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The Functions Of Olutura Sounds
(Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (SAS Publishers), 2018)
The aim of this study was to identify the sounds that occur in Olutura so as to develop a phonetic inventory and to show how these sounds function in this dialect. A purposive sampling technique was used to identify native ...
The Morphophonemics of Vowel Compensatory Lengthening in Ekegusii
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2013-09)
Literature shows that not much is known about the prosodic systems in Ekegusii, a Bantu language spoken by about 2.2 million
people in south western Kenya. This paper presents an analysis of vowel compensatory lengthening ...
Radicalization as a Functional Aspect of Crime
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2017-11)
Radicalization into extremism and terrorism is a controversial topic amongst scholars on the approaches
used to understand the phenomenon. This paper examine some theories on the subject and the debate
raging amongst ...
Crop Diversification as a Determinant of Household Decision-Making in the Production of Roselle Plant in Mwea Sub-County, Kenya
(International Journal of Social S ciences and Information Technology, 2018-05)
This study sought to analyze crop diversification as a determinant of household decision making towards production of the Roselle plant. The study employed a stratified sampling technique which involves dividing ...
Uncovering Cloze Testing Practices in Selected Practice Papers for Primary Schools in Kenya
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2016)
Reading comprehension is probably the most prominently tested skill in upper primary classes in Kenya. Most test papers, for instance, comprise a fifteen-item cloze test, a fictional passage and a factual one both of which ...
An Evaluation of the Treatment of Application Letters and Reports in Core Kenyan form Three English Course Books
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017)
Functional writing is an important skill since it involves writing for real life purposes. It should
fit the intended purpose, audience and context. Despite the centrality of this form of writing,
it has been performed ...
From Technauriture to Cultauriture: Developing a Coherent Digitisation Paradigm for Enhancing Cultural Impac
(International Journal of Society, Culture and Language, 2017-07)
Developing suitable frameworks and paradigms (theoretical
and practical) is a challenge for all disciplines in the face of
rapid technological changes. Technological advances are
fundamentally changing discourse in many ...
Kenyan English Monophthongs: An Element Theory Approach
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017)
This paper describes the acoustic characteristics of the non-ethnically marked Kenyan English (KenE) monophthongs and uses those characteristics to identify the phonemes and also to determine the internal Element Theory ...
Development of language materials for national development: A language management perspective
(International Journal of Education and Research, 2013-07)
Learning resources need to be revised periodically to reflect the changing socio-cultural,
economic, political and technological realities in the society. The current Primary English
Syllabus was revised in 2002. Yet, ...
Lexical Change: Naming of the Months of the Year in Ekegusii
(Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2016)
This paper documents the native terms used to name the months of the year in EkeGusii. EkeGusii is a language spoken by a Bantu speaking community (AbaGusii) in the South Western part of Kenya. It is a language with a rich ...