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Aspects of Urhobo Grammar Taught Through Poetry: The Verb “Edia” to Be
Carole Ejomafuvwe Akpofure - Okenrentie
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2016.08.010
Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria
Unquestionably, anyone born to Urhobo parents, being biologically Urhobo, should speak the Urhobo language. But does everybody born by an Urhobo parent speak Urhobo? From our observation, the answer to this question is clearly “no”. Many of the Urhobo people in the Diaspora as well as those at home have chosen to shift from their own language to other languages. Hence Urhobo language has gradually acquired the status of a second language. Therefore, its teaching would also veer away from language teaching methods that are used for first languages. Based on Noam Chomsky’s theory of Generative Grammar, aspects of the Urhobo grammar will be treated as we present specifically the verb “edia”/“to be”. As it is, it is being presented as a second language bearing in mind the great population of Urhobo people in the Diaspora as well as Mowarin’s “miguo generation” of Urhobo children back home in Urhobo land. This being so, the methods applied in this study are the Grammar Translation Method Approach as well as the Direct Method Approach. To facilitate its learning especially for the new generation of Urhobo persons, the poetic approach would also be applied.
Urhobo, grammar, verb, “edia”/“to be”, poetry
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