Publications
Publication details [#50239]
Banjo, Ayo. 1993. An endonormative model for the teaching of the English language in Nigeria. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 3 (2) : 261–275. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper discusses the development of Nigerian English and its varieties. It then argues that only one variety of Nigerian English satisfactorily meets the criteria of an endonormative model, requiring local acceptibility and international intelligibility.