ABSTRACT The study intended to examine the challenges facing Tanzanian Sign Language learners. It, specifically, focused on the examination of those challenges which Sign Language learners face while learning their language. It also focused on investigating the causes of challenges facing TSL learners. The study also aimed at finding out possible solutions towards eradication of the challenges. It was guided by the Linguistic Interdependence Theory propounded by Jim Cummins (1981). The study ...
ABSTRACT The objective of the study is to assess the impact of lack of motivational incentives on delivery of immigration services in Tanzania with Zanzibar as a case study. The study specifically intends to identify and assess the relevance of allowances given to immigration officers, to assess the magnitude of accommodation given to immigration officers and to examine the extent of transportation incentives provided to immigration officers for sustainable delivery of immigration services. T...
ABSTRACT This study examined the challenges associated with the Travelling and Subsistence Allowance (T&SA) within the Ministry of Defence. Included in the study are the following issues: overspending on travelling and subsistence allowances; lack of focus by Human Resources personnel on foreign missions; inadequate qualified personnel at management level; lack of recognition by senior management; unfair treatment and unnecessary low-priority trips being undertaken. The study used qualitativ...
ABSTRACT Namibian schools are faced with many and serious challenges and skilful leadership of school principals is essential as it is a major contributing factor to school improvement and effectiveness. However, it should be ensured that school principals are well trained and receive continuous professional development (Bush & Oduro, 2006). This may for example be through mentoring novice school principals. Although novice principals in Namibia receive induction from school inspectors, unfo...
Abstract The study is a critical analysis of the literary representations of socio-political issues in the Namibian society as portrayed in Philander’s two anthologies: The Namibian Stage Chronicles (2010) and King of the Dump and Other Plays (2005). Namibia attained independence in 1990 and socio-political issues such as unemployment, violence against women and children, nepotism, corruption, poverty, injustice and economic window dressing dominate life. The chosen plays from the two anth...
ABSTRACT This thesis was a stylistic analysis of language use in advertising, a study of advertisements of selected Small to Medium Entrepreneurs in the Oshana region. The main purpose of the study was to explore and discuss the most common stylistic devices used in advertisements by SMEs in the Oshana region and to analyse the stylistic features used in advertisements by SMEs. The study examined how the English language used in selected advertisements reflects the AIDA (Attention, Interest,...
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ABSTRACT This study explores the perceived impact of mass media campaigns in communicating information on HIV/AIDS prevention to in-school (ISY) and out-of-school youth (OOSY) in Oshana Region, northern Namibia. Mass media campaigns have become one of the acknowledged means for stemming the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Since the first case of HIV/AIDS was diagnosed in Namibia in 1986, HIV/AIDS has become the number one cause of hospitalisation and death among people of all ages and of...
ABSTRACT The Language Policy for Schools in Namibia states that for pedagogical reasons it is ideal for learners to study through their Mother Tongue (MT), particularly in the early years of schooling when basic skills of reading, writing and concept formation are acquired. In order to be literate, one should not only speak well, but also know the written language, as language is the system of human expression by means of words (Republic of Namibia, 2003). Therefore, the system of human expr...
ABSTRACT The current study was carried out to investigate the following: firstly, the pragmatic competence of UNAM’s second-year Bachelor of Education Students majoring in English in selected speech acts, namely, the speech act of refusal, compliment responses and apologies. Secondly, the relationship between the pragmatic and grammatical competencies of the students was investigated. Lastly, it studied the factors that influence students’ pragmatic competence. The researcher intended to...
ABSTRACT The arguments presented in this study deal with the complicated factors associated with the formation of new identities in post-apartheid South Africa and Anglo-Saxon Protestant American communities. This study provides a comparative analysis of identity and belonging as portrayed in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut (2007). Furthermore, the study explores how identity and belonging relate to issues of standards of white beauty, self-loathing and ...
Abstract The debate about the need for a clearly defined policy on career development/progression in the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) has been widely discussed in the NDF since its inception in 1990. Although there is already an existing policy, issues related to career development/progression among the Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) in the NDF has not been clearly articulated. In light of these observations, a research study was initiated to explore and examine views and perceptions of th...
ABSTRACT In the contemporary world of advertising, the highly sexualised feminine figure sells products (Haugg, 1998). The study examines, through the theoretical lenses of Poststructural Feminism and Semiotic Theories, how women are projected sexually in mass media advertisements, specifically, pictorial perfume advertisements in Her and Vogue magazines. It examines how such ‘sexualised’ images and (re)presentations of the feminine shape public opinions and perceptions on/about gender a...
ABSTRACT This study explored the relationship between adult literacy and community development in Ghana from a social practices perspective of literacy and peoplecentred development. The study adopted an interpretive qualitative case study methodology, using the perceptions and experiences of research participants in two neighbouring communities. Primary data were collected using four ethnographic methods of data collection namely: in-depth interviews, participant observation, informal conver...
Abstract The impetus for this research is the well-documented current inability of Higher Education to facilitate the level of problem solving required in 21st century engineering practice. The research contends that there is insufficient understanding of the nature of and relationship between the significantly different forms of disciplinary knowledge underpinning engineering practice. Situated in the Sociology of Education, and drawing on the social realist concepts of knowledge structures ...