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Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract Critical pedagogical approaches such as critical literacies represent important tools for incorporating diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice into L2 teaching, an objective that is more important now than ever before. However, research has shown that implementing such practices is difficult—even for instructors who value them—due to
Julia A. Gorham
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AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2016 The paper examined derivation as one of the word formation processes in the Ọnịcha variety of Igbo. Derivation is defined in the literature as one of the productive processes of word formation. It is achieved in Ọnịcha mainly through the process of affixation. This paper studied derivation in the dialect through the processes of affixation.
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Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background There are few screening tools for intellectual disabilities that have been developed and used within Africa. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the English version of the adolescent Screener for Intelligence and Learning Disabilities (SCIL) when used with Nigerian adolescents and young people.
Eziafakaku Uchechukwu Nwokolo +4 more
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs
Tydskrif vir LetterkundeIgbo oral funeral songs are dynamic and resilient oral forms. Applying the tenets of an infracultural model of ethnopoetics to study Igbo oral funeral songs collected during fieldwork, in this article, I examine the emerging trend in most Igbo ...
Onyebuchi Nwosu
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COVID-19 and the Food Deficit Economy in Southeastern Nigeria
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021 This study examines the significant impact of the total lockdown adopted by the Nigerian government to checkmate the spread of Coronavirus in the country.
Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo +4 more
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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Ọmụmụ Asụsụ Igbo ka Ọ dị Taa n’Ụlọ Akwụkwọ dịgasị na Steeti Enugwu, Naịjirịa
, 2021 Ụmị edemedeIsiokwu nchọcha a bụ ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo ka ọ dị taa n’ụlọ akwụkwọ dịgasị na Steeti Enugwu, Naịjirịa. Ebumnobi nchọcha a bụ ile anya mara ihe a ga-eme ka ọnọdụ ọmụmụ asụsụ Igbo gbanwee n’ọtụtụ ụlọ akwụkwọ dị na Steeti ahụ, ma nwee ike ịkwụrụ chịm
Christian E. C. Ogwudile
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Igbo pre-colonial norms and values as pillars for the sustenance of post-colonial Igbo society
Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies, 2021 The thrust of this work is on engineering the pre-colonial norms and values, embedded in Ala (earth-goddess deity) to contend the contemporary moral decadency prevalent in Igboland.
Chinonso E. Agbo
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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