| Abstract: |
The inventors of mass media gadgets have initiated means of communication that would widen man’s knowledge. Through the media the world has become a global village, in the sense that one in a part of the world easily has knowledge of what is happening in the other parts of the world. However good the media might be it is very important to be wary of its negative implications on language education of the growing African youths which include their inability to acquire fitting vocabularies and proper grammatical constructions among others. The major purpose of this study is therefore to evolve the negative impacts of the media towards language education of the African child. What type of English are the youths speaking and writing nowadays. The researcher using discussion method has been able to discover that our youths today are averse to reading serious literary materials like novels, textbooks or even consult dictionaries when reading or writing. The kids are equally antipathetic to reading short stories, poems or riddles. Rather, they all seek after different types of technological gadgets like phones, computer games etc. All these technological gadgets are good because they are there to enhance knowledge when used correctly and wisely. But it is very unfortunate that the extent of hazard they create in the lives of the youths can be very disastrous in the future, if not corrected. The researcher therefore recommends among others that the parents-teacher association (PTA) should come together and look into the matter critically, because both are partners in progress as far as a child’s training is concerned. The schools should also reawaken the habit of going to the mass media for quiz and debates in language subjects for our school children. |
EBONYI JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
