Pub Date : 2007-09-07DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V16I1.39321
J. M. Magogwe
A body of literature exists that shows that self-efficacy beliefs are important in learning. Moreover, this literature contains findings from research conducted in a number of disciplines and places which indicate that there is a relationship between proficiency, gender and self-efficacy beliefs. Despite these important findings, little self-efficacy research has been conducted in the English as a second language (ESL) area. Moreover, to my knowledge, self-efficacy research has not been extensively done in Botswana particularly in the ESL area of learning. Self-efficacy beliefs have been found to influence learning by social cognitive psychology research. For instance, individuals have been found to develop certain beliefs about how they can cope with certain tasks in specific situations (Bandura, 1977, 1986, 1989a, 1989b; Bandura & Schunk, 1981). According to Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory, the manner in which individuals judge their capability to perform tasks, or their self-efficacy beliefs, foretell their potential to accomplish such tasks. Bandura (1986: 391) defines self-efficacy beliefs as “people’s judgement of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances”. A study of self-efficacy beliefs in language learning is essential in Botswana because its findings can be utilized to assist students particularly at the University of Botswana (UB) where the research reported in this article took place. UB students have been found to perform badly in English language learning. According to Chimbganda (2000) the first year students he investigated at UB were not able to perform even basic writing skills in English, especially in Science. In fact, he went on to suggest that first year students lack a ‘general education’ that gives them the necessary preparation to enable them to read and write in English at an acceptable level. Consequently, in an attempt to tackle these English language problems the Communication and Study Skills Unit (CSSU) was established at UB in 2000 in order to offer and co-ordinate English for Academic Purpose (EAP) and English for Specific Purpose (ESP) courses in a more organized manner. In addition, optional Communication and Study Skills courses began to be
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Pub Date : 2007-09-07DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V16I1.39314
H. Batibo, P. Seloma
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Pub Date : 2007-09-07DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V17I1.39308
T. Soneye
This study examined the Phonological Sensitivity of newscasters in the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) to sound-spelling discrepancies in English. This is an often ignored but essential variable in English studies, hence its need. Thirty newscasters from one zonal and one non-zonal station provided the data. Respondents were examined based on the framework of Orthographic Complexity which employs rhyme-matching, alliteration-oddity detection, elision and phoneme counting tasks. Epi-info (version 6) was employed for data entry and STATA for the computer analysis. The results indicated that only 36.67% of respondents recognized phonological redundancies in the elision task of supposedly common English words. The probability of the occurrence of spelling pronunciation across phoneme, rhyme and alliteration tasks was 0.032, 0.193 and 1.000 respectively. Respondents were sensitive to spellings with phonemic tendencies as 80% passed in American sound-spelling compliant words and 45% when otherwise. The study concluded that the orthographic complexity of the English language is an important precursor of processing abilities and that the preponderancy of research in mother tongue interference as the major reason for Nigerians' poor pronunciation is half the truth. It decried as obsolete the pedagogic practice of gauging speakers' performances against natives' and recommends the teaching of dialectal variations in Nigeria. Keywords : English, phonology, sensitivity, orthography, newscasters, Nigeria MARANG: Journal of Language and Literature Vol. 17 2007: pp. 29-42
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Studies within linguistics have proven that language expresses identity. However, the act of lexical borrowing from indigenous languages and non-English expressions by Nigerian novelists as resources for the construction of identity in the 21 st century Nigerian novel is yet to attract scholarly attention, and this tends to undermine the fundamental role of lexis in the construction of identity. The present paper therefore employs Castells’ identity framework to examine the extent to which lexical borrowing is a resource for identity construction in selected 21st century Nigerian novels. Four novels by Nigerian authors representing the four geographical zones of Nigeria were purposefully sampled. The analysis, which is both quantitative and qualitative, reveals that the use of lexical borrowing by Nigerian novelists to encode their Nigerian identity, and as counter-hegemonic devices to English is undermined by the universality of English on the one hand and by the very incoherent concept of identity on the other.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V17I1.39313
S. H. Begum
The concern of my paper is to analyze and explore the concept of ‘New Woman' in the novels of Nigeria's well-known writers: Chinua Achebe and Buchi Emecheta. As the focus is on the life of African women to reveal post-colonial reality, the novels of the above writers that are set almost in the same age have been chosen. In the struggle of self-fulfillment, African women reconfigure African womanism, prioritizing female individualization. Subverting the powerlessness of women to authority, the female protagonists in both the novels become a new breed of Nigerian women in the making. The emergence of femaleness and the woman centered endings of Anthills of the Savannah and Kehinde explicitly show their struggle is not a crusade for sexual and social justice, but a paradigm that articulates a still unrealized striving for self-expression. Keywords : postcolonial reality, new social order, sexual and social justice, new breed of Nigerian women, African womanism, subverting powerlessness of women to authority. MARANG: Journal of Language and Literature Vol. 17 2007:pp. 95-103
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V18I1.39327
H. Batibo, M. Kopi
The aim of this study is to investigate sex-related euphemisms in Setswana. Although sex matters, as embarrassing phenomena, are not usually talked about in Setswana communities, they have recently been brought to the open by the incidence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The assumption in this study is therefore that, with more open discourse of sex-related matters in Botswana, more euphemisms have been created to camouflage the embarrassing nature of the various referents in this field. The sex-related matters include private parts, sexual activities, sexual secretions, sexual diseases and related phenomena. This study describes the nature, origin, and types of these euphemisms and considers their place and role in the social interaction of the people of Botswana. Keywords : Sex-related euphemisms, Setswana, HIV/AIDS MARANG Vol. 18 2008 pp. 69-83
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V17I1.39310
F. Omoregie
In February 2004, the Right Reverend Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa in a gathering of over 800 Catholic men for the St Joseph's Guild National Congress at Regina Mundi School in Gweru declared that ‘The cultural practice of ‘resting the spirit of departed relatives' (kurova guva) is destroying Christianity.' This comment puts into perspective the efforts of previous scholars who have written on this ceremony, describing its social context. Most scholars have concentrated on what is done at the ceremony, how it is done and what happens if that which is supposed to be done is not done. In this paper, my concern is neither with the recent views expressed by the Right Reverend Alexio Churu Muchabaiwa nor what the scholars listed above have written about the ceremony, my intention is to look at the ceremony from the viewpoint of language and communication. It is through the use of appropriate language and behaviour, determined by the context, that the ceremony realises its intended success. Without that particular language and behaviour of that particular register, the register might not meet with success and the ceremony ends in a fiasco. A description of the social structure or the inclusion of some anthropological data has been deemed necessary because it is from such contexts that we get language. All other data were gathered from personal observations of some aspects of the ceremony, while researching on the dramatic aspects of the ceremony, and interviews conducted with people who took part in all the aspects of these ceremonies. Keywords : communication, kurova guva ceremony, language, Shona culture, register, Zimbabwe MARANG: Journal of Language and Literature Vol. 17 2007: pp. 53-70
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V17I1.39312
P. Ebewo, P. G. Mmila
In February 2006, Botswana Television (BTV) screened a commissioned television drama series entitled Thokolosi. This drama series, which deals with witchcraft, is set in a Botswana village called Bobonong. The contents of the drama series in relation to the village attracted criticisms from the public, which culminated in a heated controversy. While a section of the Batswana audience cherished the pioneering indigenous effort of the filmmakers, a cross-section, particularly indigenes of Bobonong and their sympathizers, frowned at the production, denouncing it as stereotypical, parochial, and ethnically biased. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the ‘censorship' debate in a positive mode, by attempting to enlighten the viewing public on how to deal with works of art and to sensitize artistic producers to expectations from the consuming audience. Keywords : audience; Bobonong; Thokolosi; television drama; producer; controversy MARANG: Journal of Language and Literature Vol. 17 2007: pp.83-94
2006年2月，博茨瓦纳电视台(BTV)播出了一部受委托制作的电视剧《Thokolosi》。这部关于巫术的电视剧以aBotswana村庄Bobonong为背景。电视剧中有关这个村庄的内容引起了公众的批评，最终引发了一场激烈的争论。虽然一部分巴茨瓦纳观众珍视电影制作人在土著方面的开拓性努力，但也有一部分观众，尤其是波博农土著及其同情者，对这部电影不满，谴责它是刻板的、狭隘的、有种族偏见的。本文的目的是通过试图启发观众如何处理艺术作品，并使艺术生产者对消费观众的期望敏感，以积极的方式为“审查”辩论做出贡献。关键词:受众;Bobonong;Thokolosi;电视剧;MARANG: Journal of Language and Literature Vol. 17 2007: pp.83-94
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V18I1.39324
M. Alo
This paper focuses on the applications of phonemic contrasts in the utterances of forty final-year Yoruba-English bilingual University undergraduates and the implications of their applications on pedagogic practices especially in English as a second language (ESL) environment. This subject is rarely studied in Nigeria, yet, it might be significant for shaping the effective teaching of oral English. The respondents, twenty of whom were students of English and the other twenty, students of Yoruba, were tested based on the framework of traditional phonemic theory. The results indicated that only 40% of the students studying Yoruba Linguistics were able to apply phonemic contrasts in the rendition of English words whereas 60% of the students undertaking English Studies did. The study establishes application or otherwise of phonological rules as a vital dimension of investigating phonological variation and proficiencies in ESL and suggests the need to pay more attention to the area in ESL teaching and learning operations, especially for students in other disciplines. Keywords : phonemic contrast, English as a second language, oral English teaching, Nigeria MARANG Vol. 18 2008 pp. 29-36
本文主要研究了音位对比在约鲁巴-英语双语大学四年级本科生话语中的应用，以及音位对比在教学实践中的应用，特别是在英语作为第二语言(ESL)环境中的应用。这一主题在尼日利亚很少被研究，然而，它可能对塑造有效的英语口语教学具有重要意义。受访者中有20名是英语学生，另外20名是约鲁巴语学生，他们在传统音位理论的框架下进行了测试。结果表明，学习约鲁巴语言学的学生中只有40%的人能够在英语单词的翻译中运用音位对比，而学习英语的学生中有60%的人能够做到这一点。该研究将语音规则的应用或其他方面确立为研究ESL语音变化和熟练程度的重要维度，并建议在ESL教学和学习操作中需要更多地关注这一领域，特别是对其他学科的学生。关键词:音位对比，英语作为第二语言，英语口语教学，尼日利亚，MARANG Vol. 18 2008 pp. 29-36
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V17I1.39307
Margaret O. Biakolo
This study investigated how reading is taught in Botswana Government schools. The findings indicate that inadequate reading instruction by teachers, their inability to model and provide students with research-based proven strategies, lack of reading specialists/coaches in the primary schools, the use of only basal series as the primary texts for reading, were responsible for the presence of many struggling readers and non-readers in the Botswana Government Primary Schools. The study is important in that it will reacquaint teachers with some aspects of the reading process, adequate reading instruction and ability to model reading strategies in their classes. In this regard the Ministry of Education may have to employ reading couches in the primary schools. The paper also recommends, among other things, raising the status of reading by making it a school subject in its right so that it can be examined just like any other school subject. Keywords : primary, reading, instruction, model, strategies, specialists MARANG: Journal of Language and Literature Vol. 17 2007: pp. 13-28
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