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...
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...
ABSTRACT The production and proliferation of the novel and its associated innovative modes of narration in the modern corpus of literature require critical appraisal especially with regard to narratological issues. Crucial is the concern for the function of and the indispensable role of narratological time in narratives. This study explores Time with its complexity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child. As its theoretical framework, the research ap...
ABSTRACT The production and proliferation of the novel and its associated innovative modes of narration in the modern corpus of literature require critical appraisal especially with regard to narratological issues. Crucial is the concern for the function of and the indispensable role of narratological time in narratives. This study explores Time with its complexity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child. As its theoretical framework, the research a...
ABSTRACT The increasing use of the internet has also increased the chances of receiving scam emails. Several linguistics approaches have been used by researchers to conduct several studies on deception. Even though these approaches have helped to detect deception, they focus on aspects of the texts as opposed to a holistic analysis of the functional orientation of the texts. This study examines how deception is construed through linguistic choices, by first breaking up email texts into cla...
ABSTRACT Social media is a fusion of sociology and technology, transferring monologue into dialogue. The internet and its social platforms have been the most influential tools in staying connected with families and friends since their inception. People, especially the youth, are purposely and covertly connected with one another by sharing information among themselves about the latest trends, events and happenings via the social websites. This study explores the effects of social media ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to analyse all instances of simultaneous talk in classroom discourse. The study specifically ascertained the kind of interruptions and overlaps that occurred in the classroom discourse, determined the functions of interruptions and overlaps in the classroom discourse and examined the effects of interruptions and overlaps in the classroom discourse. The researcher adopted the qualitative research approach and case study design. The target population of this study c...
ABSTRACT With the establishment of democratic cultures in Africa, the need for a deeper appreciation and application of the communicative functions (as the fundamental principles of rhetoric) which the linguistic choices of a political speaker are able to generate within a particular social context is not only essential but also critical. This study explores the illocutionary acts performed in Presidential Inaugural Addresses (PIAs) by some Ghanaian presidents of the 4th republic and th...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the use of epistemic modality in two selected State of the Nation Addresses delivered by Ex-president John Agyekum Kufour of Ghana on 16th February, 2001 and 14th February, 2008respectively. The two texts were purposely selected, closely read and analyzed through mixed method of qualitative and quantitative dimensions. The analysis employs analytical frameworks of Kratzer’s Contextdependency and Lexical Specialization and Halliday and Matthiessen Modal ...
ABSTRACT The study examined how language has been used by President John Evans Attah Mills to present the message in his first State-of-the-Nation address. The main focus of the study was the analysis of transitivity in the address and the functions it plays in political discourse. Halliday‘s Systemic Functional Grammar was applied as a theoretical framework and the qualitative research design was used for the content analysis of the text. The study applied the interpretative content anal...
ABSTRACT The study examined how cohesive devices have been used by President John Mahama to present the message in his State-of-the-Nation Address in 2016. The main focus of the study was the analysis of cohesive devices and their communicative implications in the address. Halliday and Hasan’s cohesion theory (1976) was applied as a theoretical framework to analyse the use of both grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in the address. The study discovered inter alia the use of gram...
ABSTRACT The present research adapted Crystal’s (2008) analytical model to investigate the language of WhatsApp used among students of St. Martin’s Senior High School, Adoagyri-Nsawam. Through documentation and semi-structured interviews, the informants who comprised of 35 students with 10 males and 25 females, helped collect 115 chats out of which 100 were sampled for the analysis. The results revealed hybridized language permeated into the linguistic continuum of the students’ mode o...
ABSTRACT This study analyses register and lexical cohesive devices in the 2012 manifesto of the New Patriotic Party using the theories of Cohesion by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and Halliday (1994) register theory. The study employed qualitative research approach and purposive sampling technique to select the 2012 manifesto of the NPP. The registers in the manifesto were analysed based on Leech and Short (2007) lexical category. The findings of the study revealed that nouns are the prepondera...