ABSTRACT This research is a case study in Asuom Senior High School in the Kwaebibirem Municipality, Eastern Region. The objective of this study was to identify the role of learning prose in the written compositions of first year students in ASEC. It also sought to see the impact of the literature-based approach in the composition writings of students. To achieve this, the researcher employed the qualitative design and the instruments used to collect data were; interviews, lesson observations,...
This research was designed to help basic three pupils of Kperiga D /A Primary School in the West Mamprusi Municipality-Walewale through the use of phonemes to improve upon their word recognition and spelling skills. The qualitative research design was used to guide the study. The sample size was made up of forty-eight (48) pupils. Pretest and post-test were used together with intervention activities to collect data for this research. After the intervention it was found that pupils exhibited h...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which reading difficulties affect academic performance of secondary school students. The study was to establish comprehension errors that affect students’ academic performance. This study employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches for data collection and analyzes both teachers and students. The research design was a descriptive survey design. Data was collected by use of questionnaire for teachers of English and stu...
ABSTRACT Education is key to the development of every nation and to deepen the benefits of education communication is necessary to aid the expression of ideas, opinions, thoughts and feelings either written or orally. There is however evidence that students in Junior High Schools lack the required depth of knowledge in English language. Students of Wobil Junior High School tend to make errors that suggest they do not have a full grasp of the rules of grammar; however, no comprehensive study h...
ABSTRACT This study sought to find out why the class four pupils of Saint Martin’s Anglican Primary School find it difficult to identify nouns in sentences and also find remedies to the problem. The researcher did a qualitative study and used observations, interviews and tests in diagnosing the cause of the problem with regard to noun identification in sentences. From the findings, it was realized that, the pupils did not pay attention in class whenever the English Language was being taught...
ABSTRACT Writing is an important skill for language production. However, it is considered a difficult skill, particularly in English as second language (ESL) contexts where students face challenges in that aspect. The present study was conducted to investigate difficulties that students of Northern School of Business face in composition writing; causes of challenges and remedies to those challenges. Though a number of students could express themselves in English, they could not write composit...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of code-switching as a pedagogical strategy by tutors and students of Dambai College of Education, Dambai. The study looks at the reasons behind the code-switching in the English Language classroom, when code-switching occurs in the English Language classroom and the functions of code-switching in the English Language classroom in Dambai College of Education. The study mainly employed qualitative approach in data collection, analysi...
ABSTRACT English as a Second Language (ESL) writing is a challenge to most of the learners in the Ghanaian schools. This study was carried out to investigate the concord problems among students of Gwriman Senior High School, Bamiankor in the Nzema East District. The purpose was to find out the nature and causes of these concord errors which involved subject- verb agreement in students' use of English language especially in writing. The students who participated in the study were students of G...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study that analyzed common concord errors in the written essays of Basic 7 pupils of Bulinga Basic School in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region of Ghana. The data used for the analysis comprised pupils’ written essays. From this, a total of 153 errors were identified. Seven error types were identified and they include: Subject verb concord errors, Determiner nouns concord errors, coordinated subject concord errors, Noun pronoun concord errors, In...
ABSTRACT Reading is an essential skill that every child of school age should acquire. The reason is that students who are able to read very well and understand what is read often perform better academically than their counterparts who struggle to read. This clearly demonstrates that there is a very close relationship between reading and academic performance. Hence the researcher’s interest to investigate how reading influences the academic performance of students, especially some first year...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted on the acoustic analysis of nasal consonant sounds in the Ewe language spoken in Ghana. Three major dialects were selected; Tɔŋu, Aŋlɔ and Eʋedome, with the purposes of investigating the acoustic properties of the Ewe nasal consonants, how the nasal consonants occurred at word positions in these dialects and identify similarities and differences existing at the dialectal levels. The analysis was made with the structure NV, VNV, NVN, CVN and NCV using mon...
ABSTRACT This study is explicitly geared towards investigating the use of primary auxiliary verbs in Baapelug Junior High School and it gives specific problems and the various interpretations extracted from the use of these verbs in the basic schools in the District. This study aims at looking for primary auxiliary verbs which are more used wrongly at their level. The descriptive approach to research was adopted for this study. A sample of the population was given a written test to find the l...
ABSTRACT This research sought to find out the problems of tense and aspect usage among the Wulugu Senior High Schools students which are in the West Mamprusi District of the Northern region of Ghana. The study, which focused on the problems of students using appropriate tense and aspect in writing, was conducted on the students in two forms. The instrument used was observation. The study reveals that students in Wulugu Senior High School had serious problems in using correct tense when writin...
ABSTRACT This thesis investigates the morphosyntax of the Dagbani (Gur, Niger-Congo) nominal Phrase (NP). The study described the internal components or constituents of the nominal phrase. It looked at the sequential order and distribution of the elements within the NP in addition to the pronominal system of the language. The methods used to collect the data were focus group discussion and elicitation. The Basic Linguistic Theory (BLT) (cf. Dixon, 2009, 2010, 2012) was adopted for this study....
ABSTRACT The study examined the effectiveness of using audio-visual aids in teaching letter sound identification to KG 2 pupils at the Jema D/A Primary School and the Jema Islamic Primary School. A total number of 59 pupils and 4 teachers from the two selected schools participated in the study. Pre-intervention and post intervention tests were conducted to test the effectiveness of using audio-visual aids in teaching letter sound identification. The research looked at how to assess the letter...