ABSTRACT The hypertext, a relatively new digital genre, structures texts into links and nodes. This results in textual plasticity which gives room for different forms of stylistic experimentations by the authors of the texts. While scholars have focused on the structural composition and general nature of hypertexts, they have not adequately attended to their distinctive features. This study addresses this neglect by examining the style of the language of hyperfiction. The study adopts Hallida...
ABSTRACT Although the concept of participatory development communication is decades old, many years of autocratic military rule has robbed African scholars and media practitioners of the context needed to explore the full participatory potentials of the media. With eight years of democracy and heavy development burdens, Nigeria is ripe for assessment with regard to the role of its media in engendering participatory development. From a small-scale study, this paper discovers that while radio s...
ABSTRACT Globally it has been established that human resource (HR) practices are associated with human resource (HR) performance. The application of the HR practices appears to be effective when applied in the decentralized context where employees‟ accountability is effectively enhanced. It is in the same perspective that during the 1990s Tanzania adopted decentralization by devolution in which the HR practices are applied at a facility level to enhance the HR performance. Nevertheless, li...
Abstract The herder-farmer communities in virtually every part of Africa are characterized by infrequent clashes which at times result not only in loss of lives but also in hostility that remains unnoticed and therefore unresolved. This paper reports the findings of the study undertaken to determine the teacher motivation to deliver moral and peace education to the students in the schools located in the areas with the frequently conflicting herder-farmer communities. The study was guided by ...
Literature on political economy of decentralization underscores the importance of intergovernmental transfers as a vehicle for achieving national social, economic and political policy goals when administrative and financial powers are devolved to lower levels of government. Decentralization left without considering the capacity of authorities to raise enough resources and address needs, will enhance inequity in services consumed and development pursued.
ABSTRACT This study explored the strategies that primary school English teachers in Rorya District apply in enhancing the learning of English language among the pupils. The study was motivated by the fact that the District has different ethnic community languages; thus, teachers of English teach pupils with diverse linguistic backgrounds. In specific, the study identifies the strategies used by teachers to enhance learning of English and the effectiveness of the strategies used. Also, to ass...
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 Nowadays, Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) store a large amount of students’ data. However, those data are not widely used to solve the academic problems of the students that are available at the HLIs such as poor performance of the students in some of the courses. Educational Data Mining (EDM) is the technology that can be applied to predict the performance of the students on the available dataset at the HLIs. This study intended to solve the problem of poor performance in Mat...
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...
ABSTRACT The study examined the contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the development of educational infrastructure of public secondary schools in Dodoma City Council. Specifically, the aims of this study included: identifying the areas of intervention and dominant strategies employed by NGOs in developing educational infrastructures in Dodoma City Council; analyzing the level of contribution of NGOs in educational infrastructure development of Dodoma City Council‟s publ...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of trade liberalization in small and medium enterprises in Tanzania. The study addressed four objectives, which were, to examine the underperformance of SMEs in Tanzania, to assess the impacts of price control in Tanzania, to assess the impacts of the fluctuation of external tariffs on the development of SMEs in Tanzania; and to propose measures to improve the performance of SMEs in Tanzania. The data were collected through direct observation as well a...
ABSTRACT In modern democracies, legislatures have numerous duties. As key states organs, they examine the legislative proposals in the process of their passage and are entrusted with overseeing executive’s responsibilities and to keep their eyes on government’s activities. Legislative committee system is the most critical structure that permits the members of legislators to divide up their labour and specialize in particular areas of activities. It is therefore the most significant legis...
Abstract The need to convey development messages in Nigeria makes it necessary to integrate indigenous and exogenous media, or non-modern and modern systems of communication. This strategy will make development messages easily accessible and comprehensible by different Nigerian publics, a mechanism for eliminating discrimination and alienation of particular communities from development messages. The paper argues that the converging indigenous, traditional and new media platforms would promote...