Simataa, Agnes A.; Nyathi, Sifiso F.(University of Namibia, 2016)
This paper emanates from an earlier study, which examined the views of
Namibian Grade 11 and 12 teachers of English as a Second Language
(ESL) on the use of English literature in ESL classrooms. The aim of the
paper is ...
In Namibia most teachers and learners are not conversant enough to
teach and learn school subjects, including English, through the English
medium. Poor learner performance in the year-end examinations in
English has ...
This paper examines the concept of the inscription of the female body,
and the way language used by men for such inscription shows distinct
difference on women compared to that used on men. Using different film
clips, ...
This paper seeks to examine how women express themselves in Swahili
through household cultural artefacts in Tanzania. The paper focuses on
words or texts written on the cultural artefacts, especially food covers
and ...
In East Africa, an epistle as a base for literary analysis is not common. It
appears, scholars who have analysed works of fiction or drama relating
to HIV/AIDS scourge, have not considered letters inserted in those ...
Interpreting and translation are still positioned by some scholars under
the broader discipline of linguistics as aspects of applied linguistics, while
others view interpreting as a sub-discipline within the broader ...
This paper reports on a study conducted in 2011 with undergraduate
students at the University of Namibia (UNAM). One of the aims of the
study was to assess the vocabulary and academic literacy levels of the
students, ...
Hamakali, Hafeni P.; Mbenzi, Petrus A.(University of Namibia, 2016)
English is the official language of Namibia. The majority of Namibians
have to learn English as a second language because their mother tongue
is either one of the Namibian indigenous languages or a different foreign
language. ...
Hamakali, Hafeni P.; Lumbu, Simon D.(University of Namibia, 2016)
This conceptual paper is an analysis of the role of alternative assessment
(AA) tools in English language instruction. AA tools tend to be less formal
than traditional testing; they gather information rather that at one ...
The 20th and now 21st centuries have witnessed the outpour of satirical
works that are purported to be portraying and discussing Africa’s
development problems. Certainly this is the case in East Africa where,
for example, ...
This article explores the role of heritage as a motivation for learning
Kiswahili as a foreign language at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in
South Africa. Since publication of the works of Gardner and Lambert on
language ...