Facilitating Communication by Promoting Bilingualism Among Products of Intermarriages in Nigeria

In a survey to determine how many students on the NationalDiploma programme of the Federal College of Animal Health andProduction Technology who had parents from different languagespeakingbackgrounds, had acquired those languages and learnedEnglish in addition; and how many others acquired pidgin Englishinstead, for communication, interesting discoveries were made.Out of the 113 students that registered for Pre-National Diploma(Pre-ND), 87 had parents whose first languages were different.29 out of this number could not communicate in any of thelanguages of their parents. 101 out of the 135 students thatregistered for the National Diploma One (NDI) programme hadparents who originated from different language speakingbackgrounds but could hardly speak the languages of theirparents for lack of exposure to the codes