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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...

The current study examined Silozi euphemisms from a socio-pragmatic perspective within the framework of theories of Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics. Precisely, the study applied speech act theory, politeness theory, face theory and conversational analysis theories. This exercise was done in order...

This study investigated the availability of human and material resources required for implementing the Zambia Primary English Course. In addition to this, the study tried to find how the available human and material resources were utilised to teach reading in selected grades. The whole exercise...

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...

The dissertation reports an investigation of the type of questions and pattern of questioning used by the grade Eleven "Literature in English" teacher in Zambia. The marked dlfficulty in using higher level cognitive skills in answering the questions on the Grade Twelve school-leaving examination...

This study attempted to find out whether the pupils who were taught reading comprehension in Bemba using the discourse analysis strategy would obtain significantly higher scores in a post-test comprising the conventional and the discourse analysis questions, than those using the conventional...

The study aimed at exploring the factors and the nature of the low reading achievement among grade two (2) pupils. Sixty grade two (2) pupils, thirty girls and thirty boys, comprised the samples while six basic school Head teachers, six School In-service Coordinators (SICs) and seventy-six grade...

The dissertation reports an investigation of the relationship between the phrasing of examination questions and candidates' interpretation and response. The investigation emanated from a suspicion that the inappropriate phrasing of questions was one of the major causes of candidates' poor...