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Kiswahili and Its Expanding Roles of Development in East African Cooperation: A Case of Uganda

MWENDA MUKUTHURIA (2006)

ABSTRACT Kiswahili is an indigenous African language whose origin is the coast of Kenya. In the 20th C. it was readily accepted in Kenya and Tanzania where it has played key roles of national development. However, in ...
Islam and the Development of Kiswahili

Prof. Mukuthuria, Mwenda (2009-03)

The development of Kiswahili into an international language in the 19th century was contributed by trade, wars, colonial administration policies, linguistic advantage of this language being related to Bantu languages in ...
Exploring Interaction on the Web: Metadiscourse In Kenyan Journalism Blogs

Khadohi, Bonface Isalambo (2010)

This paper seeks to examine metadiscourse use for rhetorical purposes in weblogs of Kenyan media companies. The study adopted a descriptive design and undertook a weblog analysis with focus on four aspects: profile of ...
Communicating University Social Responsibility by Kenyan Universities on the Web

Khadohi, Bonface Isalambo; Prof. Sewe, Tabitha (2010)

This study examines University Social Responsibility (USR) undertaken by Kenyan Public Universities with focus on the prominence, extent and style of communication on the Web. The study adopted a descriptive design.15 ...
Assessing the Impact of Coffee Production on Abagusii Women in Western Kenya: A Historical Analysis (1900–1963)

Samson Omwoyo (2010)

African agriculture has experienced drastic changes in its organisation and form, thus affecting women, the key players, in diverse ways. Both internal and external factors have contributed to this transformation, including ...
Effects of Murran System’s Indigenous Knowledge on Maasai Youth’s School Attendance in Narok District, Kenya

Ronoh, Alexander K.; Chiuri, Lois W; Matheka, Reuben M. (An International Multi-Disciplinary Journal, Ethiopia, 2010-07)

Kenyan Maasai is a pastoral society that lives in arid and semi-arid lands across the Kenya — Tanzania border. The society has a barracks-like institution called the Murran system where male youths are formally trained in ...
Education and Language: Errors in English Language and their Remedies

Peter Kinyua Muriungi; Mwenda Mukuthuria; Margaret Gatavi (2011)

Abstract Problem Statement: The current study tries to investigate the nature and typology of errors that primary school pupils in Nembure Division, Embu County, Kenya make in the acquisition of English as a second ...
Education and Language: Errors in English Language and their Remedies

Mukuthuria, Mwenda; Muriungi, Peter Kinyua (2011-10)

Problem Statement: The current study tries to investigate the nature and typology of errors that primary school pupils in Nembure Division, Embu County, Kenya make in the acquisition of English as a second language. Primary ...
Phonological Processes In Nouns across Maasai Dialects

Meitamei, Alexander; Chai, Furaha; Onyango, James Ogola (2012)

Maasai language has 22 dialects whose noun parallel varies phonologically. This short work describes the phonological processes causing the variation across the dialects of this language. Maasai noun synonyms are either ...
Teaching Democracy: Is It More Complicated Than We Think? an Ethnographic Case Study in St. Petersburg, Russia

Cude, Michelle D (2012)

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Influence of new technology on financial performance; A case of small scale tea industry in Kebirigo, Kenya

Vicky Mobegi; Simeon Kaburi N; Kombo A; David Achuti M; Dickonus Matoke; Abunda Joshua; Abunda Joshua; Ben Ombasa; Dr. Sewe T (2012)

This study provides an overall picture of the role played by the small scale tea industry towards social- economic development. A case study of Kebirigo tea factory has been picked from among the 54 small scale tea factories. ...
THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN KENYA: EXPANDINGEDUCATION THROUGH EVANGELIZATION

Francis Barasa; Joseph Misati (2012)

The education sector in Kenya has gone through significant development processes. Thefoundation that nurtured its growth was laid down by the early Christian Missionaries whocombined the introduction of Christianity among ...
Semiotic Discussion of Safaricom Newspaper Advertisements

Yakub, Adams; Matu, Maina; Oketch, Omondi; Kodak, Benard (Madonna Journal of English and Literary Studies, 2012-11)

Advertising is a form of communication which has one main function: to make the audience buy the advertised product or subscribe to the services displayed. Consumer advertisements employ more than one mode of communication ...
Phonological Influences of First Language on Kiswahili: A Case Study of Kenyan Bantu Languages

Ontieri, James Omari (2013)

Kiswahili language has a phonological system which is distinct from other languages. This can be attributed to the fact that even though it is a Bantu language, it has a unique phonological structure which is a universal ...
Authentic Pedagogy: Its Presence in Social Studies Classrooms and Relationship to Student Performance on State-Mandated Tests

Saye, John (2013)

challenge present in a diverse sample of U.S. classrooms, investigated whether students from different social and academic contexts were more likely to encounter authentic pedagogy than others, and examined how the level ...
Challenges of Getting Lexical Equivalents in Interpreting Religious messages: Case study of Public Religious Meetings in Bondo Town-Kenya

Silas Odhiambo Owala; Juliet Akinyi Jagero (2013)

Interpretation plays an important role in religious meetings where those in the audience speak different languages. However some interpreters face serious challenges in their attempt to interpret the messages from one ...
Perception of the Rural Luo Community on Widow Inheritance and HIV/AIDs in Kenya: Towards Developing Risk Communication Messages

Elizabeth Asewe Oluoch andWesonga Justus Nyongesa (2013)

This paper explores the perception of the Luo community on widow inheritance and HIV/AIDS and examines the risk communication messages by recommending what successful risk communication messages should entail. The paper ...
The Manipulation of Kenyan Television Viewers through the Modes of Signification in Television Advertisements

Kodak Benard; Prof. Peter M. Matu; Dr. Omondi Oketch (2013)

Television advertisements come in multi-modes, that is, they use verbal and visual modes of signification. This poses a challenge in that in multimodal discourses, television viewers are faced with the changing phenomena ...
Language Use in Adverts as a Tool of Construction of Perception on Alcohol Use among Secondary School Students in Eldoret Municipality

Kenneth Odhiambo Claris KasambaPeter M. Matu (2013)

This paper examines language use in adverts as a tool of construction of perception on alcohol use among secondary school students in Eldoret municipality. The paper also discusses how alcohol related information is portrayed ...
A Study of Terrorism Discourse in TaifaLeo Newspaper of Kenya

Mr. Silas Odhiambo Owala (2013)

Terrorism is a global concern and usually elicits a lot of sensationalism every time it occurs. The media often finds itself in the middle of debates over this issue. Apart from the role of informing the public, the media ...

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