Research Activities

-    Contenu pragmatique des structures  ‘neutres’
-    Borrowing and Lexical Expansion in French
-    French Humanistic Considerations and Africa: Guide and Sartre
-    Translation and culture
-    Sources of  Errors in FLE
-    Trilingual code-switching

Research
French as a foreign Language, Socio-cultural, Socio-linguistics foundations of French Language; French Literature, African Literature in French, Method in French Literacy Criticism; Language and Philosophy, French Humanistic considerations for Africa;  Black Caribbean Literature in French, Theory of Literature, Literary Criticism; Translation, Pragmatics; Applied Linguistics, Didactics; Phonetics/Phonology

Resources               

1. Centre de Ressources
Hosted in the Department of French, this centre is established to provide opportunities to access information on France, her language and people. It is the product of a joint effort by both the French Embassy in Nigeria and the University of Ilorin.

2. Le Français dans le monde
This is an international journal targeting the professional teacher of French all over the world. Back numbers are available. Access to current numbers desirable.

3. Etudes de linguistique appliquée  
An important tool for solid research is Applied Linguistics, the journal is published by Didier Erudition, France, but the numbers available are owned by individual subscribers.