Private educators examine new teaching methods

Changing teaching approach and making learning experience for Nigerian child more rewarding and enjoyable formed the crux of the summit attended by captains of industries and educations take holders at the yearly conference of the Association of Private Educators in Nigeria (APEN) recently.

Being the fourth in the series with the theme “Equipping Schools to Sustain Change”, the conference also addressed the need to reinstate core societal values in Nigerian schools. Held at Archbishop Vining Memorial Church, Ikeja, Lagos, the three-day symposium, featured different segments the best strategies that could be adopted to ensure that Nigerian schools remain globally relevant.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Chairman, APEN Boardof Trustees, Dr. Olufemi Ogunsanya, said APEN, through the various themes addressed over the years, would continue to ensure that Nigerian schools remain the cutting edge in leading the way for education.

“It is our hope to inflict change and raise people who will not compromise the core values in our system. Every aspect of embracing and sustaining in our classrooms is our main concern. Professionalism in teaching requires intra and inter-school collaboration as tools for raising the bar of performance and achievement in our respective schools”.

“Through our intense discourse in this forum, we will be able to pave our way in moulding the future of the Nigerian child through in sightful education. Over the years, we have erased the old cultural way of teaching and introduced the global trend of partnership and sharing of experiences between teachers/pupils.

“Our aim is to address key issues as regards the best way of transferring knowledge to the Nigerian child”, she said.

Lyudmyla Polyanska (group# 311)

Private educators examine new teaching methods

1. We can observe that French and Latin borrowings predominate in the analysed text.

The native words:

· English proper: child, learn, take, need, teach, tool.

· Indo-European words: new.

· Germanic words: hope, sightful, old, partnership.

Borrowings:

· French: approach, experience, form, summit, captain, education, equip, value, trustee, compromise, embrace, require, collaboration, pave, mould.

· Latin: crux, industry, conference, series, school, address, segment, ceremony, various, aspect, sustain, concern, discourse, future.

· Greek: theme, symposium, strategy, church, system, professionalism, forum.

· Scandinavian: edge, raise.

2. In this text there are no informal words (colloquial words, slang, dialect), but we can find a great number of stylistically neutral words, terms and bookish words.

Stylistically neutral words: child, captain, series, theme, school, need, church, edge, hope, people, old, cultural.

Stylistically marked words:

· terms: approach, industry, strategy, segment, symposium, system, partnership.

· bookish (literary) words: crux, summit, attend, conference.

3. Most of the words used in the text are non-motivated (making, child, form, theme…)

But there are also grammatically motivated words:

· holder (-er denotes the agent of the action),

· reinstate (re- denotes repetition of the action)

· intra-school, inter-school (intra-, inter- denote type, space and degree of relations)

4. In this text we can find both monosemantic and polysemantic words.

Monosemantic words: teach, education, conference, relevant.

Polysemantic words: change, approach, make, child, adopt.

5. Synonyms (ideographic):

· conference, symposium, forum

· different, various

· continue, remain

· take, adopt, embrace

· mould, form

· transferring, changing

· require, need.

Antonyms:

· remain – continue

Lexico-semantic field: teaching, learning, education, educator, school, classroom, professionalism, experience, knowledge.

6. According to the morphological structure of the words, we can find in the text such types of words:

· root words: child, crux, series, theme, school, change, need, core, value, church, new, main, able, old, aim, be, pave, have, say

· derived words:

Ø words formed with the help of suffixes: educator, changing, education, holder, conference, Nigerian, enjoyable, attended, societal, various, cutting, respective, sightful, examine

Ø Words formed with the help of prefixes: intra-school, inter-school, discourse, relevant, intense, reinstate, ensure, continue, remain, inflict, require

Ø Words formed with the help of suffixes and prefixes: embracing, rewarding, compromise

· compound words: chairman, classroom, partnership, three-day

· shortenings:

Ø proper: Dr.

Ø acronym: APEN

7. We can observe cases of usage of proper names in the text:

· names of people: Olufemi Ogunsanya

· geographical names: Ikeja, Lagos

· names of organizations: the Association of Private Educators in Nigeria, Archbishop Vining Memorial Church.