This study investigated secondary school English language teachers’ classroom practices in the assessment of oral language skills in Tanzania. The study was informed by a phenomenological research design. Data were collected in six schools through interviews with eight (8) teachers, classroom observation and documentary review. All interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data analysis was conducted through a thematic approach. Findings revealed that classroom oral language assessment in secondary schools was sparingly conducted in the studied schools. Where it was conducted, it was dominated by debates, group discussions and classroom presentations, dialogues, dictation, interviews, questions and answers and computerassisted assessment. It was further foundthat smaller classes benefitted from oral language assessment than larger classes. Teachers with larger classes were hampered from conducting oral language assessments due to time limitations. The paper concludes that students’ oral language skills can better be
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Chidimma U. E. Inyima, Onyebuchi Nwosu, Immaculate N. Dona-Ezenne
The novel coronavirus (SAR-COV-2) and its attendant respiratory disease, COVID-19, said to have originated in Wuhan, China in December, 2019 has become a global concern with far-reaching impact on all facets of human life. Its impact on the English language can be seen in the emergence of new forms of expressions, extension of the meaning of existing words and the resuscitation of hitherto not commonly used expressions. A number of these innovations and usages affect the English language generally, yet language use is contextbound revealing the cultural realities of its users and their environment so that language at all times exhaustively catalogues the things, events and processes in its environment of use (Carrol, 1966:102). This study adopts the Functionalist Approach to investigate the linguistic impact of COVID-19 discourse on the Nigerian variety of the English language using data from Nairaland, an online Nigerian forum. It establishes that COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the character of Nigerian English by way of morphemic coinages, phrasal restructuring, syntactic composition, semantic broadening, lexical resuscitation and acronymic coinages.
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Cet article examine les différentes manières de saluer dans la communauté nuasúɛ. La langue nuasúɛ est parlée dans le Département du Mbam et Inoubou, dans la Région du Centre au Cameroun. L’étude se préoccupe des aspects socio-pragmatiques véhiculés lors des salutations entre les locuteurs du nuasúɛ. Elle utilise les théories de Hymes, l’ethnographie de la communication (Hymes 1962) et les théories des actes de langage (Austin 1970) comme cadre théorique. Les données ont été collectées lors de nos interactions avec les locuteurs natifs du nuasúɛ dans le village Yangben. Ces données ont été transcrites phonétiquement dans le but de constituer un corpus qui est présenté dans cet article sous forme de conversation. Les salutations en nuasúɛ expriment la politesse, l’affection, la tendresse et favorisent les relations interpersonnelles. Elles dépendent des variables sociolingistiques comme le statut social, la profession, le type de relation que les individus entretiennent. L’acte de saluer véhicule la culture nuasúɛ; il contient des informations qui permettent de déduire le niveau d’enracinement culturel de ceux qui se saluent. Le contenu culturel que la salutation véhicule est en voie de disparition au sein de la communauté nuasúɛ et surtout en milieu jeune à cause de l’urbanisation croissante. Cet article contribue à la revitalisation de ces aspects culturels.
{"title":"Etude Socio-pragmatique des Strategies de Salutation dans la Communaute Nuasúє","authors":"Ngoumamba Laurence","doi":"10.56279/jlle.v16i1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/jlle.v16i1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article examine les différentes manières de saluer dans la communauté nuasúɛ. La langue nuasúɛ est parlée dans le Département du Mbam et Inoubou, dans la Région du Centre au Cameroun. L’étude se préoccupe des aspects socio-pragmatiques véhiculés lors des salutations entre les locuteurs du nuasúɛ. Elle utilise les théories de Hymes, l’ethnographie de la communication (Hymes 1962) et les théories des actes de langage (Austin 1970) comme cadre théorique. Les données ont été collectées lors de nos interactions avec les locuteurs natifs du nuasúɛ dans le village Yangben. Ces données ont été transcrites phonétiquement dans le but de constituer un corpus qui est présenté dans cet article sous forme de conversation. Les salutations en nuasúɛ expriment la politesse, l’affection, la tendresse et favorisent les relations interpersonnelles. Elles dépendent des variables sociolingistiques comme le statut social, la profession, le type de relation que les individus entretiennent. L’acte de saluer véhicule la culture nuasúɛ; il contient des informations qui permettent de déduire le niveau d’enracinement culturel de ceux qui se saluent. Le contenu culturel que la salutation véhicule est en voie de disparition au sein de la communauté nuasúɛ et surtout en milieu jeune à cause de l’urbanisation croissante. Cet article contribue à la revitalisation de ces aspects culturels.","PeriodicalId":309195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education","volume":"2747 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127437437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In Tanzania, interpreting mainly takes place in the church setting. English and Kiswahili are the languages mainly used in interpreting in this setting. What remains unclear is whether or not the interpreting services offered in this setting adhere to quality interpreting standards. This paper is concerned with assessing the quality of English-Kiswahili sermon interpreting. Specifically, it sought to find out whether or not there was sense consistency in English-Kiswahili sermon interpreting. The study was done in purposively selected churches in Dar es Salaam. It is guided by sense-based theory. The data was collected through nonparticipant observation and video recording. It was analyzed descriptively. The findings indicate that sense consistency with the original message was not consistently adhered to during the English- Kiswahili sermon interpreting. As a result, there were regular communication breakdowns between the preachers and the audience. The inconsistency established was a result of lack of professional training, because it was found that the interpreters were volunteers without any professional training in interpreting. This paper recommends professional training of interpreters to equip them with linguistic and extra-linguistic knowledge, methodology, skills and ethics of interpreting, which will enable them to provide quality interpreting services in churches as well as in other social settings in Tanzania.
{"title":"Quality Assessment of English-Kiswahili Sermon Interpreting from Selected Churches in Dar es Salaam: The Case of Sense Consistency with the Original Message","authors":"Liyenja Mwinuka, P. Malangwa, Nicholous Asheli","doi":"10.56279/jlle.v16i1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/jlle.v16i1.7","url":null,"abstract":"In Tanzania, interpreting mainly takes place in the church setting. English and Kiswahili are the languages mainly used in interpreting in this setting. What remains unclear is whether or not the interpreting services offered in this setting adhere to quality interpreting standards. This paper is concerned with assessing the quality of English-Kiswahili sermon interpreting. Specifically, it sought to find out whether or not there was sense consistency in English-Kiswahili sermon interpreting. The study was done in purposively selected churches in Dar es Salaam. It is guided by sense-based theory. The data was collected through nonparticipant observation and video recording. It was analyzed descriptively. The findings indicate that sense consistency with the original message was not consistently adhered to during the English- Kiswahili sermon interpreting. As a result, there were regular communication breakdowns between the preachers and the audience. The inconsistency established was a result of lack of professional training, because it was found that the interpreters were volunteers without any professional training in interpreting. This paper recommends professional training of interpreters to equip them with linguistic and extra-linguistic knowledge, methodology, skills and ethics of interpreting, which will enable them to provide quality interpreting services in churches as well as in other social settings in Tanzania.","PeriodicalId":309195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education","volume":"55 15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125559326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Performance in literacy among primary school pupils has sparked both academic and public concerns in Tanzania. This paper appraises the use of holistic and analytical approaches as used in learning English vowel phonemes in Kiswahili and English media primary schools based on performance indicators. Data was collected from Standard Two pupils in two primary schools in Temeke Municipality. An Achievement Test was used in data collection, which was administered to 60 Standard Two pupils. Data analysis was aided by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), Version 18 and Microsoft Excel. Although performance is skewed in favour of English medium primary schools, findings also suggest variations in pupils’ abilities irrespective of school category. This suggests that holistic and analytical approaches work better for some vowel phonemes than for others, and this calls for the need to determine the best practices for specific vowel phonemes.
坦桑尼亚小学生读写能力的表现引起了学术界和公众的关注。本文基于绩效指标评估了斯瓦希里语和英语媒体小学在英语元音音素学习中使用整体分析方法的情况。数据收集自特梅克市两所小学的标准二年级学生。在数据收集中使用了成绩测试，对60名标准二年级学生进行了测试。数据分析由社会科学统计软件包(SPSS)， Version 18和Microsoft Excel辅助。尽管表现偏向于英语中等的小学，但研究结果也表明，不同学校类别的学生在能力上存在差异。这表明，整体和分析的方法对某些元音音素比对其他元音音素更有效，这就需要确定针对特定元音音素的最佳实践。
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This paper examines how Christian-Muslim debates are carried out from a linguistic point of view, to determine whether the presence or absence of unity in Tanzania could be attributed to the Ujamaa ideology. Therefore, the question this paper wishes to answer is how Christians and Muslims share discourse resources in these religious debates to show their closeness as friends. The study was conducted on two Christian- Muslim debate meetings in Mwanza and Tunduma. A Conversation Analysis focusing on turn allocation, amount of interruption, selection and change of topics, control of the agenda and how interactions are established and finished, coupled with interlocutors' word choice contradict the assertion that these debates are friendly conversations. The meetings exhibit a deep-seated suspicion, and they are more of a competition to win disciples from each other. It is in a competitive atmosphere such as this that divided-subjectness shows, when the real register trumps the symbolic and the imaginary registers, that there is no love lost between interlocutors, and unification too distant to achieve.
{"title":"Ujamaa and Religious Pluralism in Tanzania: What Divided-Subjectness Reveals about Christians and Muslims","authors":"Antoni Keya","doi":"10.56279/jlle.v16i1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56279/jlle.v16i1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how Christian-Muslim debates are carried out from a linguistic point of view, to determine whether the presence or absence of unity in Tanzania could be attributed to the Ujamaa ideology. Therefore, the question this paper wishes to answer is how Christians and Muslims share discourse resources in these religious debates to show their closeness as friends. The study was conducted on two Christian- Muslim debate meetings in Mwanza and Tunduma. A Conversation Analysis focusing on turn allocation, amount of interruption, selection and change of topics, control of the agenda and how interactions are established and finished, coupled with interlocutors' word choice contradict the assertion that these debates are friendly conversations. The meetings exhibit a deep-seated suspicion, and they are more of a competition to win disciples from each other. It is in a competitive atmosphere such as this that divided-subjectness shows, when the real register trumps the symbolic and the imaginary registers, that there is no love lost between interlocutors, and unification too distant to achieve.","PeriodicalId":309195,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131536958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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