USING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS A MEANS OF ENHANCING LEARNERS’COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS
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This paper explores how English language could be as a means of enhancing learners’communicative skills. English language is an official language in Nigeria and it is used in virtually in all spheres in Nigerian. This effective communication will traverse in written and spoken aspects of the English language.Thereupon, communication as an integral part of the English language is seen as a process of interaction between two persons or more depending the channel of information or communication.
Based on the content of this article, the following areas were highlighted Nigeria’s background and use of the English language, English language and human development in Nigeria, communication, constraints to the use of English language for effective communication, strategies to ameliorate constraints in the use of English language among others. Recommendations and conclusion were drawn based on the issues raised and discussed hitherto.
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