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Introduction : Folktales, myths, and legends are special modes of oral literature for transmission of culture, norms and values of society. In this paper, it will be of prime importance to explain briefly their conceptual meanings, and then expound their significance in helping to revive our nation from social moral decadence. Folktales : The folktale, strictly defined, is a short narrative in prose of unknown authorship which has been transmitted orally; many of these tales eventually achieve written form. The term, however, is often extended to include stories invented by a known author—such as “The Three Bears” by Robert Southey (1774–1843) and Parson Mason L. Weems’ story of George Washington and the cherry tree —which have been picked up and repeatedly narrated by word of mouth as well as in written form. Folktales are found among peoples everywhere in the world. They include myths, fables, tales of heroes and fairy tales.  Another type of folk tale, the set “joke”—that is, th...

05, 2019 A Paper Presented by Fortune Nwaiwu in the Department of English and Communication Arts, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State of Nigeria. Abstracts Many scholars claim that pidgin is a language of its own with community of speakers who pass it on from one generation to another (Hudson 2001:p.62), but this paper examines pidgins from the historical perspectives and presents a stunning fact about the linguistic status of pidgins as corrupted variety of English. With the influx of words from their lexifier language into their substrate variety, pidgins are then seen as debased and corrupted variety of the prestige language. This claim is supported by Krapp (1924) and Kurath (1928) and is validated with the imperfect second language learning hypothesis which states  that pidgins are the result of failed attempts at learning the prestige language, (see Brown and Attardo 2009:p.126). This paper is very significant in the sense that it sheds more light in the unde...

Cohesion and Coherence: A Study of two texts, One with Cohesive Markers while the other lacking Cohesive Markers. A paper presented by Fortune N. (2019). Introduction This paper seeks to analyse two texts finding out a text with cohesive markers and a text lacking cohesive markers. A text in linguistics, is any spoken or written discourse that forms a unified whole, which may be a sentence, a paragraph, or a dialogue. A text is not a grammatical unit, but rather a semantic unit of language, i.e. a unit of meaning, not of form, (Bahaziq, 2016:p112). Texture is what provides the text with unity and distinguishes it from a non-text. Therefore, it is the cohesive relation that exists between units of a text.  This paper explores cohesion and coherence with their instances to enable readers glance on how words structurally and semantically hang together to create a coherent text. We have analysed an excerpt from the opening chapter of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto to find out t...

RIVERS STATE  MINISTRY  OF  EDUCATION  COMMUNTY PRIMARY  SCHOOL AMAKU IGBODO ETCHE  RIVERS  STATE.  Our Ref… Your Ref… Date:…___________________________________ The  Registrar,  Rivers State  University,  P.M.B. 5080 Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.  Dear  sir,    A Reference  Letter  of  Mr.  Fortune  Nwaiwu  I  am  proud  to  offer  a  letter  of  reference  for  Mr.  Nwaiwu  Fortune  who  has  chosen  to  work  in  your institution.  The  applicant  is  well  known  to  me  right  from  his  birth,  and  it  happened  that  he  was  my  student. With  respect  to  his  assiduity,  Mr.  Nwaiwu  works hard,  and  is  very ...

MRS. NWAIWU JULIANA Umuezu Egbeke Etche Rivers State. June 25, 2019 To whom it may concern: I am pleased to write this letter of recommendation for Fortune Nwaiwu.  Fortune worked with me at Government Secondary School Okehi for six years. He began here and continued to serve with increasing skill in that capacity . During Fortune's service with us I spent considerable time with him, and he was very goal oriented. Fortune was always punctual, and was dedicated to his work and the job at hand. Fortune demonstrated from early in his tenure that he understood what teaching is all about. He was well organized. He was quite aware of the bottom line, and had a knack for recognizing and eliminating waste. I suppose doing well in teaching is easy if you are, as he was, efficient by nature. I would like to be very clear about why Fortune wants to leave his present job.  Fortune is available for new challenges only because of his desire to learn and grow further. I would have loved to s...

  COURSE TITLE: LANGUAGE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Topic: Criticize WAZOBIA, Guosa, Swahili and Naija options along with their merits and demerits, why did they fail and a way forward   An Assignment  By NWAIWU FORTUNE Submitted to the postgraduate school, Department of English and Communication Arts Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Remuolumeni PortHarcourt, Rivers State.  COURSE LECTURER: PROF. CHUKWUEGGU   1.0 INTRODUCTION Language is the most important element of culture. It gives people a sense of belonging, identity, and may be used as a potent instrument of integration. The number of indigenous languages spoken in Nigeria is noteworthy. These multiple languages spoken by different people from different geo-political zones in Nigeria have made Nigeria to be desperately searching for an indigenous lingua franca that can integrate the large ethnic groups in the country. But given the historical circumstances in which Nigeria is made with different ethnic gro...