ABSTRACT The study focused on teachers in the Dunkwa Senior High Technical School in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality. The main study was to identify the leadership styles and the relationships with teacher performance. The specific objectives were to explore the factors that influence leadership styles, the effects on teacher motivations, to examine the performance of teachers. The mixed methods of research were used as the research design where the data was analysed qualitatively...
Radio stations have used jingles for environmental education and communication in Nigeria for decades though not much has been done to study the impact of such use—which is the purpose of this article. Through 12 focus group discussions (FGDs) in six local government areas of Oyo state, Nigeria, interviews with the program directors of two radio stations, and a questionnaire administered with 18 program producers from the stations, the researcher found that producers and directors had full ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate how television content is used to promote CSR in Ghana, using Vodafone Healthline television show as a case for detailed investigation. The Vodafone Healthline television show is a flagship television show produced and sponsored by the Vodafone Ghana foundation. This study explored how Vodafone Healthline is produced; the contribution of Healthline to the promotion of Vodafone’s CSR activities, and viewers’ perspectives of the Healthline te...
Abstract This paper focuses on the songs of the Kegites’ Club, a socio-cultural group at university and polytechnic campuses in Nigeria with the aim of identifying their themes alongside the Christian songs from which they are derived. The analysis of the songs is based on Dell Hymes’ Ethnographic Framework, which identifies contextual variables that account for the various factors that are involved in different communicative events. Thirty songs, comprising 11 English versions and 19 Yo...
ABSTRACT One of the most important means people can take part in decisions that affect their lives and hold their elected representatives accountable is through elections. Conflicts in Africa have been largely intra-state with election issues as the causal core and have consequently claimed thousands of lives, raising challenges for the African Union (AU) and the international community. Ghana has conducted several successful elections since 1992, but the country continues to face many threat...
ABSTRACT The work aims at a qualitative study of Dangme klama songs. The study looked at the style, literary devices, meanings and moral lessons the songs convey to its audience. The study reveals that the songs have many literary devices such as metaphors, parallelisms, repetition and so on. It was found out that there are a lot of respectable literature worthy of consideration that cannot be pushed or glossed over. In translating the songs from Dangme into English, a conscious effort...
ABSTRACT The study analyzed the concord errors committed by students of Akatsi No. 1 Junior High School. Its main objective was to find the types of concord errors they commit and the possible factors that account for the errors. Data were collected from JHS 2 and 3 students of Akatsi No. 1 Junior High School by way of questionnaire and in-class essays and analyzed. The findings revealed that the concord errors found in students’ writing were many, including subject-verb concord errors. T...
ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to find out perception of teachers on the teaching of ICT in basic schools in Atwima Nwabiagya District of Ashanti Region. Specifically, it was designed to elicit respondents’ view on the importance of teaching ICT. It also sought to determine the challenges that affect the effective teaching of ICT. More so, the study sought to examine the support the teachers receive from school administrators with respect to the teaching of ICT. Fifty seven ICT bas...
ABSTRACT The providers of health education (HE) have generally included nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and government organisations (GOs). To avoid the duplication of effort and ensure efficiency, it has become necessary for NGOs and GOs to collaborate in the provision of health services. The purpose of this study was to determine stakeholder perception on factors influencing collaboration between GOs and NGOs based on organisations sampled from the Tema Metropolis in Ghana. From the as...
ABSTRACT This study investigated Property concepts in Ga using the Framework-free Grammatical theory (Haspelmath 2008). The study examined three main syntactic categories namely adjectives, verbs and nouns that are used to expressed property concepts in Ga. The morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of these three categories were investigated. Morphologically, most of the adjectives used as property concepts agree with the head noun in number, with the exception of those adje...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on sociolinguistic analysis of address terms in Akyem Asuboa in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It seeks to explore the various categories of address terms, identify some inappropriate address terms, explore the effects of inappropriate address terms and examine people‟s reaction towards the inappropriate use of address terms among the people of Akyem Asuboa. Qualitative method is employed for an indepth understanding of the research. Twenty (20) participants ...
ABSTRACT This work looks at some of the problems associated with reading and comprehension among students in Ndewura Jakpa Senior High Technical School. It is basically a qualitative study of reading comprehension difficulties among students at Ndewura Jakpa Senior High Technical School. It will also suggest ways of enhancing students‟ abilities in comprehension. The purpose of the study is to investigate causes of students‟ poor performance in reading and comprehension, its effect...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of the study was to investigate the rhythm and stress used in the educated Ghanaian English speech with focus on parliamentary discourse. Descriptive and qualitative approaches were adopted for the study. The Members of Parliament (MPs) of the 4th Republic of 2006 formed the population of the study. The number of MPs used for the study was sixty. The instrument used for the study was a recording of the parliamentary discourse. Features of the rhythm of Ghanaian Engli...
ABSTRACT Policy failure has been a concern for social scientists for some time now, yet there are no clear answers as to why certain policies do not achieve their intended purpose. Moreover, studies on policy implementation in service institutions neglect the audit service. This study investigated the challenges of policy implementation in the Ghana Audit Service (GAS) with emphasis on bureaucracy in the Central Region of Ghana. The study was a cross sectional survey and was quantitative in n...
ABSTRACT The poor hygiene and sanitary practices along the food production chain in the Kumasi Metropolis contribute to unacceptable level of meat and poultry contamination. This poses a health risk to consumers. To this effect, the aim of the study was to investigate into food hygiene, knowledge, attitudes and practices of meat and poultry vendors in the Kumasi central market. The study used a descriptive survey to investigate into food hygiene knowledge, attitudes and processes of mea...