Nowadays the importance of the integration of the 4 skills in the classroom is vital, specially for teaching a second language like English. This job is not impossible and there are many things to do. Teachers must be aware of this challenge and h3lp students reach the level of English they aspire to have.
ABSTRACT This study examined the availability of computer assisted language facilities in Osun state model schools and determined the influence the facilities availability has on students’ performance in English Language. The study further established the influence of the facilities utilization has on students’ performance. They were with view of improving students’ performance in English Language. The study population comprised students of all model schools in Osun State. The students�...
Abstract This article proposes strategies for designing and evaluating curriculum materials for enhancing English language grammatical competence among Form One learners in Tanzanian secondary schools. Using quasi-experimental and phenomenological designs, the authors developed an exemplary Learner Centered Instructional Grammar Material (LCIGM) focusing on Form One learners. Materials design approach and Constructivism Theory of learning guided the exercise. The data for the study were coll...
ABSTRACT The study sought to explore the challenges associated with teaching of English composition writing in Khami district. The study adopted a qualitative research paradigm .The study adopted a survey design in which questionnaires were distributed to teachers and interviewees were administered to teachers in charge , deputy heads and heads of primary schools in Khami district .A total of 45 questionnaires were distributed to the teachers in three primary schools of Khami district .The re...
ABSTRACT Secondary school students in Kenya learn imaginative writing through English, a second language performed dismally making educators and the general Kenyan public worried. This study established educational factors influencing learning of imaginative writing in secondary schools in Kakamega Central Sub County, Kenya. It investigated the strategies secondary school teachers of English use in the teaching of imaginative writing, Form Three students’ practices used to learning of imagi...
ABSTRACT This study addressed senior secondary school students‟ lack of grammatical and communicative competence in English language. The Communicative Grammar Instructional Model (CGIM) was proposed as a methodological framework for remedying this situation. Based on this model, a grammar and communication coursebook was developed and validated for use at the second tier of the senior secondary school programme. In the coursebook, components of traditional teaching methods (grammar instru...
ABSTRACT The subject of gender is an important part in the study of postcolonial societies. Post-colonial societies are the battlefields for the struggle for identity after the culmination of the imperialistic colonial institution. Therefore this study aims to uncoverthe interconnectedness of gender and culture and how identity informs the course of gender roles.This study advances that the drastic shift of gender roles was first recorded with the inception of colonialism in Africa as women...
ABSTRACT Despite this rich use to which drama has been put in Zimbabwe, schools, colleges and Universities have largely sidelined the study of drama (plays) on the official syllabi in preference to other genres such as the short story, poems and the novel, as if drama has not richly debated societal challenges by contesting the various levels of inequalities, power relations and social trends that need correction in the Zimbabwean society. This is glaringly clear in the Department of Englis...
Abstract The study sought to assess the applicability of the Communicative Approach in the teaching of English Language at Ordinary Level in order to establish the extent to which the approach is being implemented by Ordinary Level English Language teachers. The study was conducted in the Lalapanzi Cluster of Chirumanzu District in the Midlands Province. The problem is that despite the introduction of Communicative Language Teaching, many teachers are employing structural methods to language ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to find out the teachers‟ views about communicative language teaching within Beitbridge urban schools in Beitbridge District which is in Matabeleland South province. The researcher used the Qualitative research design. A sample of four schools was chosen using the purposive sampling method. Data in the field was collected using the in-depth interviews. Four teachers of English were interviewed using in-depth interviews. The collected data was analyzed both qualita...
ABSTRACT The research was designed to explore how Barack Obama constructs his self identities which enable him to get to power. This construction is reflected in his self life-writings including Dreams from My Father: A story of Race and Inheritance, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the AmericanDream and Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to RenewAmerica’s Promise. Postcolonial theories on identity construction were used for the reason that they reflect the multiple...
ABSTRACT The research was designed to explore how Barack Obama constructs his self identities which enable him to get to power. This construction is reflected in his self life-writings including Dreams from My Father: A story of Race and Inheritance, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the AmericanDream and Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to RenewAmerica’s Promise. Postcolonial theories on identity construction were used for the reason that they reflect the multiple...
BSTRACT This study investigates the literary portrayal of children as participants of the liberation struggle as illustrated in Ellen Namhila’s The Price of Freedom and Lydia Shaketange’sWalking the Boeing 707. The focus of the study was to investigate how the two Namibian autobiographical texts represent children in the liberation struggle. It examines whether children are portrayed as agents in the liberation struggle or simply objects of pity and victims in the exilic environment. The ...
Abstract This thesis was an analysis of satire as a tool for socio-political commentary in The Rambler’s articles. The study analysed the strategies that The Rambler used in 40 articles that were published in 2015 in The Namibian newspaper. In addition, the study sought to analyse how these strategies were employed in The Rambler’s satire to foreground socio-political issues. The study was qualitative because the process of data analysis involved organising raw data (articles) for classi...
Background of the Study Education provides children with the knowledge and skills necessary to advance themselves and their nation economically. To this effect, there are some socio-economic factors and political factors that often affect the level of performance of children who undergo the educational system more especially in Nigeria setting. However, social is a concept that relate to human society and its mode of organization or rank and status in society, or interacting with other peopl...