ABSTRACT This work seeks to find out the causes of language contact in the Gbi Dzigbe community. It is also to identify the languages that are in contact with Gbi Dzigbe Dialect of Eʋe (GDDE), and whether those languages have had any effect on the GDDE, if they have, what effects have they had the on the GDDE. Data was collected through observation and interview. The indigenous people of Gbi Dzigbe (GD) were used. The study showed that Gbi Dzi Traditional Area (GDTA) is a multilingu...
ABSTRACT Reading is one of the basic skills that a child has to master during their first school years to be able to assimilate new knowledge and skills in future. The aim of the study was to explore factors that contribute to reading difficulties among primary five learners and the challenges faced by teachers in teaching them how to read. The sample comprised sixty (60) participants drawn from the Salvation Army Primary School in Apam. The study employed the qualitative research design base...
ABSTRACT This research was aimed at discovering pronunciation errors Chinese EFL learners commit. To do this, a qualitative study was conducted on the pronunciation errors of 10 undergraduate freshmen of Jianghan University. The data collected and used for the analysis comprised those gathered through interview, reading exercise, and observation. Errors related to segmental and suprasegmental features were identified. They include consonantal and vowel errors in addition to stress, intonati...
ABSTRACT This research work looked into the influences of L1 (Akan and Ewe) on L2 in students’ communication in English, the effects of the influences and the possible solutions to these influences in Presbyterian Senior High School, Akim Begoro. It discussed related works on the topic. The qualitative approach was used and the design adopted was case study. Observation, interview and written test were the instruments employed to collect the data from a purposive sampled participants. The s...
ABSTRACT The study analyzed the concord errors committed by students of Akatsi No. 1 Junior High School. Its main objective was to find the types of concord errors they commit and the possible factors that account for the errors. Data were collected from JHS 2 and 3 students of Akatsi No. 1 Junior High School by way of questionnaire and in-class essays and analyzed. The findings revealed that the concord errors found in students’ writing were many, including subject-verb concord errors. T...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on sociolinguistic analysis of address terms in Akyem Asuboa in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It seeks to explore the various categories of address terms, identify some inappropriate address terms, explore the effects of inappropriate address terms and examine people‟s reaction towards the inappropriate use of address terms among the people of Akyem Asuboa. Qualitative method is employed for an indepth understanding of the research. Twenty (20) participants ...
ABSTRACT This work looks at some of the problems associated with reading and comprehension among students in Ndewura Jakpa Senior High Technical School. It is basically a qualitative study of reading comprehension difficulties among students at Ndewura Jakpa Senior High Technical School. It will also suggest ways of enhancing students‟ abilities in comprehension. The purpose of the study is to investigate causes of students‟ poor performance in reading and comprehension, its effect...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the writing errors of teacher trainees of Ada College of Education in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, identifies the causes of these errors and assesses the impact of these errors on teaching and learning. To help guide this study, two theoretical frameworks were adopted- the Error Analysis theory and the Input Hypothesis Model. A qualitative research approach was used and the design adopted was case study. A population sample of 35 final year teacher tra...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the reading comprehension difficulties among students of Fodoa Community Senior High School. The purpose of the study was to find out the reading comprehension difficulties these students face, the causes of these difficulties and role teachers can play in improving students’ reading and comprehension. A cross-sectional study was used. A non-probability quota sampling was used to obtain a representative sample of the population. The sample size used was thr...
ABSTRACT This study examines the ability of students of Chiana Junior High School in identifying the concept of the noun group in English sentences as well as using the noun phrases correctly in written discourse. The researcher collected data from a sample population of 90 students out of the total of 270 students in the school (Chiana Junior High school). The descriptive research design was adopted for this research. The research instruments used in collecting the data included questionna...
ABSTRACT This study is a toponomastic study of suburb names, using the Causal theory of Names as proposed by Evans (1985) and the Frame theoretical framework as proposed by Fillmore (1985). The study investigates the morphological processes, phonological processes and syntactic structure of about seventy (70) suburb names. The suburb names for this study were collected from primary source. The researcher supported the primary data with oral structured interviews to ascertain the complete stru...
ABSTRACT This study examined both teachers‟ and students‟ perceptions, and beliefs, as well as their attitude and motivation towards the teaching and learning of English grammar in Junior High Schools in the Walewale Municipality. To achieve the objectives, the mixed method approach and the convergent parallel design was applied. Questionnaire, interview, observation and focus group discussions were employed to collect data from the participants. Gardner‟s socio-educational model was us...
ABSTRACT Routine expressions have been regarded among others as specific and standardized expressions which are universal in nature and are used for cultural and socio-economic interactions in speech communities. This study examined the linguistics of routine expressions in the Anum community. Taking a cue from earlier studies (e.g. Ameka, 1987, 1994; Dzameshie, 2008, Agyekum, 2010), the study employs the ethnographic design using a qualitative approach to gather data from three different A...
ABSTRACT English continues to maintain its status as a global language. It is spoken by a third of the world’s population. However, majority of its users are non-native speakers. The concept of ELF awareness orientates a set of principles that refer to knowledge, attitudes and skillset of ELT stakeholders and ELT products. This study investigated ELF awareness among tutors of English in Colleges of Education in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Using a convergent parallel mixed method, forty-ei...
ABSTRACT Speaking English has become very important in Ghana especially because of its international and worldwide integration with time. Teaching English pronunciation is difficult for several reasons. These include the fact that teachers are left without clear cut guidelines, and face contradictory pronunciation instruction practices. Due to these issues, instruction in pronunciation has become less important and teachers are not very happy to teach pronunciation in their classrooms. This t...