PRECARITY AMONG CHINESE LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT THE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE AT NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY: STUDY OF SINGLE-PROGRAMME STUDENTS

Abstract

This article microscopes one of the two categories of the Chinese language learners at the Confucius Institute at Nnamdi Azikiwe University (CI-NAU). These students, known as HSK students, have not gone to university or any other institution of higher learning. Their counterparts, known as combined-programme students, combine their Chinese language study at the Institute with degree programme. The specific phenomenon investigated is precarity among the students in the first category who have left the Institute and are already working. The data were mostly generated from the questionnaire administered on thirty members of the category in a social media group called the Association of Foreign Language Translators of Nigeria (AFLAN). It discovered that the precarity rate notwithstanding its denial by the respondents.