ABSTRACT The study postulates three varieties of English perfomance in the writings of Nigerians, and examines these in detail for thier "common core" features and their "indexical markers".
FESTAC 1977 and indeed, the entire gamut of Pan-Africanism or Negritude stem from the experience of slave trade, slavery and colonialism. Apter’s book could be viewed from the historiographical tradition of a-historical Africa (Afro-pessimism) that re-affirms the influential notion of a dark continent bereft of a history except the activities of the Europeans, civilizing mission of colonial rule and the failure of the post-colonial state.
ABSTRACT Annotated Translation of Al-Madkhal fi ilmil fara'id
ABSTRACT Duration, the length of time used in speech production, is a significant phonetic stress-related criterion for determining rhythm, which is crucial for intelligibility in Standard British English (SBE). Some phonological studies on Yoruba, Hausa and Isoko Englishes claimed that these sub-varieties of Nigerian English (NE) tilt towards syllable-timing due to the absence of vowel reduction. Nevertheless, existing phonological studies on Educated Edo English (EEE) – a sub-variety of ...
Abstract Language contact among Akokoid, Yoruboid and Edoid has resulted in extensive borrowing from Yoruboid and Edoid to Akokoid. Thus, the speech forms subsumed under Akokoid exhibit lexical items which are similar to Yoruboid and Edoid. To the best of our knowledge, no other scholarly work has addressed the concept ‘lexical variation in these speech forms, hence, the need for this present effort. Twenty lexical items were carefully selected for analysis in this paper. Data were elicite...
ABSTRACT Development interventions are aimed at promoting positive change, but they can equally have negative impact, especially in conflict-prone contexts. Whereas existing studies on Odi and the Niger Delta at large mainly focused on the history, environment, culture, conflict and security situations, the peace and conflict impact of Nigerian government‘s socio-economic interventions in the area have not been fully explored. This study, therefore, assessed the Niger Delta Development Com...
ABSTRACT The major problem investigated in this study is the difficulties Senior High School year 2 students of Nkawkaw Senior High School encounter in the use of concord in English. The purpose of the study was to identify this concord learning challenges, find out why those challenges exist and find appropriate ways to help the students. The instruments used to collect data were observation, questionnaire and tests. A total of 50 students were randomly selected to take part in the study. F...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the problems of clause subordination among students of Opoku Ware Senior High School in the Kumasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The study specifically investigated some prevalent errors and mistakes committed by students and the source(s) of problems for the errors and mistakes. To address the objectives of the study, the descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. One hundred and two (102) participants were selected ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the type of communicative strategies usedby tutors and students, its importance and effects. The case study design was employed in this study. The study population comprised tutors of English Language and students from selected Colleges of Education in the Bono and Ahafo Regions of Ghana. Purposive sampling technique was adopted by the researcher to select three (3) tutors of English and five hundred (500) students for the study.A qualita...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the factors that affect motivation and job satisfaction among teachers in basic schools in Ghana by taking Wenchi Municipal as a case study. The design used for the investigation was the descriptive survey. The total sample of 72 teachers out of a population of 144 were used to respond to questionnaire which was the instrument used for data collection. Stratified random sampling was used to select schools and respondents. Percentages and means ...
ABSTRACT Christianity, from inception, has been a missionary religion. The Acts of the Apostles and Pauline letters are replete with Paul‘s missionary activities and their contributions to contemporary churches. Many scholars have examined Paul‘s missionary journeys and strategies, but adequate attention has not been given to the connection between these strategies and those of the Lagos Metropolitan Areas of The Apostolic Church, Nigeria (LMATACN) which is a missionary organisation. Thi...
ABSTRACT This thesis explored the types and functions of discourse markers used in the lecture delivery of lecturers of Kumasi Technical University. Data were recorded from 10 Communication Skills lecturers and subjected to transcription and textual analysis. The analysis was based on Chaudron and Richards’ (1986) classification and function of discourse markers which was supported by Flowerdew and Richards (1985) that grouped discourse markers into three major types with different functio...
ABSTRACT This thesis explores the syntactic and semantic properties of some Akan verbs: cut, contact by impact, change of state and perception verbs in the context of argument structure and their transitivity. The main objective of the study is to identify and discuss the various semantic classes of these verbs and explore their semantic and syntactic properties. These properties are used as the criteria for identifying the verbs. The verbs have semantic restrictions on their subjec...
ABSTRACT The teaching profession is one of the most stressful jobs. Researchers have established that stress influences commitment negatively. In other cases, others have found that commitment serves as a buffer to stress. These studies on teacher commitment were mostly quantitatively driven, and few were situated in Ghana. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between teacher stress and commitment in the Fanteakwa District. The study further looked into how teac...
ABSTRact Nonviolent resistance action has become a strong force against foreign rule, oppressive government, injustice, bad government policies and illegitimate regimes. It is in this regard that this work set out to address this issue by attempting some moral justifications for nonviolent resistance action. This work subjected the conceptions of nonviolence by some scholars to critical evaluations and conceptual analyses. These scholars include David Henry Thoreau who linked civil disobedien...