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This study aimed at assessing final year student teachers’ preparedness to use the communicative approach to teach English as a second language at Kwame Nkrumah University. Three objectives guided this study, i.e. to establish final year student teachers’ use of the characteristics of CLT to...

French has been taught in Zambia as a Foreign Language even before independence. Manchishi and Chishiba (2016) indicate that French was introduced in African schools, as a subject, in the educational system of the then Northern Rhodesia in 1953. At that time, French was offered at Munali Boys...

Literacy is at the heart of a learners‟ ability to learn and succeed in the school and beyond. It is essential that all learners from early childhood to Grade 12 are given the best chance to master literacy so that they can meet the challenges of the 21st century. Historically, Zambia has been...

English has always been the language of government business, judiciary, media and employment and a compulsory subject from grade five to the final year of secondary education while Zambian languages are used as medium of instruction from grade 1-4 and as a subject from grade 5-12 and have largely...

This study explored teacher perception of the effectiveness of English composition teaching strategies used at grade twelve level with particular reference to two public secondary schools in Monze District of Southern province. This was accomplished through the study objectives which were:...

Inclusive education is the type of education that puts all the pupils regardless of their physical or mental disabilities to learn together. For example, the deaf learners put in the same class with the learners who are not deaf. The study aimed at analyzing language practices in selected...

The purpose of this study was to assess Grade Two learners' ability to transfer literacy skills acquired in a Zambian language to English by the end of second grade. The research adopted a descriptive case study design in which the mixed methods approach was employed. 75 Grade Two learners were...

Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6...

Considering that Zambia is a multilingual country and that all the classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6...

The purpose of this study was to establish the effects of transition of language of instruction (L.O.I) on learner centred teaching in grade five in selected rural primary schools in Chipata district, Zambia. The objectives of the study were: to determine how the transition of L.O.I from Nyanja...