Language, Women and Education in Nigeria

Resumen

Frankly speaking, Language helps in women’s education. Education is to teach a person how to live his life by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality of life. When someone is educated, automatically, there is the possibility of a good life but Nigerian women today, and over the last twenty years, are facing a multifaceted crisis in the matter of education. Across the continent, there are still millions of women without access to education. This article is focused on language, women and education in Nigeria. The article adopted a conceptual study method and was guided by four objectives, which sought to know how language have been of importance to women’s education, the main purpose of education, state the barriers to Nigerian women’s access to education opportunity, and education as a master key for empowering Nigerian women. The study adopts a qualitative descriptive method, and also uses the communicative competence theory propounded by Dell Hymes in 1966. The study finds out that language helps women in their education. The study also finds out that there are barriers that made women not to have access to education and that most Nigerian women were not educated which made them feel so inferior. Some recommendations were made