FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND PRODUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT IN NIGERIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES.

Abstract

Language teaching has been greatly considered in Nigeria as the basic tool of national integration towards productivity and development. The reason is that language teaching is seen as a great investment to high quality and competent human resources needed for productivity and development. But unfortunately, language teaching in Nigeria is besetted with myriads of problems. These includes: poor funding and thus poor facilities, inadequate teachers, inadequate teaching aids (projectors, computers, laboratories and libraries) etc. In this paper, we attempt to discuss the concept of language teaching and productivity in Nigeria. The paper examines French language teaching in Nigeria and the problem facing the language, bearing in mind the level of government’s input to enhance its productivity. The study take a panoramic view of some of the factors bedeviling French Language teaching productivity in Nigeria and suggests a possible ways of improving on the level of its present output.