ABSTRACT The research is aim to find out the relevance of reading newspapers among students. The majority of students agree that reading newspapers enhancing their reading ability and its develop their grammatical structure, semantic knowledge and creative ability as well as lexical items.
ABSTRACT This study examined common characteristics in Sukuma-Nyamwezi transitional dialects with a goal to examine similarities and differences in lexical and phonetic systems of Ndala and Isikisya dialects of Sukuma and Nyamwezi languages and to assess the level of relatedness between Ndala and Isikisya dialects of Sukuma and Nyamwezi languages respectively. The study employed a descriptive case study design. This design was considered relevant and suitable in trying to understand in detai...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of code-switching used in modern taarab to Swahili language in Tanzania.Specifically the study aimed to asses the transformation of language use in taarad since 1990 up to 2015, to investigate the ways code-switching happens in modern taarab and to find out the impacts of code-switching as it is used in modern taarab to Swahili language. The study used a qualitative research approach in data collection and data analysis.The sample si...
ABSTRACT . This study examined the social and economic factors for Makonde language maintenance in Mkoma village in Newala Tanzania. It also examined contexts of languages use and significance of minority languages. The study employed qualitative and quantitative approaches. Forty respondents who are native Makonde speakers living in Mkoma village participated in the research. Fifteen respondents participated in oral interviews and twenty five participated by filling up questionnaires. The ma...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of eclectic approach in teacher education in an ESL situation. The effectiveness was measured based on the awareness of English tutors and student-teachers of eclectic approach and on the extent the tutors applied the approach in the English language classroom. The focus of the study was on teachers‟ colleges where teachers are prepared professionally. The assumption is that low level of achievement of students in primary and second...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the effectiveness of English songs towards English language teaching to primary school pupils in Tanzania and in Nachingwea District in particular. Specifically the study aimed at examining factors that may bring about effective use of English songs to teach the English language in primary schools. It also assessed the conformity of strategies for using English songs employed by English language teachers to the principles of teaching and learning Eng...
ABSTRACT The focus of the study was to analyze the implication of linguistic features of kitchen party language to the contemporary society of Tanzania. Kitchen parties carry the basic linguistic features with education basis in them. The common opinion obtained during the study through interviews and observations was that kitchen party does a lot to educate an African woman to be both a good wife and a responsible mother. But again language used in kitchen party is characterized by symbolic...
ABSTRACT The study examined gender stereotype portrayal in Tanzania newspapers. The study aimed at examining the way language used in headlines and advertisements of newspapers is influenced by gender stereotype in the society. The study also examined the way pictures associated with advertisements are influenced by gender stereotype. Several headlines and advertisements from newspapers were examined. Also twenty female and twenty male respondents were interviewed to obtain their views conc...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the competence of teachers of English in teaching effectively at public primary schools. The study‟s problem evolved around the relation that exists between competence of teachers and their effectiveness to transfer to pupils‟ measurable Linguistic components mastery. The problem was built on known pupils‟ low proficiency in English, but uknown about teachers to teach effectively. The variables that were answered to establish teachers‟effectiveness were a...
ABSTRACT The study investigated challenges of the language used in campaigns against elephantiasis and elephantiasis of scrotum in Tanzania, using a case study of Kisarawe and Rufiji districts in the coast region. The researcher worked on three objectives which were; to examine whether the language used by campaigners against elephantiasis and elephantiasis of scrotum is understood by local coastal communities; to find out the stereotyping and stigmatising language as used by local coastal c...
ABSTRACT The study intended to examine the realization of Communicative Language Teaching (henceforth CLT) principles in Form One English language textbook issued for Ordinary secondary schools in Tanzania. The study set out three specific objectives which are: To examine how the issued Form One English language textbook reflects Communicative Approach (henceforth CA) principles, to examine communicative activities present in the Form One English language textbook and to assess teachers‟ v...
ABSTRACT This study entitled “Assessment of Use of Language Techniques that Promote Creative Writing among Secondary School Students: A Case of Tunduru” was guided by four specific objectives which were: to explore the techniques and approaches that English language teachers used to promote creative writing among secondary school students; to identify the self-motivated techniques that students used to develop creative writing and thereby enrich their mastery of the English language; to ...
Le Préambule Les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) sont un agent de changement dans l’économie de l’information en émergence. Elles ont révolutionné la société quoique de façon moins prononcée dans les pays en voie de développement où l’écart entre les TIC et le développement est très important. Les TIC ont imprégné tous les aspects de la vie et ont mis l’homme au-delà de ses capacités. Chaque aspect de l’activité humaine a fait d’én...
ABSTRACT A literary text can be analysed in different ways; this research though wanted to analyse the criticism about a successful debut novel to determine if any meaningful deductions could be made from the discourse of reviewers about a text. The reviews about Kamphoer by Francois Smith were perused to find elements that could provide guidelines to amateur authors to write and publish a debut successfully. Kamphoer was selected because it created a stir in the media. It ran into five editi...
ABSTRACT Ahmadou Kourouma is an Ivoirien writer of Malinke origin. He has written FOUR novels, THREE children novel and a drama. His French is acclaimed to be original and reflects a lot of Malinke idiolects. His syntactic construct has both French and Malinke features. Using functionalist approach, we analysed his works for translation purposes. We found out that beyond ordinary "significant" his constructs demand the consideration of "significant superieur" or super significant that is, mea...