ABSTRACT The focus of this thesis is to offer an analysis of the syntax and semantics of phrasal verbs in Nzema, a Kwa language spoken mainly in southwestern Ghana and Ivory Coast, by about 330,000 people. This study demonstrated that the Nzema phrasal verb has two compositional elements: a verb and a postposition. It further showed through the principle of transitivity that Nzema phrasal verb can occur in intransitive, transitive and in both transitive and intransitive constructions. In add...
ABSTRACT This study examined the possible relationship between the academic performance in the Core Subjects of the 3rd and 4th year students who sat for the 2013 WASSCE in Asuom Senior High School. The design used by the researcher for the study was a comparative research design which adopted the quantitative approach to analyse the data. The test results for the performance of students in Social Studies indicated that the number of years spent by a candidate in school has an association wi...
ABSTRACT The study examines the blog posts and blogger profiles of selected top African bloggers. The study is premised on the grounds that; first, the blogosphere is one of the most suitable online spaces for the construction and exploration of identity; second, that women can use the blogosphere to explore their creativity and true identity through their writing; and third, that the identity of the woman has been veiled from time immemorial since women as writers as well as their works ha...
ABSTRACT In Ghana, plantain surpluses have to be exported, processed or go to waste. A reduction in moisture content potentially increases shelf life and hence prevents excessive post-harvest loss and that drying is an alternative to a developing country like Ghana where there is deterioration due to poor storage, weather conditions and processing facilities. To this effect this study investigated the use of ripe plantain in the preparation of ofam a typical local dish produced in Ghana. The...
ABSTRACT The study was designed to find out how basic school supervisors understand and practice their roles as instructional leaders and their knowledge and use of clinical supervision in supervising teachers. The design was a descriptive survey and data was collected using quantitative and qualitative methods. The sample comprised126 participants and 111 of them comprising 83 teachers, 22 headteachers and 5 circuit supervisors and 1 head of inspectorate returned their questionnaires. A fi...
ABSTRACT The major problem investigated in this study is the difficulties senior high school two students of Islamic and Wa senior high schools encounter in the use of concord in English grammar. The purpose of the study was to identify these concord learning challenges, find out why those challenges exist and find appropriate ways to help the students. The instruments used to collect data were intervention tests. The research design included pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervent...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate how the Ghanaian print media frame or portrays female football stories in Ghana. The study was based on the Agenda Setting, Framing and Feminist theories. The study used qualitative method for the data collection and analysis. Two sports newspapers, the Graphic Sports and the Finder Sports, were selected and content analysed for the study. The study showed that the Ghanaian print media often portrayed female footballers and coaches as mentally weak ...
ABSTRACT The study is on human rights violations in Ghanaian schools and was conducted at Kwahu Tafo Islamic basic school in the eastern region of Ghana. This study sought to find out the types of human rights violations in schools, the causes and effects on students’ academic performance and how to seek redress when they are abused. The method of data collection included observation, the use of self-administered questionnaire for twenty-five (25) teaching and non-teaching staff and fifty ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate how the Ghanaian print media frame or portrays female football stories in Ghana. The study was based on the Agenda Setting, Framing and Feminist theories. The study used qualitative method for the data collection and analysis. Two sports newspapers, the Graphic Sports and the Finder Sports, were selected and content analysed for the study. The study showed that the Ghanaian print media often portrayed female footballers and coaches as mentally weak ...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to identify and to analyse some of the difficulties that students of French in Navrongo Senior High School face in the area of pronunciation with the sounds [ʃ] and [ʒ] at the centre attention. Research data was collected through questionnaire and test for the learners of French and an interview for the teachers of French. The analysis of the data revealed that learners face difficulties pronouncing the sounds [ʃ] and [ʒ] because of transfer difficulties from th...
ABSTRACT The activities of Ona Iwa Mimo Cherubim and Seraphim Church (OIMCandSC) in Ibadan are connected with the practices and elements of the ancient Israelite religion from which the church took its root. Existing studies have examined the activities from a liturgical point of view, but have not adequately explored how they have been contextualised. This study, therefore, investigated the adoption of selected Israelite sacred cultic practices, namely, ritual cleansing, scapegoatism and sac...
ABSTRACT Culture is central to Ahmed Yerima‟s dramaturgy, and his culture-based dramatic texts largely project the cultural values of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, namely, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo. Existing linguistic studies on Yerima‟s plays have concentrated on the use of proverbs and politeness features, ignoring an in- depth pragmatic study of their cultural contexts. This study, therefore, undertakes an investigation of culture-motivated pragmatic acts (practs) and contex...
ABSTRACT This research investigates the effect of the relationship between management and labour on the performance of staff at the New Times Corporation. The purpose of the study is to explore the existing relationship and how to enhance the relationship between management and labour. The data of the research was collected using a questionnaire which was distributed to 130 staff as sample size, in five major departments, out of a staff population of 200 as at August 2018. A number of 99 of ...
ABSTRACT Plan Ghana as a Non-Governmental Organization in search for a good structure went through re-structuring in 2011 and adopted decentralization strategy, where every Programme Unit operates as a semi-autonomous unit. Study has shown that an appropriate organizational structure is contingent upon the many factors including the environment, in which the organization conducts its business. The major objective of the study is to examine the relationship between the Plan Ghana structure an...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine student’s disciplinary problems in the Obuasi Secondary Technical School. The main objectives were to explore the sources of disciplinary problems, the impact of disciplinary problems, and the coping strategies adopted by school management in managing disciplinary. The mixed method approach or the pragmatist paradigm was used while explanatory sequential mixed method design was used as a research design. The study population was 341 student...