Abstract
In any society, the role of language has always been a very vital and incontrovertible one. The bible made us to understand that at the beginning, there was word and the word was with God and God was the word. The world and all that we have therein were created through word. This makes one to wonder about the power in language today. At all levels in life, we make use of language to perform one operation or the other. At the level of education, there is no doubt that language is the tool that we use not minding the area of one’s study. This is why we can boldly say that language is the vehicle through which whatever we do in the world can forge ahead. With all these as our launching pad, this paper looks into the necessity and the intermingling of science and language. It examines some areas of complementarities in the two fields where effective teaching, learning, comprehension and positive application can effectively take place. Since science is the in-thing in the present world, it then becomes imperative that language will continue to sustain and promote the growth of science in the present global setting.
Highlights
The fact cannot be contested that in any society, there is the need for effective interaction as well as communication if such a society is to have a smooth running environment
With all these as our launching pad, this paper looks into the necessity and the intermingling of science and language
While language of workshop makes use of the choice of words that will illustrate things in concrete term, language of science usually takes as the focus, the conceptual framework that is characteristic of science
Summary
The fact cannot be contested that in any society, there is the need for effective interaction as well as communication if such a society is to have a smooth running environment. Effective interaction comes as a result of functional communication be it oral or written This is very necessary in both formal and informal settings since language is used to pilot the affairs of whatever will happen in any environment. This is why in anything we do, language is always the anchorman that ensures everything goes on smoothly (Bloomfield, 1933; Widdowson, 1968). For the proper sustenance of today’s science and technology, it becomes expedient to ensure a proper marriage between the two disciplines; more so when the language is the only instrument of formal communication and medium of instruction
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