A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF SPELLING AND SOUND IN ENGLISH AND IGBO LANGUAGES

📄 Project Abstract

The nature, structure, conventions and inconsistencies inherent in spelling and sound in English create problems for Igbo spellers of English as a second language. It is this singular factor and how to reduce its effect to the barest minimum that gave rise to this research. Generally, language serves the basic function of communication. But the status and the extent of use a language is put determines its function in a geographical setting. English is the world's most widely used language. It has three main categories of use. The first is the use of English as a native language or mother tongue; the second is the use of English as a second language and the third is the use of same as an official language. English is used in a second language situation in countries of such divergent background as Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Uganda, and Kenya etc owning to their colonization by the imperialists. The language is highly regarded in these countries because it is viewed as the grea...