ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of conceptual writing on the development of writing skills among English language students in selected secondary schools in Makindye Division, Kampala District Uganda. For this reason, the study specifically ascertained the effect of expository writing, assessed the significance of descriptive writing and examined the role of narrative writing on development of writing skills among such students in the same schools in the divisi...
The focus of this study was to determine the reaction of teachers to English and Yoruba as instructional languages in selected primary school in Ife Central, Osun state. The study aimed at investigating the awareness nature of teachers about National language policy on education NPE and their reaction to languages stated as instructional languages and how the languages contribute to the comprehension of teachings by pupils. The study was carried out through a questionnaire survey and parti...
Abstract Language ambiguity is a quality of language that makes a speech or written text open to multiple interpretations. This study aimed to know the challenges of English Students in Language Ambiguity and how they cope with these challenges. At the end of the study, the researchers aimed to address these challenges experienced by the participants. The participants of this study were second (2nd) year college students of Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English from Don Honorio Ven...
This study looked at politeness strategies in Gikuyu. The study identified and described the politeness strategies used by the Gikuyu in business settings. To this end, it looked at how gender and setting influence politeness strategies. The study found that Gikuyu speakers do use politeness strategies in order to save their partner’s faces. It also established that politeness strategies in Gikuyu can be accounted for using Brown and Levinson’s model of politeness. Data was collected...
New technological advancements and innovations are a challenge to languages and especially so to African languages. New terminologies referred to as neologism thus become necessary. This research looks at the morphological structures and classification of neologisms in the Gĩkǔyǔ language. The study will show how innovatively languages deal with new terms and refute the argumentation that African languages are not developed enough to cater for these concepts. The study has focused its...
Abstract Seamus Heaney's poetic development is examined through a series of close readings of selected poems from his first four volumes. The main focus of the di3sertation is on the stages through which he passes in his attempt to develop a poetic mode which is simultaneously responsive to the preoccupations of the private self and to the wider political and cultural backdrop of Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist and Door into the Dark are examined in terms of the relation between poeti...
ABSTRACT The misuse of cohesive devices has been identified as a common problem faced by students of tertiary institutions. Students find it difficult to have a coherent discourse; this may be as result of lack of knowledge of cohesive devices. This study focused on the use of cohesive devices in the writings of students of Adamu Augie College of Education, Argungu. The study also focused on some research objectives: finding out the type of cohesive devices used in students writing of na...
Abstract This research was carried to understand the impact of the Zimbabwean crisis on the intersections between ethnic and national identities. This research therefore investigates the escalation of ethno-particularism amongst some Ndebeles in the post-2000 implosion of the economic, constitutional and social crises by analyzing how media literature projected Ndebele particularism to contest issues of nationalism, citizenship and nationality in the Zimbabwean nation-state project. A histo...
ABSTRACT Zimbabwean mass media has profoundly been polarised by two significant camps, progovernment and anti-government mass media establishments. Public opinion has primarily been centered on the binary ideological inclinations of these two camps. The heavily censored political environment in Zimbabwe since the imposition of the Public Order and Security Act 11 17(POSA) resulted in political interaction and expression of personal dispositions being subverted thereby resulting in „silence...
Abstract Present day Zimbabwe though being deemed by the government as a free country embedding the concept of freedom of speech it is still plagued with massive music censorship amongst the predominant genres. Since the late 1800s music has been a major influencing player in indoctrinating people. Music is an essential tool use in public discourse to promote, affirm and subvert political hegemonies. Musicians play a pivotal role in society of exposing the injustices perpetuated by governmen...
ABSTRACT This study is an interpretive and descriptive analysis of the themes of politics and governance in contemporary Zimbabwe paying particular attention to the creative works of,Mlalazi and Baya’s TheCrocodile of Zambezi (2008) , Matsa and Baya’s Super Patriots and Morons (2003) and Chifunyise’s Waiting for the Constitution (2010). The study explores the power dynamics inherent in the insider/outsider, inclusion/exclusion, patriot/sell-out and self/nation schema and show how they...
Abstract CHAPTER ONE: ITRODUCTION Background to the Study The issue of child soldiering is one of the most controversial issues as far as the history of the world is concerned and the controversy lies in the question: “are these children aggressors they turn out to be or are they simply passive victims of circumstances?” Children have either been violently abducted or coerced into volunteering to serve as soldiers in the American Revolution, World War 1 and World War 2 and as if that’s ...
ABSTRACT This document presents the findings on the perceptions of pupils and teachers of Dumezweni Primary school on the effects of the streaming of the grade 6pupils according to their ability at Dumezweni Primary School in Khami District. The study used a combination of the qualitative and quantitative research approach. A descriptive and explanatory research design was used in this study because people sometimes fail to understand raw data. So the descriptive and the explanatory research ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the teachers’ understanding and experiences in the teaching of oral communication in English at O’ Level in Sadza Cluster in Chikomba District. The study was necessitated by the need to know the teachers’ understanding and experiences in the teaching of oral communication in English. A qualitative research design premised on phenomenology was used for it enabled the researcher to get current and on the ground information of teachers�...
Abstract This research examines the representation of multiple identities in literary texts through an analysis of Crossing the Boundary Fence by Patricia Charter (1988), To Breathe and Wait by Nancy Partridge (1986) and Ginette by Sylvia S Bond (1980). Multiple identities manifest themselves in everyday life as we know it. The question of how identity changes, at what point and with what effect, have long been overlooked. In prose writing, the author is oftentimes unaware of the voice or voi...