ABSTRACT Whatever the area of specialization, we need to acquire proficiency in English to function. When we examine the goals of English language teaching in Ghana, it is clear that English is taught to enable us to use the language to communicate effectively. We need English to pursue studies in other subjects, for further studies, for employment, for social, recreational and administrative purposes. Since English is not our native language, its use as a medium of communication in our scho...
ABSTRACT The practice of reading and using food labelling information in purchasing pre-packaged food is very important. Unfortunately, in most communities in Ghana, people are not used to reading pre-packaged food labels. The study aimed at creating awareness of prepackaged food labelling among consumers. The objectives of the study were to determine awareness level of consumers of pre-packaged food labelling information; identify the effect of the food labelling information in purchas...
ABSTRACT The complexities and technicalities in the usage of the nominal group has been a matter of concern to English users especially in countries that have adopted English as their official language. In such countries English is only taught in school but students generally speak their native language and seldom speak the English language. The situation is no different in Ghana where students will generally use their native language as medium of communication and only use the English lang...
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship education integration in TVET has been identified as the key to solving the unemployment among the youth in any nation. In this regard, the study was conducted to assess the integration of entrepreneurial skills in vocational education as a strategic approach for achieving youth employment in Ghana using Kumasi Metropolis as a case study. The descriptive survey method was employed in this study. A total of 50 respondents consisting of teaching and non-teaching ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated factors that affect teachers work commitment in junior high schools at Ejisu. The study employed a mixed method research approach involving questionnaire and interviews. The sample size for the study was 89 teachers at Ejisu, out of which 84 were randomly selected to respond to questionnaire, while five of them were interviewed. Out of the 84 teachers, 75 of them, representing a response rate of 89.3%, completed and returned the questionnaire. The study emplo...
ABSTRACT The overall performance of senior high schools in Ghana has been of grave concern to all stakeholders in education. Several reasons for this downward trend have been proffered but perhaps without getting to the bottom of the problem. Poor student achievement in the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in most schools, is experienced every year. The purpose of the study was to examine and explore the instructional leadership roles of the senior high school ...
ABSTRACT This dissertation is a pragmatic study of the linguistic and literary deviations in Kourouma‟s novels, with special emphasis on Allah n’est pas obligé, his picaresque novel in which he makes an original use of the French language giving it a special local coloration and twist. It takes into account the historical, linguistic and cultural, sociopolitical contexts, and the peculiarity of the author‟s utterance and statement regarding the real social vices bedeviling the Africa...
ABSTRACT The term, washback or backwash is used in Applied Linguistics to refer to the influence high-stakes tests have on teaching and learning of second/foreign language. The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) English language tests administered by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) are high-stakes tests which have very important consequences for the junior and senior high school leavers respectively....
ABSTRACT This thesis seeks to identify the narrators and narrative skills the two writers, Ferdinand Oyono and Mongo Beti used in their books, Une vie de boy and Pauvre Christ de Bomba respectively, to achieve their objectives. Naïve narrators recount events plainly as they unfold not being conscious of the effect of what they say and are hence used by writers to achieve their objectives of informing and educating their readers. Matured, they would be careful with the narration of events of ...
ABSTRACT The study set out to examine the credit risk management practices of the Amantin and Kasei Community Bank Limited. A mix of qualitative and quantitative research approaches was adopted in a cross-sectional research design. The General Manager, as well as the 15 loan officers for all the loan schemes, the Internal Auditors, Head of Operations and Accounts Department staff were purposively sampled for the study because of their direct involvement in credit management. Primary data on t...
ABSTRACT The works of Aristophanes have caused some modern writers to refer to Euripides as a misogynist and, at the same time, Aristophanes has not been taken seriously when it comes to the presentation of women in a misogynistic or feministic perspective because he is a comic writer. Due to this, scholars have refused to put these two writers on the same platform to see the underlining intentions of their presentations. Even though Aristophanes’ works are comedies and every depiction cann...
ABSTRACT The need to do business ethically connot be understated. Besides, managing ethics in business is an uphill task. It for this reasonthat this study was conducted to confirm how ethics is managed in the operations of the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira Teachers’ Cooperative Credit Union. Participants of the study comprised 14 staff of the Cooperative and 350 members. Staffs of the union were selected purposefully and contributors were selected through the simple random sampling method. A...
ABSTRACT The importance of hotels as central in the development of tourism cannot be underestimated - because they serve as the home base of the tourist (Fridgen, 1991) and also contribute to about 30 percent of the tourist's budget (Lundgren, 1973). This study investigates the causes of low patronage of hotels in the region. The survey covered a sample of 135 guests in 18 hotels and 18 hoteliers or their representatives. Descriptive as well as inferential statistics including the muIticriter...
ABSTRACT Existing studies on Ịzọn language have concentrated on unilingual application of traditional grammar in constructing well-formed sentences, thereby neglecting critical descriptions of the ways morphosyntactic features ensure the derivation of convergent structures. A contrastive examination of English, (a standard for universal grammar analysis) and Ịzọn languages can properly characterise these syntactically significant features. This work, therefore, investigates the morph...
ABSTRACT One unique characteristic feature of the Yoruba language, spoken in South Western Nigeria is that when words are borrowed into it from other languages, such words are nativised. Some scholars have discussed the rules that apply in such cases. However, this kind of study has not been extended to Arabic names borne by Yoruba people (to the best of my knowledge). This paper therefore discusses the rules that apply on some of these names. Thirty Arabic names are purposively selected for ...