ABSTRACT The study examined the roles of NGOs in poverty alleviation and education in the SefwiWiawso Municipality in the Western Region of Ghana. The work was guided by development theories notably modernization theory, dependency theory, community development theory, neo-liberalism and underpinned by three main philosophical components to wit; ontological, epistemological and methodological approaches. The exploratory mixed method design was employed for the study. Primary data were sourced...
ABSTRACT Out of preliminary observation of gerunds in Nandome, it is realised that the gerund marker {-bú} is not realised fully in speech but a split form of it, [-b] or [ú] are realised. Also, the gerund phrase in Nandome distinguishes between sentence adjuncts and adjuncts of a verb phrase. The movement of sentential adjuncts was found to resolve ambiguity in the gerund phrase. It was observed that degree emphasis can be achieved by making a gerund an argument to its root verb. In invest...
ABSTRACT The study sought to determine the extent to which motivational packages influence performance of employees in the Ghana Education Service. The research design used for the study was cross-sectional study. A target population of the study was 50. A set of questionnaire consisting of both closed and open ended questions were used to collect data from 50 teachers as respondents. The data collected was based on the available motivational packages in Ghana Education service. The extent to...
ABSTRACT The study sought to determine the extent to which motivational packages influence performance of employees in the Ghana Education Service. The research design used for the study was cross-sectional study. A target population of the study was 50. A set of questionnaire consisting of both closed and open ended questions were used to collect data from 50 teachers as respondents. The data collected was based on the available motivational packages in Ghana Education service. The extent t...
ABSTRACT The study was students’ motivation and preference for home economics subjects in Senior High Schools in Ashanti Region, Ghana. The target population was the second and third year Senior High School students in three selected schools in the Ashanti Region, their teachers were sampled for the study. In all, 3 teachers, and 86 students, were engaged in the study. The researcher used both questionnaire and interviews as the main instruments for data collection. The data collected were ...
ABSTRACT This study analysed two speeches delivered by Dr. Mensa Otabil: a renowned preacher, entrepreneur and Chancellor of the Central University in Ghana. It is situated in Fairclough’s three dimensional model to critical discourse analysis and Thompson’s modes of ideology. A textual analysis of the speeches revealed how they reflect prevailing societal issues such as challenges in life, political, economic and cultural problems and how the speaker perceives such issues. The study also...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study aimed at investigating the grammatical errors students of Ghana Senior High School, Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana commit in their essay writing. The study sought to identify grammatical errors and examine the causes of the errors. To achieve these objectives, essays from 201 students randomly selected from across the three streams were collected and analyzed. In all, 2864 errors were identified; verb related errors, concord, prepositional, adverbi...
ABSTRACT 4 This study was conducted to investigate the leadership styles of headteachers and their influence on academic performance in selected government schools in the Asokore Mampong Municipality in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Data were collected with questionnaires. A total of eighty (80) primary school teachers, head teachers and pupils were used for the study. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that a holistic practice of the Path-Goal leadershi...
ABSTRACT Despite the constant efforts made by teachers, stakeholders in education and parents to develop English education in Ghana, it is still obvious that students cannot express themselves in speaking Standard English, write meaningful essays or read with comprehension. This canker is attributed to low vocabulary acquisition. That is why this study sought to use extensive reading to enhance the vocabulary acquisition of students of senior high schools, particularly Ghana Senior High Schoo...
ABSTRACT In Ghana, child nutrition and health are major public health and developmental challenges. In this study, interpretivist and positivist paradigms were applied to assess breastfeeding practices and risk of childhood morbidity. The GDHS 2014 data and in-depth interviews with mothers were used. Multivariate, geospatial, and inductive analyses were employed to manage the data. The study extracted 2202 respondents and engaged 20 participants. The multivariate logistic regression analyses...
ABSTRACT What factors account for the difference in gender representation in Ghana's Parliament? What is driving Ghana towards the achievement of gender equality in parliamentary representation? What measures are in place to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal five (SDG5) in the area specified? What seems to be slowing the process? Against this backdrop, countries including Ghana have consented to global developmental goals, particularly the SDG 5, aimed at achieving gender equality and ...
ABSTRACT This thesis investigates the sociopragmatics of requests in Logba, a Ghana-Togo Mountain language spoken in the Hohoe District of the Volta Region of Ghana. It aims at examining the use of request expressions in the language by systematically describing the various strategies and some socio-cultural situations where request expressions are used among the Logbas. The study shows that interlocutors‟ choice of request expression is contingent on variables such as gender, rank, age, po...
ABSTRACT The study made use of a descriptive cross sectional survey approach. The research approach involves the use of questionnaires to obtain quantitative data. The target population for the research consisted of workforce comprising management, employees , and customers of MPS container terminal. Consequently, six (6) technical/operations managers were randomly selected from a population of eight (8) managers. Also, a sample of seventy (70) respondents was randomly selected from a populat...
ABSTRACT Meningitis health education programmes are prevalent in the meningitis belt of Ghana. This is due to the severity of the disease and its ability to cause permanent deformities and even deaths. The objective of the study was to ascertain the level of knowledge on symptoms, treatment and prevention among the residents of the endemic communities of Tamale and Bole, to assess the effectiveness of the various channels employed by the health education programmes in their effort to create a...
ABSTRACT Pregnancy is a pre-condition to reproduction and childbearing. However, the life-threatening risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth have turned the whole process into one full of anxiety and fear as some women never make it alive. Upon several efforts by governments and international organizations, it is sad to still see families losing their loved ones during pregnancy or childbirth especially in our part of the world. Numerous studies tend to focus on the provision and util...