Research Papers/Topics in Applied Linguistics

Politeness Strategies in Dagbani: A Socio Pragmatic Approach

ABSTRACT   This study offers a systematic socio-pragmatic discussion of politeness strategies in Dagbani, a Gur (Mabia) language belonging to the Oti-Volta branch in the Niger-Congo family. The work focuses on both linguistic and non-linguistic strategies that are employed in the language for the coding of politeness. It employs Brown and Levinson’s notion of ‘face’ as the theoretical framework. The study explores some key thematic areas, which include the correlation between power an...

Investigating the Concord Problems of Senior High School Students: A Case Study of Ghana Senior High School, Tamale

ABSTRACT  Studies indicate that the major area of students’ writing problems in English language relates to the violation of English language concord rules. Concord rules are taught at all levels of education in Ghana, but sadly, most Senior High School students have great challenges in making their sentences concordant. The students of Ghana Senior High school, Tamale, are no exception. The study sought to identify the peculiar concord problem areas of Ghana Senior High School students, ...

ANALYSIS OF COHESION AND COHERENCE IN PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ EXPOSITORY ESSAYS

ABSTRACT   This study explores the way cohesive patterns are distributed in expository essays of students in Evangelical Presbyterian College of Education, Bimbilla, and compares the relationship between the occurrence of the devices and text quality. The study further describes and explains the problems encountered by the students in creating cohesion and the causes of the problems. The current research adopted the sequential exploratory mixed research approach involving text analysis, sem...

WRONG USAGE OF CONCORD AMONG SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENTS: A STUDY AMONG SHS 2 STUDENTS OF NKAWKAW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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...

PROBLEMS OF CLAUSE SUBORDINATION AMONG SENIOR HIGH STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY IN OPOKU WARE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (SHS 2 STUDENTS) .

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 ...

COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CLASSROOM AT SELECTED COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN THE BONO AND AHAFO REGIONS OF GHANA

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...

THE ROLE OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN LECTURE DELIVERY: AN ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS LESSONS IN KUMASI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY.

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...

THE SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC PROPERTIES OF ‘TWA’, ‘SUSU’, ‘SESA’, AND ‘KA’ VERBS IN AKAN

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...

THE LANGUAGE OF ALCHOLIC ADVERTISEMENT IN GHANA

ABSTRACT This research focuses on the language of alcoholic advertisement texts in Ghana. The purpose was to investigate the linguistic features embedded in alcoholic advertisement texts as well as their communicative functions. Picture taking, interviews and snapshots of televised alcoholic advertising texts were used for data collection. In all, ten pictures and three people were interviewed. The Layered meaning theory (Clarks, 1996) was used for the qualitative analysis. The findings reve...

Problems Associated With the Use of Concord in English: A Case Study of Our Lady of Lourdes Junior High School, Navrongo

ABSTRACT  The objective of this study was to investigate the challenges associated with the use of concord in English language among the pupils of Our Lady of Lourdes Junior High School. Another objective is to propose an appropriate teaching and techniques to overcome such problems. Another objective is to use the findings of the study to improve the performance of pupils in the use of concord. The researcher adopted qualitative research design method. Random sampling was used to select pup...

College of Education Students' Attitude Towards the Teaching and Learning of Children's Literature

ABSTRACT The study examined the perception of pre-service teachers regarding children’s literature and how their views impact their attitude towards literature for children. The study adopted Spolsky’s (1989) model of second language teaching and learning as the framework to College of Education students’ attitude towards the teaching and learning of Children’s Literature. Using a convergent parallel mixed method design and purposive sampling, data were collected by means of question...

IMPROVING ENGLISH READING HABITS/SKILLS OF PRIMARY SIX PUPILS: A CASE STUDY OF ST. PAUL‟S R/C PRIMARY „B‟ SCHOOL

ABSTRACT  This study investigates the poor reading skills among pupils of St. Paul‟s R/C Primary School „B‟. The purpose of the study is to find out the causes of poor reading skills, the effects of poor reading skills on the pupils and the strategies that can be adopted to improve upon them. This was done through data collection tools interview, observation and questionnaire. The sample size used was thirty-eight (38) class six pupils and six (6) teachers of St. Paul‟s R/C Primary S...

ASSESSING THE USE OF ENGLISH AS A MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION AT ASAFO CATHOLIC JHS

ABSTRACT The language of education is crucial to learners’ academic success. As a result, most multilingual countries have adopted bilingual education systems that recognize the child’s native language and a second language, which in most cases is the official language of the country. Ghana, because of its multilingual nature, has promulgated a language policy which uses the child’s L1 as medium of instruction at the lower basic level from KG1 to Primary Three and English used from Pri...

ENGLISH AS A MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION A CASE STUDY OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN NKORANZA NORTH AND SOUTH DISRTICTS OF BONO EAST.

ABSTRACT   The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of English as a medium of instruction in Senior High Schools of Nkoranza North and South districts in the Bono East. The study is guided by three research questions. The study used cross-sectional survey design to gather quantitative data. The researcher employed a simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques. The study was explanatory in nature, a form of qualitative study for explanations that exist between variab...

ANALYSIS OF SPELLING ERRORS IN THE WRITING OF PROSO D/A JHS TWO PUPILS

ABSTRACT  This study investigated spelling errors committed by pupils of Proso D/A JHS in the Juabeso District and are learning English language (L2) as a core subject. The study examined written works (essays and class exercises) of 40 pupils who were in form two(2). The rational for using the form two pupils was that they would soon progress to form three and prepare for external and also final examination and this is to find the extent of their early preparation and seriousness towards le...


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