G: Contrastive linguistics & Education (274)
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Products of Primary Education: Asset to Societal Development, a Link to Basic Decision Making
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 7 This study examined the product of primary education as asset to societal development and a link to basic decision making. The subject (180) primary six pupils and 90 primary school teachers were drawn from the schools that were involved in the study. The study was a descriptive one in which the ex-post facto survey method was used. Thee different instruments were used. They are: English...
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Authors Komolafe Adefunke TitilayoRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 15 to 18
The Application of Arbitrariness in Semiotics to PBL Teaching
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 6 The greatest fruit left by Saussure and Peirce is the arbitrariness of language signs through the comparison between their theories. Through this comparison, we found how the arbitrariness can settle out the problems in language teaching and instruct the linguistic research. Especially we can get the method how to apply the arbitrariness in PBL teaching. ...
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Authors Zheng YingxueRead Journal Click Here
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Teacher Candidates and Teachers’ Opinions on Personalized Teaching
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 6 Personalized teaching materials are the materials created by using the names of people, experiences and objects (a friend’s name, mother’s name, favorite team, and favorite objects’ names) in presentations, examples, exercises & practices and exams. There are studies in field literature that present positive and negative findings about t...
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Authors Assist. Prof. Dr. u00c3u2013zlem u00c3u2021aku00c4u00b1rRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 15 to 20
The Use of Select Writing across the Curriculum Strategies and their Impact on Science Students’ Attitude to Writing
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 6 This study describes the differences in students’ attitudes to writing before and after the use of writing to learn [WTL] and learning to write [LTW] strategies in the delivery of their respective courses. Results reveal that students who had been exposed to LTW strategies display a significantly less favourable attitude to writing than those who had engaged in WTL activ...
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Authors Ingrid McLaren, Dale WebberRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 5 to 14
Adequate Use of Sports Administration: Implications in the Control of Bullying in the “Most Preferred†Secondary Schoolsin South – East Nigeria
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 6 In Nigeria despite parents zeal and enthusiasm to send their children and wards to school, bullying among secondary schools tend to constitute one of the major persistent unresolved problems of these parents. Bullying in schools, especially in the most preferred secondary schools e.g. Federal Government Colleges and reputable Mission schools, need to be researched into Bullying has effec...
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Authors Alagbu Chukwubuikem Eugene, Alagu Chinwe Adline, Agwubuike Okey EliasRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 29 to 36
Employment Status: Patterns of Tertiary Institution Graduates’ Participation in Entreprenuerial Activities
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 3 The study investigated the self employment capabilities of tertiary institution graduates who are government employed, expatriate employed, self employed and unemployed. One thousand two-hundred and twenty (1220) purposively selected tertiary institution graduates were used in the study. Of this number, 196 were self employed, 625 government employed, 177 expatriate employed and 231 unem...
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Authors Arikpo, A, Cornelius-Ukpepi, B.U., Ndifon, R.Read Journal Click Here
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Page No. 67 to 74
Reference and Appositive Repetition in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 5 The concepts of coherence and cohesion have both been widely studied in linguistics and scholars are in no disagreement that they are both principal ingredients in creating a text. By text we mean a piece of utterance, whether spoken or written, whose parts have been put together to form a unified semantic and syntactic whole. The former refers to a semantic property of discourses based ...
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Authors Babalola, Emmanuel TaiwoRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 57 to 63
A Philosophical Analysis of the Nexus between Conceptions of Time and World View: The Ndebele/ Shona Example
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 6 The paper is an exploration of time referencing terms in Ndebele. The main thrust is on the nature of time referencing terms. Time on mastics in Ndebele is based upon the speakers’ cognition. The speakers’ experience and interaction with the world are of significant influence in the creation of meaning in Language particularly in the meaning of time nami...
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Authors Ms Lickel Ndebele,Dr Nhira Edgar Mberi,Prof Itai MuhwatiRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 21 to 28
Internationalization and Regionalization of Higher Education in Uganda: A Descriptive Analysis
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 5 Internationalization of higher education in Africa can be traced to the very onset of higher education on the continent, a feature that is intricately intertwined with colonization. Wherever it has been embraced the influence of internationalization on higher education has not been uniform; it varies from country to country and from region to region. In the development process, Olusola (...
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Authors Nicholas Itaaga, Kiggundu Mohammed Musoke, Anthony Mugagga MuwaggaRead Journal Click Here
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Issues, Challenges and Prospects of Female Education in Nigeria: Implications for Sports Administration in Schools
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 5 This paper sought to identify Issues, Challenges and Prospects of Gender Education in Nigeria Implications for Sports Administration. The population of the study comprised of 3993 male and female secondary school teachers from the six Geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The multiple stage sampling technique was used to select 5 schools from each of the (6) six geopolitical zones of the countr...
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Authors Alagbu Chukwubikem Eugene, Alagbu Chinwe Adline, Agwubuike Okey EliasRead Journal Click Here
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Selected Health Determinants and Academic Performance of Undergraduate Students of Universiti Putra Malaysia
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 5 Introduction: Academic performance of university student impacts their future educational attainment and health. The objective of the study was to determine the relationship between the selected health determinants and academic performance of undergraduate students of Universiti Putra Malaysia. Materials & Methods: An analytical cross sectional study was conducted among undergraduate stu...
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Authors Osuagwu, Hyginus Okwudiri, Hejar Abdul Rahman, Titi Rahmawati Hamedon, Mirnalini KandiahRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 17 to 22
Slang in Cameroon Pidgin English
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 5 Cameroon Pidgin English is one of the principal languages of inter-ethnic communication in Cameroon. Linguists and writers such as, Mbassi-Manga (1976), Menang (1979, 2005), Mbangwana (1983, 2004), Todd (1984), Ngome (1985), Echu (2003), Simo Bobda and Wolf (2003), Ayafor (2005), Neba et al (2006) and others have examined various aspects of Pidgin English in Cameroon. But as the language...
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Authors Napoleon K. EpogeRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 23 to 30
The Importance of Downtoners in English Writing and Translation - With Reference to Chinese Movie Subtitle Translations
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 5 This paper reports on a study of the use of downtoners, an important hedging device, by Chinese translators when translating Chinese subtitles into English. The study was carried out by making a corpus-based analysis of patterns of using downtoners in a Chinese subtitle corpus and an English subtitle corpus. Features of overuse and underuse of downtoners in subtitle translation by the Ch...
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Authors Dahui Dong, Andrew ChiuRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 31 to 43
An Evaluation of Some Concepts of Reading
Published In: GJHSS Part: G: Contrastive linguistics & Education Volume: 13 Issue: 5 The language skill ‘reading’ still constitutes the centre of controversies in education. Researchers in the field of reading seem to be escaping from the limitations of the concrete stage of thought and to be looking beyond the physical attributes of the reading situation. Since reading comprehension courses aim at developing students’ abil...
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Authors Dr. Basel Al-Sheikh HusseinRead Journal Click Here
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Page No. 45 to 49