ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Language seems to be the vehicle for second change, social mobilization, social reconstruction and national development in a multilingual, multiethnic nation like Nigeria. Since no ethnic group in Nigeria can lay claim to English as its own, this political neutrality qualifies it as the national language that cuts across and can bring development in the economic, social and environmental life of the people of this nation. This paper pointedly exposes us to the various ways in which the English language acts as a veritable tool for sustainable development in Nigeria.