ABSTRACT This study examined the way in which socio – cultural identities and ideological motivation permeate English language learning and the effect on language competence. The investigation looked at two diametrically distinct schools (i.e. a Grade A and a Grade C school) particularly in the area of the students` background and motivation, to ascertain the effect of these socio – cultural and motivational factors that impinge on the learning of grammar and vocabulary, which reflects in...
ABSTRACT Apprenticeships play a key role in providing a qualified workforce. In Ghana’s informal apprenticeships have a wider reach to those who need work skills than formal apprenticeships. However, due to non-regulation and lack of supervision, informal apprenticeship is plagued with numerous challenges. This study explored the activities of informal mechanic apprenticeships in the La Dade Kotopon Municipality and reviewed apprenticeship models in other countries that can be adapted to im...
ABSTRACT The study investigates the performance of students in Colleges of Education in the English language.The researcher is an English language tutor at the SDA College of Education and has observed over a period that the students perform poorly in the English language examinations. The study is guided by four research questions. They are (1) Are trainee teachers’ performance in the English language affecting pupils’ performance at the basic school level? (2) What are the causes of tra...
ABSTRACT Looking at its geographical location, Ghana which is an Anglophone country is surrounded by francophone countries. This is a major factor for which great attention should be given to the French language. In the framework of the sub-regional integration policy initiated by ECOWAS, there is free movement of people and wealth from one country to the other. In view of that, we assume that some key Ghanaian administrative sectors should have their personnel trained in French for specific ...
ABSTRACT The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme is a social intervention introduced in 2008 by the Government of Ghana to offer both conditional and unconditional cash grants to the vulnerable. However, payments to the beneficiaries have been irregular. This study therefore sought to examine the effects of delays and the coping strategies adopted by the beneficiary households to deal with the delays. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods. A sample s...
ABSTRACT This study was inspired by the assumption that a consultative-based approach to pharmacy services offered opportunities for improving health service delivery outcomes in developing countries like Ghana, where there is a wide deficit of doctor-to-patient ratios. Specifically, the study was conducted to investigate: the nature of pharmacist communication; the factors that influence pharmacist communication; the relationship between pharmacist communication and patient medication adhere...
ABSTRACT The sharing of domestic expenses between conjugal units in Ghanaian households has changed overtime. The way and manner in which conjugal units in rural Ghana shared their domestic expenses tend to be different from how conjugal units in urban Ghana share their domestic expenses. This is as a result of the change in factors such as the shift from the farming system in agrarian economies of the rural areas to monetized urban economies where there is the market system, access to educat...
ABSTRACT The arrival of the North German Missionary Society, also known as the Bremen Mission, in the Volta Region of Ghana was of great significance. Their contact with the people of the Volta Region marked the birth of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, and other developmental activities in Eweland. The study offers a missiological perspective of the influence of diverse activities of the Bremen Mission in early German missionised and colonial communities of Peki, Keta, Waya, Anyak...
ABSTRACT Physical aggression, psychological mistreatment and sexual abuse against women in intimate unions are public health concerns globally. They constitute infringements on human rights, and are a huge economic burden to nations. Research suggests that individual level factors and women’s subordinate position to men predispose them to male-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV). In sub-Saharan Africa where marriages are near universal, little is known about the cultural context wit...
Abstract This study examined the internal communication strategies and channels used by Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG) in its preparations towards crises. It also studied ECG’s employees’ perceptions of those channels used in communicating crisis-related information to them. An in-depth interview was conducted with the ECG Public Relations Manager and results of the responses were analyzed using Morgan’s ethnography summary. In addition, a survey was conducted on 100 employe...
ABSTRACT This study primarily sought to investigate the effects of colonialism on the cultural identities of Africans, using Ghana and South Africa as case studies. Cultural identity was categorised into 3 major components; customs and traditions, language and land and it is within this ambit that both theoretical and empirical literature were sought and discussed to achieve the study objectives. Hence, this research confined itself to events during and after the colonial period (and aparthe...
ABSTRACT Background to the study Radon is a globally present and known radioactive gas with its ability to cause lung cancer as its major health implication. Ghana currently lacks national policies on radon gas and substantive radon vulnerability map largely due to lack of adequate baseline radon concentration data for the entire country. This thesis thus seeks to provide baseline radon data for the South-Dayi District, the effective dose assessment due to inhalation of the measured in-door c...
ABSTRACT The n-butanol fraction (nBF) of Desmodium adscendens , a plant used for the management of asthma, is' an inhibitor of NADFH-dependent cytochrcme P-450 (CYP) reactions. Its mechanism of action as an inhibitor is hcwever not kncwn. In this stud/, flavoprotein reductase activity, spectral changes associated with binding and spectral prcperties of reduced cytochrcme c and CYP were used to investigate the mode of inhibition. nBF reduced cytochrome c but not CYP directly. In the presence o...
ABSTRACT Britain's initial consideration to become a member of the European Community began on 1 August 1961, but officially became a member of the EU on June 7, 1975. The UK in contemporary times has been the second greatest contributor after Germany, to financing the budget of the EU. However, the decision by the UK on June 23, 2016, to leave the European Union (which has been termed ‘Brexit’) has generated much global concerns on both the shortterm and long-term implications this move...
Introduction This work is a comparative study of the numeric system of two of the most widely spoken languages not only in Nigeria but Africa and the world as a whole. It is to explain the styles adopted by the speakers of both languages in expressing numeral situations. In the early days of some comparison between languages, some scholars had argued that there was such a strong linguistic affinity between Hausa and English numerals so much that the two languages could have common meaning ...