ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of idiomatic expressions by the youth of Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana. Methodologically, the study was a descriptive survey that involved the use of interview and observation to collect primary data from the youth and adults in the various communities of Ho. A sample of thirty-two (32) individuals (youth and adults) and four (4) youth groups were used for this study. Purposive sampling technique was used by this researche...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the reading difficulties among Class 6 pupils of Kolbure Primary School in the Tempane District of the Upper East Region of Ghana. It followed the qualitative research design approach. To obtain a sample of the population for the study, the researcher adopted the simple random sampling technique, selecting 15 participants for the study. He adopted this technique because of the similar characteristics exhibited by the pupils. Three research instrumen...
ABSTRACT Despite the constant efforts in developing English Education in Ghana, it is still obvious students at almost all the levels display poor skills in composition. In view of this, the researcher decided to find out the effective ways that teachers of the English language could use to help students at the colleges of education level to overcome their writing difficulties. Among the tools used were test, observation, interview and the design took the form of pre-intervention, intervent...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine the use of Explicit Instruction in writing lessons at St. Monica’s College of Education in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. In this study, a collective case study design informed by constructivist grounded theory data analysis methods was used. Data were collected and analyzed using three instruments namely a semi-structured interview, sample texts on argumentative and expository essays and observations. The study revealed that combining the cognitive strat...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the problems of clause subordination among students of Opoku Ware Senior High School in the Kumasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region. The study specifically investigated some prevalent errors and mistakes committed by students and the source(s) of problems for the errors and mistakes. To address the objectives of the study, the descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. One hundred and two (102) participants were selected ...
ABSTRACT The use of pidgin among senior high school students has engaged the attention of different classes of people, especially educationists, linguists, parents and policy makers in education. The study aims at ascertaining the validity of the perception that pidgin is the cause of deviant Standard English usage among students at the senior high school. It also investigates the domain in which pidgin operates, the purpose for which it is used, whether it is used predominant and influenced ...
ABSTRACT Reading comprehension is an important part of every human activity. Despite its significance in the academic world and the world of work, many people are challenged with varied degrees of difficulties when it comes to reading comprehension. This study therefore sought to improve reading comprehension skills of students in the Senior High School, particularly Kanton Senior High School. The study used both qualitative and quantitative data gathered from fifty-eight (58) participants ...
ABSTRACT A great deal of studies have been conducted using Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) particularly the Ideational Metafunction. Nevertheless, few of them have adopted Systemic Functional Grammar to investigate the syntax of newspaper headlines (Ansary, 2005; Ong‘onda, 2016; Abdulameer, Noor and Nasser, 2019)). The Ideational Metafunction of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) by Halliday (1994) is employed to examine 60 Ghanaian Newspaper Headlines from 5 newspaper agencies. The purpo...
ABSTRACT This is a qualitative study that examined orthographic and grammatical errors in the written essays of upper primary pupils of Gyahadze M/A Primary School. The instruments used for data collection were observation and test. From this, a total of 310 errors were identified. Six error types were identified on spelling, capitalization, punctuation, errors in the use of tense, errors in the use of articles and L1 transfer errors. Causes of these errors identified were from factors rang...
ABSTRACT Learners’ attitude towards the study of English Language and Literature in English is very important for effective teaching and learning in ESL settings. Numerous researches at various settings on learners’ attitude had come out with various causes or factors that contributes to learners’ attitude formation. This thesis investigated the attitude of Senior High Students towards the study of Literature in English in some selected schools in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The aim o...
ABSTRACT This study provides an overview of the Noun Class System of Nawuri; one of the Guang languages which is a closely related group of languages, spoken largely in Ghana, Cote d‟Ivoire, Togo and Benin. The study presents the analyses of nouns into classes in Nawuri. It examines the various mechanisms and motivationg factor for Nawuri nominal classification. The study further looks at the patterns of inflection and derivation in Nawuri. Data were collected from primary and secondary s...
ABSTRACT Studies have shown that the major English writing problem area of students is the violation of English concord rules. The pupils of Ayetepa Basic Schools are no exception of this problem. Although concord rules are taught at the primary level and even in JHS 1, the JHS 2 pupils of Ayetepa D/A Basic „A‟ and „B‟ still have challenges making the words in their sentences agree with one another. This study therefore examined the specific concord errors that JHS 2 pupils of Ayetep...
ABSTRACT Studies on English and specifically WAEC chief Examiner’s report on English Language performance annually show that the main English writing problem area of students in the second cycle institutions in Ghana relates to students violation of English concord rules. Concord rules are taught at all levels of education in Ghana, but unfortunately, most senior high school students have challenges making their sentences concordant. This situation is not different from what the researcher...
ABSTRACT Reading comprehension is very important in every academic work. However, learners find it difficult to read and understand what they read. The research was carried out to investigate into reading and comprehension difficulties of students of Brakwa Senior High Technical School. The research site of this study was Brakwa Senior High Technical School. The data collection tools that were used were; Observation, Interview and Pre-test and Post-test interventions respectively. 35 student...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to unravel the mystery surrounding the errors committed by some JHS pupils in the Effijam-Sekyere District of the Ashanti region. It was necessary to find out why these errors: Tense, Spelling, Concord, Capitalization and Preposition errors which were identified were committed by pupils in most cases. This study adopted a qualitative approach in examining the grammatical errors in the written essays of 150 JHS pupils of three different schools in the d...