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There has been a tremendous decline in the writing skills of Grade 12s. It has been noted that compositions produced by these learners are usually full of errors. As a language teacher for nineteen years, I have observed that despite measures put in place to improve writing, it is not known what...

English Language teaching has undergone noticeable pedagogical changes over time. From the late 1960s hitherto, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach has been adopted for use in the syllabi of English as Foreign Language (EFL) as well as English as Second Language (ESL) contexts. The...

This study was undertaken in order to establish the utilization of emergent literacy skills with a grade one Physical Education class in selected primary schools in Lundazi district of Zambia. A qualitative design was used and employed a case study to a sample of 80. Purposive sampling was...

The main purpose of the study was to establish the reasons for the poor performance of pupils in selected high schools of Chipata District in summary. Specifically, the study was based on the premises that performance of pupils in English, and summary in particular, is a result of several...

This dissertation reports a study that was carried out to investigate how reading comprehension was taught in selected secondary schools of Lusaka district in Zambia. Data was collected from three secondary schools-all single sex schools. From the three, one was a boy’s school and the other two...

This study involved investigating the extent to which the new Approved Silozi Orthography was being used by both teachers and learners in the teaching and learning of Silozi at Grades 10 to 12 in selected schools in Mongu district. Specifically, the research sought to determine whether or not the...

In recent years, Grade 12 French examination results in Zambia have been getting poor and poorer. Statistics by the Examinations Council of Zambia, (E.C.Z, 2008) indicate that French examinations results drop each year by a significant percentage in terms of pupils’ performance. This being a...

This study sought to establish the effectiveness of teaching indigenous languages under the team teaching arrangement. The research methodology of the study involved both qualitative and quantitative data which was collected through questionnaires, lesson observations, curriculum materials and...