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Performance in English Language has been a source of concern for a long time in Zambian secondary schools. The Examinations Council of Zambia reports from 2014 to 2021 have indicated that many learners perform poorly in English. For this reason, the study endeavoured to investigate the reason...

In Zambia policies on ME are available in policy documents such as ‘Educating Our future of 1996’, “Focus on learning 1992’ and ‘Education reform of 1977’. Despite the availability of these ME policies, their implementation in primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary institutions is not...

English Language is the official language of Zambia which has to be taught in schools for learners to gain communicative competences. It is widely used in government, education and the business world. Because of such importance, it has a higher status quo compared to indigenous languages....

In the present-day multilingual Zambian society, multilingual classes are unavoidable. All classes have learners with diverse linguistic backgrounds. In Zambia, the language of instruction from grade five to tertiary level is English language and the recommended methodology in the Zambia English...

This qualitative study examined the contribution of Africans to the growth and development of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Luapula Province, Zambia, over the period 1921 2021. The study documented the church’s history, explored the role of local Adventists, identified challenges faced, and...

This study aimed at exploring how pre-service teachers applied information processing theory (IPT) strategies in teaching English grammar to facilitate meaningful learning in secondary school students during their teaching practice. In particular, the study explored how pre-service teachers...

The close proximity of the Bemba and the Mambwe speech communities was the prime motivation of this study. The study sought to compare Bemba and Mambwe at phonological, morphological and lexical levels. The study used qualitative research design because its focus was on words rather than on...

This study compared learners’ initial reading achievements in letter knowledge, phonics and decoding skills on their entry and at the end of Grade One in Nyanja language of Lusaka and Katete districts. Speakers and non-speakers of the language of instruction in multilingual classes vis-à-vis...

This study, “An Investigation into the Inter-relatedness among Ila, Kaonde, Lenje, Nyanja, Sala, Soli, and Tonga” involved a lexicostatistical survey on the inter-relatedness of the languages mentioned above. According to Doke (1954), Bantu Botatwe refers to the language group comprising the...

This PhD thesis involved conducting a phonological and morphological analysis of loanwords from English into Icibemba, a major language spoken in the Northern, Copperbelt and Luapula provinces of Zambia as well as parts of Muchinga and Central provinces. The main aim of this research was to...