The aim of the study was to establish the perceptions of various stakeholders on the effectiveness of the implementation of the new language policy of using zonal languages as the Language of Instructions in Grades 1-4 by grade teachers in Emmasdale zone in Lusaka district. One of the universal...
Download PDF ↓The aim of this study was to establish teachers’ perceptions on the effect of using chinyanja as a medium of instruction on reading levels of grade four (4) learners in a multilingual Lusaka District. The research design was a case study. Qualitative methodology was used to collect and analyze...
Rwanda has had French as the National language and Medium of Instruction before and after gaining her independence from Belgium. The country migrated from French as a Medium of Instruction to English in 2009 and has continued to use English as the official language and the Medium of Instruction...
This study examined interrogatives in Tonga. In particular, the current study undertook to understand the phonological aspects of interrogative markers, morphological aspects, and their syntactic distributions as well as the role that semantics plays in interrogative constructions within the...
Download PDF ↓The study is embedded in onomastics, a study of proper names in all aspects from different typologies. The study aimed at establishing the morphological structure, social semiotic aspects and etymology of the Bemba Christian theonyms. Data were drawn from Kasama and Mungwi districts through...
Download PDF ↓This study investigated the campaign discourse of the 2016 presidential elections in Zambia with a view to showing how rhetorical devices were employed by one Opposition candidate in order to achieve persuasion in his campaign discourse. Specifically, the study focused on the campaign speeches by...
Download PDF ↓Communication is important in an organization because it enables the organization to give information to both the internal and external public. Although communication is at the heart of the school life there are communication problems in multicultural schools because Principals, Teachers and...
Zambia is a multicultural and multi-ethnic nation with 73 ethnic groups which equate to 73 languages spoken across the country while 7 languages are used as medea of instruction for the first four years in the primary schools. The policy has been criticised as being monoglossic. Studies in Zambia...
Drawing on both lexical morphology and lexical semantics, the study discursively interrogates the outcome lexical items of the social media discourses and self-asserting narratives. An attempt is made to discursively examine the interplay between technology and grammar. Thus the study brings...
Download PDF ↓Couched within the broader context of social semiotics and morphological theory, the current study is aimed at providing a linguistic analysis of radio station names in Zambia, as well as establishing the social semiotic forces that undergird the naming systems of radio stations. This was born...