New Englishes: A West African Perspective Book

	Abbreviations Used in the Text
	Introduction	1
1	English in the Nigerian Environment	9
2	A Note on the English Language in Ghana	27
3	Nigeria's National Language Question: Choices and Constraints	34
4	English in Nigeria: Attitudes, Policy and Communicative Realities	57
5	You Can Never Plan the Future by the Past: Where Do We Go with English?	87
6	English as a Second Language and English Language Teaching: Retrospect and Prospect	99
7	Ineffectiveness in the Presentation of English in Nigeria: Sources and Remedies	113
8	Communicative Competence Acquisition in Infelicitous Learning Environments: The Problem with SSS English in Nigeria	130
9	Communicative Competence in English as a Second Language	153
10	Languages in the Curriculum: An Assessment of the Role of English and Other Languages in the Education Delivery Process in Nigeria	178
11	On Codifying Nigerian English: Research So Far	203
12	The Elaboration of the Functions of Nigerian Pidgin	232
13	The Phonologies of Nigerian English and Cameroon English	248
14	The English Language and Code-Mixing: A Case Study of the Phenomenon in Ibibio	269
15	Nigerian Pidgin: Problems and Prospects	284
16	Broadcasting and English	300
17	Endless Beginnings: Figures of Creation in Nigerian Literature	309
18	Literature in a Second Language: Use of English in Nigerian Fiction	325
19	National Standards and the International Corpus of English	337
20	The Cameroon Corpus Project	349
21	Whose English?	367
	Summary	381
	Address	385
	Address	387
	Address	388
	Address	390
	List of Conference Participants	393
	Bibliography	397
	Index	419