ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to investigate the summary writing mistakes that are made among the second year students of Dadieso Senior High in the Western North Region of Ghana. The main objectives addressed in the research were to find out the factors that account for the summary writing problems and to find out ways of addressing them. The instruments employed in this study included test, questionnaire, observation and descriptions. Findings of the study revealed that it is diffi...
ABSTRACT This thesis focuses on some aspects of morphological and phonological differences between Gomoa and Iguae subdialects of the Fante dialect of the Akan language. It is a comparative study modeled within the framework of generative phonology. The data used for the study come from recorded speeches and conversations in Gomoa and Iguae subdialects of Fante. The work talks about the ethnographic linguistic Akan and language in general. On morphological differences, the study compares so...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to find out the approaches of teachers’ teaching of narrative essays to students of Osei Tutu II College at Tetrem, Ashanti Region. Narratives differ from answers because the informant chooses and orders the relevant issues through telling and relates the details into the context. Narratives have the point, the plot and temporal structure. Narrative data provides active data, multivoice data and accessible data to sensitive issues, and topics that are...
ABSTRACT This work is a qualitative study that analyses grammar errors in the written essays of SHS graduate in Ghana, specifically Berekum Methodist Senior High/Technical School. The research sought to establish the types and causes of grammar errors in the written composition of SHS graduates and how it could be addressed. A total of two (2) teachers and one hundred and forty (140) students out of four hundred and fifty six (456) population, were selected through purposive sampling tech...
ABSTRACT This study sought to find out the problems of composition writing among students in the Senchi-Ferry Methodist Junior High School in Ghana. The focus of the research work was on spelling and concord errors that were most common in their written composition. The target population was all students in Senchi-Ferry Methodist Junior High School, numbering 250 students. The sample used was thirty (30) students from Form One ‘A’ class. The instruments used for data collection were t...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study that analyzed common concord errors in the written tests of Tumu Senior High Technical School. The data used for the analysis comprised students’ written tests. From this, a total of 7156 concord errors were identified. Seven concord error types were identified and they include subject-verb concord errors, concord with indefinite expressions of amounts, determinant-noun concord errors, noun-pronoun concord errors, verb-tense concord errors, inverted su...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate poor reading among Basic Five Pupils of Kukurantumi Islamic Primary School in the East-Akim Municipality. Action research design was employed for the study. The study sample was made up 30 pupils. Test, observation and interview were used to solicit information from the respondents. The instruments covered three main aspects: reading difficulties of pupils, causes of reading inability of pupils and strategies to curb the problem. The data c...
ABSTRACT The study explored the influence of reading on the writing of students in selected Junior High Schools in the Adentan Municipality. The objectives of the study were to explore how reading influenced the vocabulary span of students, the influence reading had on paragraph development of students, and to identify the difficulties students encountered with writing if they do not read. To achieve this, a convergent parallel design was adopted. This design enabled the researcher to adopt a...
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 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 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...
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...