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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...

The study analyzed the strategies teachers use to integrate children’s home languages in the teaching process in selected preschools in Luampa district of Zambia. The study sought to address five research objectives: the first aimed to establish the language situation in preschool classes of...

Zambia teaches English language as a foreign and second language within its broad framework of post-colonial multilingual Zambia and late-modernity. This scenario came about because of the fact that Zambia and many other countries in the Sub Saharan region of Africa were British colonies in the...

This study examined formal teacher competence and its effect on learner reading achievement in multilingual learning contexts of Livingstone District in Zambia. Guided by the Expertise, Translanguaging, and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) theories, the study addressed the following...

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...

Namibian schools face challenges with English as a language of teaching and learning, especially for transitional grade learners, leading to consideration of translanguaging strategies by the government. However, the implementation of translanguaging faces resistance in multilingual classrooms....

This study investigated the campaign discourse of the 2016 presidential elections in Zambia with a view to showing how rhetorical devices were employed by one Opposition candidate in order to achieve persuasion in his campaign discourse. Specifically, the study focused on the campaign speeches by...

Zambia is a multicultural and multi-ethnic nation with 73 ethnic groups which equate to 73 languages spoken across the country while 7 languages are used as medea of instruction for the first four years in the primary schools. The policy has been criticised as being monoglossic. Studies in Zambia...

This study explored classroom discourse patterns of perceived difficult topics in biology such as classification of living organisms, mitosis and meiosis at senior secondary level in selected secondary schools of Luapula Province in Zambia. A collective case study design was used and data was...

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...