The current study examined the socio-pragmatic aspect of linguistic avoidance strategies in relation to Silozi taboo language.A socio-pragmatic study deals with communication in its sociocultural context. Linguistic avoidance strategies refer to goal- oriented communicative behaviour where...
Download PDF ↓This study aimed at assessing the communication strategies used by the Government of the Republic of Zambia in stakeholder mobilisation for Infrastructure Development and Maintenance of classrooms in schools of Chinsali District of Zambia. Areas of interest included: the key messages used and in...
Download PDF ↓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...
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