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Film or movie is a product of cultural and social processes. It is usually created out of the experiences of people. Simultaneously, it also affects the experiences and actions of individuals. It plays an active role. Acting and movie production draw from existing body of knowledge; which it sometimes interprets. This body of knowledge may be language, culture or history. Moreover, film presents a social reality which is created interactively through action, characters and its other paraphernalia. Cultural studies and critical pedagogy started in the United States of America. Here, film performs the function of entertainment and education, by reflecting our society in an audio visual and dramaturgical representation. Nestler Sebastian (2006) describes film as “what comes with the potential of making complex issue easily assessable through images as well. Thus, by reflecting the society, movies advertently, and inadvertently, demonstrates the peculiar characteristics of that culture. ...

Structuralism Theory When one focuses on the term structure, what one has in mind is the outlook or appearance of an entity: one can suggest this as the physical properties or features of an entity. Thus, when  a student of language comes across the term structuralism  as a linguistic theory, he or she may take it for the analysis of a text or discourse by focusing on its composition, or  structure. In reality there is a clear boundary between the latter assertion and what structuralism is. Thus, what is structuralism?  Structuralism refers to a set of general principles shared by prominent European linguists of the inter-war period who were all deeply influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure’s Cours de linguistique generale. The father of semiotics, Ferdinand de Saussure helps to serve as a precursor to what we have now as structuralism.  Therefore, one needs to define what semiotics is so as to have a premise to what structuralism is.  Marcel Danesi (2014...

LITERATURE REVIEW AN INTRODUCTION In this aspect of the thesis a review of literatures relevant to the topic is carried out. This includes work of other scholars that contains certain aspect of the topic to provide clarity also to show the stance of different scholars.  It aims at the investigation of how the pidgin variety of the English Language, otherwise known as” brokin” has influenced the teaching and learning of the standard English Language in Nigeria. Having adopted the language as was introduced by the British as the lingua franca for over four decades, one and would have expected a thorough mastery of the language but the reverse is the case. It is quite obvious that the world has turned into a global village with the English language still gaining wide spread of usage, having other peculiar varieties: the Nigerian English, the American variety, the Pidgin English and the British to mention a few; which in themselves have other varieties. Relatively evident, is the fa...