ABSTRACT Attitude as a component of human behavior is the pre-requisite for any action, and plays a dominant role in environmental sanitation. Unsustainable urbanization in Ghana has encouraged the increase in economic activities in various markets in urban settlements resulting in negative behaviors of people towards environmental sanitation in these markets. This study examines the attitudes of traders towards environmental sanitation at the Hohoe main market. It describes the general ...
ABSTRACT Based on the observation that French as a Foreign Language (FFL) learners in Ghana in general and learners from Ahamansu Islamic Senior High School in particular have difficulty in producing certain French vowels, to be specific, the rounded front oral vowels: [y], [ø] and [œ], we believe it is important to conduct a study that will enable us to discover the origin of this problem. To do this, we conduct a comparative study of the phonological system of French, the target language...
ABSTRACT The main aim of this study was to investigate and analyze the effectiveness of recruitment & selection of non professional teaching staff in the Ghana Education Service, keeping in view procedural fairness, transparency, line manager role, human resource competency in the organization. The study would assist and motivate the HRMD to recruit & select the best potential candidate to fill vacancies that exist in the district education office and other offices in GES. It further ass...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the instructional techniques used by Senior High School Social Studies teachers in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North-East Region of Ghana. A sample of eleven (11) teachers was selected for the study using the purposive sampling technique. As a qualitative study, open-ended (unstructured) interview guide and observational (direct) guide were designed to elicit information from the respondents. The study focused on the teachers’ knowledge of...
ABSTRACT This study examines how the BBC and Al Jazeera Online newspapers framed the xenophobic attacks in South Africa. The study is underpinned by the Framing Theory. Data were gathered from 32 news and feature articles by the BBC and 63 by Al Jazeera Online newspapers. These were thematically analyzed. The findings reveal that the attribution of Responsibility frame is the most dominant. This was followed by the frames of Human Interest, Economic Consequence, Conflict, and Morality in the...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative case study that analysed common deviations made by the Level 400 students of the Pentecost University College and the Regent University College of Science and Technology in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The data used for the analysis comprised students’ written test. From this, a total of 3060 deviations or errors were identified. Three categories of deviations were identified and they include morphological deviations (additions of words, omission, misf...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the methods as well as the challenges of teaching English as a second language in the Bawku Municipality. The objectives of the study were to examine the methods of teaching English Language, to examine the challenges to effective teaching and learning of English language in the Municipality, and to examine measures of improving teaching and learning of English language in the Bawku Municipality. The study adopted the qualitative design, using questionnaire, ...
ABSTRACT This thesis examines the autonomy of think tanks in the context of the neoliberal agenda. Ghana is experiencing the fourth wave of think tank emergence. This period is associated with globalisation, characterized by economic and political reform as solutions to economic crisis of the 1980s. The period has also witnessed the roll back of the state and assumption of state social welfare functions by civil society organizations perceived by the developmental partners as autonomous...
ABSTRACT Female employees in the hotel industry are sometimes unable to compete with their male counterparts on an equal level due to several visible and invisible barriers and challenges such as the demands of marriage and motherhood, gender and sex discrimination, sexual harassment among others. In Ghana very little is known about the problems females face in the hotel industry and how these create challenges ...
ABSTRACT The ultimate aim of this study is to find out the punctuation errors in the essays of Adamu D/A Junior High School pupils; to ascertain why the pupils commit punctuation errors in their essays and come out with solutions that will help solve the situation. The research design used is participatory action research. Eighteen pupils and two teachers of English were sampled through purposive and simple random sampling technique. Questionnaire, interview, observation and class test were t...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the problem of punctuation and capitalization among students of Nangalikinia Junior High school. The purpose of the study is to find out some of the errors basic school students commit when punctuating their writing. It is also to find out some of the causes of the punctuation problems among students and how to address them. This was done through pen and paper survey and through interview. The sample size used includes thirty (30) J.H.S students and five Eng...
ABSTRACT. This study is a sociolinguistic analysis of lexical and pronunciation variations among native speakers of Kolangɛ in the Seikwa Township located in the Bono-Ahafo region of Ghana. Kolangɛ exhibits important social variations which need to be described by linguists. The aim of the study was to examine the speech forms of the older generation and the younger generation and to establish any differences there may be. The study design was qualitative. The main instruments used ...
ABSTRACT This study examined the roles of indigenous actors and the complementary efforts made by Government and Civil Society Organizations to resolve the deadlock between the Gonja and Nawuri ethnic groups in the Kpandai district of Ghana. Classical conflict theories such as primordial, constructionist and instrumentalist were employed to underpin the causes of the conflict. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were employed to obtain data from the respondents, wh...
ABSTRACT This study is a critical discourse analysis of three selected speeches of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The analysis is situated in Fairclough’s triadic model for Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Thompson’s modes of ideology. A CDA of the speeches revealed how the speeches reflect prevailing societal issues such as respect for systems and structures of authority, responsibility, Pan- Africanism, total independence, patriotism, the Ghanaian identity and rules and ex...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the food quality management practice in hospitality industry, using Miklin Hotel Kumasi as a case study. The researcher used descriptive research design for the study. The research used both qualitative and quantitative research approach for the study. The total population of the study was 76. Random sampling method was used to select 63 respondents for the study. Primary and secondary data sources were used for the study. The main instrum...