THE EFFECT OF LANGUAGE INTERFERENCE ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Before the 19th century, the study of language was made. Sir Williams Jones (1786) suggested affinity of Sanskrit and Persian with Greek, opening the study of genetic relationship between languages. With this revelation of affinity, the birth of the school of historical comparative linguistics. In the 19th century, Jacob Grimm, Rasmus Rast et al studied and established the existence of the indo-European ...
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