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This study examined the syntactic processes of determination and modification as they apply to English and Tonga by carrying out a contrastive analysis of the two processes in the two languages. The exercise was undertaken in order to establish whether or not there were any similarities and...

This study mainly focused on the effects of using Nyanja language as a medium of teaching initial literacy in a predominantly Soli speaking area of Lwimba in Chongwe district. The study was mainly a case study at Chongwe and Lwimba basic schools in Chongwe district. The population comprised all...

This study set out to investigate the attitude of both parents and teachers towards the use of English as medium of instruction at lower basic level in Livingstone and Namwala districts of Southern Province. Secondly, the study sought to establish whether parents and teachers were in any way...

This study has explored some aspects of the semantics and syntax of the eight Lozi adverbial clause types studied. Using syntax and semantic analyses, the study sought to find out whether or not the semantics and syntax of the eight studied adverbial clauses in Lozi had a formal regular pattern...

The main aim of the research was to find out the effects of using Nyanja as a language of initial literacy in a predominantly Tumbuka-speaking area, namely, in Lundazi rural schools. The general public in Lundazi rural areas claimed that although Nyanja was used as a medium for teaching initial...

The study was mainly focused on Learning to Read in English in Different Environments. The study addressed itself to the two major questions. These were: a) in what environment does the Grade 3 learner in public and private schools learn how to read in English? b) how is reading in English taught...

This work examined cohesion and coherence in the written English produced by some undergraduate students at the University of Zambia, Lusaka. The exercise was done to test the theoretical position that there is a relationship between cohesion and coherence in English and to establish the...

This study investigated the relationship between thematic progression patterns and English discourse coherence in the written pieces of discourse produced by a sample of University of Zambia students registered for the 2009 Academic Year in the School of Education and the School of Humanities and...

Zambia is an Anglophone country, resulting from its colonial past, and hence English is its official language. This means that high school leavers need to have mastered all the receptive and productive skills in the use of English required for effective communication in the real world outside...

The purpose of this study was to establish the level of implementation of the communicative approach to English language teaching and possible constraints expressed by teachers. The study focused on four areas, i.e., the training that teachers had received, the presence of real life communication...