ABSTRACT The study intended to examine the challenges facing Tanzanian Sign Language learners. It, specifically, focused on the examination of those challenges which Sign Language learners face while learning their language. It also focused on investigating the causes of challenges facing TSL learners. The study also aimed at finding out possible solutions towards eradication of the challenges. It was guided by the Linguistic Interdependence Theory propounded by Jim Cummins (1981). The study ...
YALIYOMO IKIRARI NA HAKI MILIKI ....................................................................................... i ITHIBATI YA MSIMAMIZI ..................................................................................... ii SHUKRANI ............................................................................................................... iii TABARUKU ............................................................................................................. iv IKISIRI ............
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find the contribution of media to both the growth and distortion of Kiswahili in Tanzania. The study was conducted in Dodoma Municipality and it employed three methods of data collection. These are interview, observation, and corpus linguistics. In structured interview questions were administered to respondents. The researcher made some observations through watching EATV and listening to Clouds FM radio to see how language is used in the named media....
ABSTRACT English language speaking and writing competence is a significant proficiency globally. However, this proficiency among ESL learners is hampered by the existence of various linguistic problems in their spoken and written language. This study investigated the magnitude of the linguistic problems existing in teacher trainees’ spoken and written language which hinder their effective communication. Also, the study intended to find out the challenges of learning the English language fa...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at assessing the trend of endangerment in the Kinga Ethnic language spoken at Makete District in Njombe Region Tanzania. The specific objectives of this study were; to evaluate intergenerational transmission of Kinga, to examine the attitude of Kinga speakers towards their own language as well as to assess the extent to which Kinga language is used in various domains. The study was guided by Language Vitality and Endangerment framework by UNESCO (2003) and emplo...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the secondary school students‟ speaking performance basing on assessing students‟ ability in speaking (competence), factors affecting speaking performance as well as teachers and parents‟ roles in building speaking performance to the secondary school students. The study was guided by three research objectives and employed only qualitative approach under the „Authentic Model‟ (AM). Data were obtained through qualitative procedures; i.e. interviews, q...
ABSTRACT This research aimed at exploring the naming system and gender construction in Safwa ethnic group. The study was conducted through the interviews and focus group discussion which provided the primary data, where by the semi structured questions were administered to the respondents who gave the required information concerning this study, and library reading which gave the experience on how other researchers have discovered in issues related to my study. The study area was Mbeya rural ...
ABSTRACT Text message also referred to as “text messaging” or “texting” have become the preferred mode of interpersonal communication among young people at the turn of the 20th century (Thurlow 2011). This study aimed at investigating the impact of SMS/text messages on the acquisition of Standard English writing in Tanzania. The general objective of this particular study was to explore the distinctive linguistic features of text messages used by university undergraduate students and ...
ABSTRACT This study has investigated the verbal politeness and impoliteness in medical practitioners-patients communication in Swahili language. The study has applied qualitative approach based on descriptive analysis. Data were collected through nonparticipantory observation. It involved preliminary survey. Politeness and impoliteness have been studied as dichotomous aspects in medical practitioners-patients communication. Politeness is referred to how face-work attempts to establish, maint...
RESUMEN DE LA TESIS La estilística como una ciencia lingüística ha evolucionado extensivamente desde la época del Romanticismo. Las escuelas de pensamiento y sus perspectivas eruditas del fenómeno han tenido la consecuencia de extender los estudios para incluir todas las obras escritas incluso los periódicos, en particular, por su difusión popular. Sin embargo, muchos de los estudios se han limitado a identificar los rasgos de la estilística gramatical de este género realizando el an...
ABSTRACT The work discusses the use of stylistic devices and other devices in presidential campaign messages in Ghana. The author selects three of the 2008 presidential campaign speeches of Prof. Atta Mills, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom and Nana Akuffo- Addo the then presidential candidates of National Democratic Congress, Conversion People’s Party, and New Patriotic Party respectively for the analysis. The analysis is grounded on Fairclough’s (1995) in Critical Discourse Analysis, claiming that ...
ABSTRACT Humour is an integral part of our daily lives, however, it is one of the least studied phenomena. This thesis, therefore, discusses humour in Akan, a Kwa language of the Niger-Congo language family spoken in Ghana. The study focused on providing an ethnographic and ethnopragmatic description of the nature of humour and how it manifests in the language. Using the Incongruity theory (c.f. Kant, Cicero, Schopenhauer), the study provides explanations on why people find certain circumstan...
ABSTRACT This study investigates language Choice in the Ɔkere speech community in the Eastern region of Ghana, Ɔkere is a Guan language belonging to the Kwa language family. The study gives a broad perspective of language contact involving two unequal languages and the linquistic outcomes. This is done in reference to language shift and language maintenance. Instruments employed for data collection were questionnaires and unstructured interviews. Data was sourced from homes, churches, schoo...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to examine the differences between diploma and degree holder secondary school English language teachers in implementing competency based language teaching in secondary schools in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed at assessing the attitudes and general knowledge towards competency based language teaching, examining the potential differences that exist between diploma and degree holder English language teachers’ delivery skills and assessing the coverag...
ABSTRACT Relationship in linguistics is very essential. There are two types of relationship in linguistics: paradigmatic and syntagmatic. Syntagmatic relations are based on the linear character of speech. They enable language to function as a means of communication. The syntagmatics of noun modifiers are therefore the relation of noun modifiers with the HN and each other. Adopting Dependency Theory from Hays (1972), we base our argument on the hypothesis that the occurrence of any modifier in...