Economic Resources Recipe of Arabic Language for Economic Recession in Nigeria: Language Educator's View

Abstract

Economic recession is significant decline in economic activity which spread across the economy lasting more than a few months, normally visible in a real gross domestic product (GDP), real income, employment, industrial production and wholesale retail sales. This research sets to find the view of language educators of the University of Ilorin at both faculty of Arts and Education on Arabic as a tool for combating economic recession in Nigeria. The variables considered are all the language educators. The population for this study was all the language educators at both faculty of Arts and Education which is 45. A purposivee sampling technique was used to select this number. There is only a research question, which was answered by using mean and ranking order. The instrument used for the study was a check list which comprises of 15 items.The result shows that all the items are agreed upon by respondents as their views on Arabic language as a tool for combating economic recession in Nigeria. From the result above, it could be concluded that Arabic Language is a tool for combating economic recession in Nigeria and recommended that government should encourage the teaching of Arabic Language in various institution of the nation to encourage its facilitation