ABSTRACT The term, washback or backwash is used in Applied Linguistics to refer to the influence high-stakes tests have on teaching and learning of second/foreign language. The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) English language tests administered by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) are high-stakes tests which have very important consequences for the junior and senior high school leavers respectively....
ABSTRACT This thesis seeks to identify the narrators and narrative skills the two writers, Ferdinand Oyono and Mongo Beti used in their books, Une vie de boy and Pauvre Christ de Bomba respectively, to achieve their objectives. Naïve narrators recount events plainly as they unfold not being conscious of the effect of what they say and are hence used by writers to achieve their objectives of informing and educating their readers. Matured, they would be careful with the narration of events of ...
ABSTRACT The study set out to examine the credit risk management practices of the Amantin and Kasei Community Bank Limited. A mix of qualitative and quantitative research approaches was adopted in a cross-sectional research design. The General Manager, as well as the 15 loan officers for all the loan schemes, the Internal Auditors, Head of Operations and Accounts Department staff were purposively sampled for the study because of their direct involvement in credit management. Primary data on t...
ABSTRACT The works of Aristophanes have caused some modern writers to refer to Euripides as a misogynist and, at the same time, Aristophanes has not been taken seriously when it comes to the presentation of women in a misogynistic or feministic perspective because he is a comic writer. Due to this, scholars have refused to put these two writers on the same platform to see the underlining intentions of their presentations. Even though Aristophanes’ works are comedies and every depiction cann...
ABSTRACT The need to do business ethically connot be understated. Besides, managing ethics in business is an uphill task. It for this reasonthat this study was conducted to confirm how ethics is managed in the operations of the Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira Teachers’ Cooperative Credit Union. Participants of the study comprised 14 staff of the Cooperative and 350 members. Staffs of the union were selected purposefully and contributors were selected through the simple random sampling method. A...
ABSTRACT The importance of hotels as central in the development of tourism cannot be underestimated - because they serve as the home base of the tourist (Fridgen, 1991) and also contribute to about 30 percent of the tourist's budget (Lundgren, 1973). This study investigates the causes of low patronage of hotels in the region. The survey covered a sample of 135 guests in 18 hotels and 18 hoteliers or their representatives. Descriptive as well as inferential statistics including the muIticriter...
ABSTRACT Existing studies on Ịzọn language have concentrated on unilingual application of traditional grammar in constructing well-formed sentences, thereby neglecting critical descriptions of the ways morphosyntactic features ensure the derivation of convergent structures. A contrastive examination of English, (a standard for universal grammar analysis) and Ịzọn languages can properly characterise these syntactically significant features. This work, therefore, investigates the morph...
ABSTRACT One unique characteristic feature of the Yoruba language, spoken in South Western Nigeria is that when words are borrowed into it from other languages, such words are nativised. Some scholars have discussed the rules that apply in such cases. However, this kind of study has not been extended to Arabic names borne by Yoruba people (to the best of my knowledge). This paper therefore discusses the rules that apply on some of these names. Thirty Arabic names are purposively selected for ...
Abstract: Different researches have brought to the fore a number of remarkable contributions of the Bayt Al-Māl as a fiscal policy in the redistribution of wealth. In Nigeria, a few studies have been undertaken to evaluate the evolution and state of the Bayt Al-Māl. None of the studies however have undertaken an analysis of the operation and impact of the Bayt Al-Māl in the town of Saki as a mechanism for the redistribution of wealth. Therefore, this paper examines the activities and impa...
ABSTRACT What government does/fails to do is conveyed to the public largely by records and information of various types in the public service, without which there will be no government. When records are poorly managed, much time is involved in sorting and locating needed information from large volumes of records. The rate of records misplaced or lost from which useful information for decision making is usually obtained makes it difficult to provide concise and up-to-date records of both past...
ABSTRACT The Linguist List Web site is a forum where professionals exchange academic information, especially those related to conferences, calls for papers for journals and books, mailing lists and job opportunities. While all these are constructed in scholarly language, the ones with the most distinguished linguistic form, often with pragmatic meaning, whose proper interpretation has implications for linguists‟ careers, are calls for journal articles posted by publishers. Scholarly inform...
Abstract The study set out to examine the extent of the coverage given by the mass media to women in agriculture and agribusiness in view of statistics indicating that women constitute an overwhelming proportion of the people in that sector. Based in Nigeria, the study analysed the content of 282 stories on the agricultural pages of two selected national newspapers, 187 pictures illustrating some of the stories and 48 agricultural broadcasts from two radio stations. The study revealed that t...
ABSTRACT As in other parts of the world, the Nigerian news media, in its coverage of electioneering, has been accused of marginalizing female politicians. To establish the veracity of this claim, we examined how Nigerian newspapers reported campaign activities of the major presidential candidates during Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election. Using the theories of media framing and market-oriented journalism, we undertook content analysis of 194 editions of three randomly selected newspapers�...
ABSTRACT This study was set to address the impact of using L1 (mother tongue) as medium of instruction in an L2 (English language) classroom in the upper basic level of St Aidan’s Anglican Basic School in Wa, the upper West Region of Ghana. The study focused on the reasons and effects of using L1 as a medium of instruction in L2 classrooms. The study adopted the qualitative research approach and used interviews and observation as tools in collecting and analyzing the data. In all, twenty-s...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of organizational culture on organizational performance at CAL Bank. Specifically, the study sought to find out the kinds of organizational culture practiced in CAL Bank, assess how Cal bank determine its performance indicators and finally examine the effects of CAL bank's culture on its performance. This study employed the case study design. The dependent variable in this study was organizational performance whilst that of the independent variable was...