COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE SKILLS ACQUISITION FOR EFFECTIVE ENTREPRENUERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA IMPLICATION FOR SUSTAINABLE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This paper highlights the centrality of language and communication skills to all forms of human activities and interactions. It seeks to argue that the display of major entrepreneurial skills that would culminate in sustainable development is near impossible without the deployment of appropriate language skills .The communicative language skills and entrepreneurship development are examined in the light of their connectivity, essence and indispensability vis-à-vis sustainable development. To advance its purpose, the paper employs the Systemic Functional Approach to language analysis developed by Michael Halliday, which focuses on the communicative function of language. Observation and secondary data sources are the main sources of data collection. Data were subjected to descriptive and critical analyses. The paper concludes that the acquisition of appropriate knowledge and skills of communication necessary for effective operation of the entrepreneur would better equip them to achieve the goals of entrepreneurship development. It therefore recommends, among other things, that communicative language skills acquisition should be given pride of place in entrepreneurship development.