L'ENSEIGNEMENT DU FRANÇAIS A L'AIDE DU PIDGIN NIGERIAN

The teaching of French as a foreign language can be done in Nigerian Pidgin. This task is possible through the Grammar-Translation Method since Nigerian Pidgin is a national language here. Given that many Nigerian children use pidgin as their mother-tongue, it would be possible for us to teach and learn French with it. While supporting ourselves with Noam Chomsky’s phrase structure Rules and Robert Lado’s Contrastive Analysis Theory, we were able to juxtapose sentences in the two languages to enable teaching and learning French.Some findings were made, conclusions drawn and recommendations offered. Pidgin should therefore be taught by parents at home and teachers in nursery school.