ADEGBITE Psycholinguistics

In the early 90s or so, the National Universities Commission caused Nigerian Universities to review their curricula in line with what it referred to as the Minimum Standards. In relation to language programmes, a number of linguistics courses were recommended for language departments. They included among others, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics which were not found in many universities English language programmes. The introduction of these courses in the departments of English motivated the need to design new courses with content reflecting issues that are of significance to the Nigerian environment. One major outcome of this development also has been for teachers to write textbooks to cater for the needs of the Nigerian students.