Nkechi Obodoeze

Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka | Unizik · Department of Modern European Languages

Foreign language/second language can serve as a veritable vehicle towards the sustenance and growth of foreign policy in the life of any nation. Foreign language helps many nations towards the direction of integration, international diplomacy, foreign relations, trade and direct foreign investments. These yardsticks can be used to measure the robus...

It would not be far from the truth to say that communication plays an important role in the search of development, be it educational, social, political, technological or any other form of development. An important role because knowledge, which is the life wire of any development is acquired only through information and information comes through com...

Abstrakt In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll Hauptmanns Rose Bernd aufgegriffen werden und vor dem Hintergrund der zeitgenössischen Diskurses im Hinblick auf die sozialen Probleme der unehelichen Schwangerschaft untersucht werden. Hauptmanns Drama ist ein klassischer Familienroman, der das Problem einer unehelichen Schwangerschaft darstellt. Mit dem Dr...

Abstrakt In diesem Artikel wurde die Unterdrückung der Frauen vom Patriarchat und die Konsequenzen für das weitere Leben der Frauen skizziert. Feminismus wird betrachtet, weil es das Ermächtigen der Frauen in der Gesellschaft ermutigt. Der betrachtete Roman zeigt, wie Frauen in vielen afrikanischen Gesellschaften unterdrückt und marginalisiert wird...

This article will take a look at the Communicative Language teaching with a particular reference to the teaching and learning of German in Nigeria. It explains the way teachers can focus the teaching of German as a foreign language (GLF) in the classroom setting in such a way that students can communicate in a spontaneous way, taking into account t...

The recent rapid developments in translation theories have raised translation from its previous status of linguistic transcoding and placed it within the wider framework of communication. Translation has become a means of intercultural communication, transporting one culture to another. In order to facilitate this cross-cultural communication, adeq...

Language is a means of communication. Language learning opens the door for interaction between people and nations. The learning of a foreign language is faced with many errors especially for a learner of a new language. A learner of a new language consciously or unconsciously transfers structural patterns of an already acquired language(s) into the...

This paper examines the transfer of culture-specific items in the German translation of Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God. The focus of this study is to find out the different strategies employed in translating culture-specific items and the effect of these strategies on the (textual and stylistic) target text. The major finding that emerges from the st...

This paper dwells on apparent lack of interest in Nigeria on foreign language learning.

Education is an instrument for change. The educational sector has witnessed a huge government investment, evolution, dynamic and active participation. Since the Federal Government has adopted education as an instrument par excellence, ere is need for the Federal Government to clarify the philosophy and objectives that underlie its massive investmen...

Concept of Language Language is an important tool through which communication, information and ideas are shared and exchanged. Language has not only mystified man by the complexities of its structure, but it has preoccupied him with its capacity for communicative ability. It is not static but keeps changing, so as to meet the communicative needs an...