In 2014, the Ministry of Education introduced a revised education curriculum, which saw the use of local languages as mediums of instruction as well as languages for teaching initial literacy from Pre-School to Grade 4. The Permanent Secretary said that the purposes of the review included among...
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...
Download PDF ↓Zambia, being a multilingual country has had a challenge in choosing the appropriate medium of instruction for initial literacy skills in Primary Schools.Regional Official Languages, (ROL’s) are used as MoI because of the assumption that they are mutually intelligible with the dialects they...
Download PDF ↓The study revisited the post-independence reason for the need to use local languages in schools. One of the prominent reasons cited was a cultural one in that the teaching of local languages would help promote Zambian culture and maintain its heritage. The purpose of the study was to assess the...
Download PDF ↓The purpose of this paper, The World View Through English and Bemba proverbs: A Literary Perspective was to find out if the same kernel of poetics and world view could be found under the two conditions and languages. In order to reach this investigation, the data on proverbs were required for...
Download PDF ↓This study examined the discoursal features of the parliamentary debate session of 15th March 2013 in which the immunity of the Fourth Republican President of Zambia was lifted, in order to establish the ideological implications of these features. The study was guided by the critical discourse...
Download PDF ↓This dissertation is based on a study that was carried out amongst the Indian community living in Lusaka in 2014. The study was aimed at analysing the main forms of adult literacy and cultural education for the Indian youth in Lusaka. The study was based on four objectives: 1. To identify the...
Communication is a tool and a vehicle where humans interact through patterns, meaning and behaviour. And as humans transit patterns, meaning and behaviour which consequently is their culture, a culture with effective communication channels and strategies in its social system dominantly transmits...
Download PDF ↓Unfamiliarity with the language of teaching is blamed for the high illiteracy rate among people who live in nations in which hundreds of languages are spoken. For a critical test of the importance of the language in which initial reading is taught we took the Zambian situation as a natural...
Many ethnic groups of Africa, the Tonga people inclusive, predominantly prefer culture-bound and meaningful personal names. African, names define who one is, where one comes from, make reference to events surrounding one‘s birth and identify that which the namer(s) and bearer(s) hates or...
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