error-free and accurate.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 72%
“…The extremely poor performance of the study group in mechanical accuracy is an indication that learners have not totally imbibed the culture of correctness in essay writing which prohibits slang, clipping, abbreviations, heterography, concord error, lexical discordances, punctuation failure etc. The decline in MA despite intervention is not unconnected with the above-mentioned errors which were rife and bristled in their writing and which earlier studies (Harris and Dilts 2015;Abati 2016;Dozie and Ojilere, 2019) have attributed to learners' tendency to yield to social media inventions which are unhealthy, counter-productive and systematically displacing the original and correct versions of the target language. In other words, writing requires a lot of work, nay detail, and it is expected that essays be error-free and accurate.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 72%