ABSTRACT The study sought to ascertain the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in teachers‟ Leadership for Learning within Aboabo Educational Circuit. The researcher sought to: found out whether a significant relationship existed between teachers‟ intrinsic motivation and Leadership for Learning within Aboabo Educational Circuit, establish whether correlation between teachers‟ extrinsic motivation and Leadership for Learning within Aboabo Educational Circuit is significant,...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of motivation on the job performance of teachers in the Suame Sub-metro of the Ghana Education Service in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The objectives of the study were to identify the motivational packages for Junior High School teachers in the Suame sub-metro, find the factors that motivate Junior High School teachers and to assess the perceived impact of motivation on Junior High School teachers’ performance. The study u...
ABSTRACT This research examined the forms of communication between teacher unions and their members in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Area. The study aimed at identifying the various communication media used by the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), and the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in interacting with their members. The researcher employed a qualitative in-depth interviews and a purposive sampling size to collect data from four executives ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the factors enhancing teacher motivation in public junior high schools in Suame Municipality in Ashanti Region. Specifically, the study was to determine the extent to which head teacher fairness enhance motivation of teachers, the extent to which remuneration enhance motivational level of teachers and to determine the extent to which students discipline behaviour affects the motivational level of teachers in Suame municipality. The st...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate solid waste management in theAdenta Flat Community in the Adentan Municipality. Specific objectives of the research were to:(i)describe the state of solid waste disposal in the Adenta Flat Community.(ii)examine the attitudes of the residents of Adenta Flat Community towards solid waste disposal (iii)identify the causes of poor solid waste disposal in Adenta Flat Community and(iv)examine the effects of poor solid waste management ...
ABSTRACT The study of signs in public sphere either in writing or in symbolic forms is termed as linguistic landscape. Landry and Bourhis (1997) for the first time coined and defined the notion as “the language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop signs and public signs on government buildings combines to form the linguistic landscape of a given territory, region or urban agglomeration” (p.22). The intention behind this research work i...
ABSTRACT Job satisfaction is an important indicator in predicting stability in organizations, and it is well explained by understanding motivation. The purpose of the study was to identify factors influencing job satisfaction among nurses at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital. The study was conducted among 85 nurses of whom 80 responded. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from the participants. Data was analyzed using Statisti...
ABSTRACT The future success of children depends on the household they grow up in, and parents are the first point of contact for children. Evidently, when one parent is absent, a gap is created as the child loses the support that would have emanated from both parents. Education is a great equalizer in Ghanaian society and is seen as a tool for national development. The role of parents is to support and enrich the educational processes, safety and health of their children. The interest of t...
ABSTRACT This research sought to investigate the factors that contribute to effective teaching and learning in the public senior high schools in Bantama Sub-Metro in the Kumasi Metropolis. The target population for this study comprised of all senior high school teachers in the study area. Out of 342 teachers, 118 of them were randomly selected to participate in the study. Out of this sample selected, 105 representing 89% participated in the study. The study was conducted with quantitative r...
ABSTRACT In our everyday activity, language plays a tremendous part in our daily interaction with each other. Arguing, taking position and making judgment happens daily in our interaction with one another. The need for stance expression and making the position of a speaker clear about what they are discussing is well documented in the literature (Biber, 2006; Kelly & Bazerman, 2003; Hyland, 2005; 2008; Molino, 2010; Myers, 1989; Williams, 2006). This thesis examined the stance markers used in...
ABSTRACT This comparative study assessed the knowledge of adolescent girls on cervical cancer and its prevention in Ghana using a senior high school in an urban area (Accra High School) and a senior high school in a rural area (Atiavi Senior High Technical School). The choice of the two schools was motivated by the expectation that students in these schools will differ significantly in terms of their socioeconomic backgrounds which was duly confirmed. The study determined whether socioec...
ABSTRACT This study investigated learners’ perceptions of recast in the ESL classroom of three Senior High Schools in the Mampong Municipality, Asante Region. Using a convergent parallel mixed methods design, questionnaire and focus group interview were utilized in collecting data from three hundred randomly selected students for descriptive and thematic analyses within the Process Model of L2 Motivation framework proposed by Dörnyei and Ottó (1998). The analysis revealed that students ge...
ABSRACT The study investigated the experiences of female sports journalists in Ghana. The study was based on the feminist and stereotype theories. The research investigated selected female sports journalists‟ lived experiences and their perceptions on being in a male dominated profession. The study was conducted using in-depth interviews with selected female sports journalists. The study revealed that sports journalism is clearly a gendered profession that not only welcomes men enthu...
ABSTRACT This research is a qualitative study that assessed causes of grammatical errors committed by Junior High School Students in their writings in English language and how to help reduce or correct them. The study sought to identify the grammatical errors, classify them and suggested ways to help students of Amankwakrom R/C Junior High School reduce the occurrence of such errors in their writings. This study used fifty-four (54) participants made up of fifty-two (52) students and two (2...
ABSTRACT The study examined the large numbers of pupils of Services Basic School in Burma Camp, La- Dadekotopon Municipality in Ghana who encounter considerable degree of complexity in the use of the perfect aspect as fundamental components of the English language in their communication. Thus, the study was carried out with the major aim of looking into the reasons behind the failure of pupils to use the perfect aspect of the English language in a proper manner and especially in their commu...