The purpose of the study was to analyse the translanguaging practices used by lecturers in first year classrooms at a public university in Zambia. The study was guided by three objectives as follows : to analyse the translanguaging practices lecturers use in their lectures at a selected public...
Download PDF ↓This study investigated some linguistic variations of the two languages namely, Ila spoken in Namwala, Itezhi-Tezhi, Mumbwa districts in the central parts of Zambia and Tonga spoken in Gwembe, Sinazongwe and Maamba districts in the southern and central parts of Zambia. The aim of the study was to...
Concern over the quality of teaching in schools has existed for ‘as long as the schools themselves’ (Cruickshank, 1992). Today, parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders are expending significant energy critiquing non-native English-speaking teachers’ quality and arguing for the improvement...
Download PDF ↓This study examined interrogatives in Tonga. In particular, the current study undertook to understand the phonological aspects of interrogative markers, morphological aspects, and their syntactic distributions as well as the role that semantics plays in interrogative constructions within the...
Download PDF ↓The study is embedded in onomastics, a study of proper names in all aspects from different typologies. The study aimed at establishing the morphological structure, social semiotic aspects and etymology of the Bemba Christian theonyms. Data were drawn from Kasama and Mungwi districts through...
Download PDF ↓Communication is important in an organization because it enables the organization to give information to both the internal and external public. Although communication is at the heart of the school life there are communication problems in multicultural schools because Principals, Teachers and...
Drawing on both lexical morphology and lexical semantics, the study discursively interrogates the outcome lexical items of the social media discourses and self-asserting narratives. An attempt is made to discursively examine the interplay between technology and grammar. Thus the study brings...
Download PDF ↓Couched within the broader context of social semiotics and morphological theory, the current study is aimed at providing a linguistic analysis of radio station names in Zambia, as well as establishing the social semiotic forces that undergird the naming systems of radio stations. This was born...
Couched within the broader context of social semiotics and morphological theory, the current study is aimed at providing a linguistic analysis of radio station names in Zambia, as well as establishing the social semiotic forces that undergird the naming systems of radio stations. This was born...
Download PDF ↓In Zambia, the language in Education policy is that from Pre- school to grade four, the medium of classroom instruction is the Zonal language spoken in that region (source: National Literacy Framework,2013). The move towards this policy was necessitated by the issue of low literacy levels...
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