Orton Gillingham structured literacy teaching approach to students with Specific Learning Disabilities: a case of Teacher Training by Dyslexia Organization, Kenya
Everlyn Oluoch-Suleh PhD1
June Ombara2
1. Kabarak University, P.O. Private Bag- 20157 Kabarak, Kenya.
Tel: +254 0711833093, Email: esuleh@kabarak.ac.ke
2. African Women’s Studies Centre, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box...
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This study examines the dramaturgies used in the representation of the female gender in Kenyan drama. The study stemmed from the need to interrogate how Kenyan playwrights represent women in drama as one way of demonstrating women’s empowerment in society. Thus, the study examined Denis Kyalo’s The Hunter is Back (2010), Francis Imbuga’s The Return of Mgofu (2011) and The Green Cross...
This paper reflects on sociolinguistic theories, key to studying popular language jargon that characterizes informal oral communication between members of a speech community. Our research population is ‘matatu’ touts and drivers in Kenya. The objective of this research is to investigate dialogism in which we observe interrelatedness in sub-languages embedded in Kiswahili and Kikuyu and how...
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This paper examines how Mpe Phaswane’s Welcome to our Hillbrow interrogates notions of urbanization, Hybridity and globalization as witnessed in the contemporary society. Though the setting of the text is in Johannesburg and Oxford, I read the same as representative of other regions experiencing the same social issues globally. The focus in the paper is placed on the experiences of...
Lugha ni nyenzo kuu ya mawasiliano katika jamii. Jamii ya Afrika mashariki kama jamii nyingine duniani zinajivunia lugha ya Kiswahili kama nyenzo mojawapo ya mawasiliano katika mataifa mengi ya Afrika mashariki. Lugha nyingine zinazozungumzwa Afrika masharika kando na lugha-mame za wazaliwa wa Afrika mashariki ni, Kiingereza, Kifaransa na Kijerumani. Lugha hizi zilizokuja na mkoloni pia...
Metaphors used by Jesus Christ in His Preaching Ministry: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach
Mary Nguvi Muindi
School of Education Arts,
Kabarak University,
NAKURU, Kenya
E-mail:marymuindi@kabarak.ac.ke
Dr. Antony Somba
School of Education Arts,
Kabarak University,
NAKURU, Kenya
E-mail: Asomba@kabarak.ac.ke
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This paper interrogates the role of Kamba popular songs in creating societal awareness in contemporary Kenyan Society. In the main, the paper analyses Danny P Mboka‘s popular songs on Covid-19 pandemic. The paper further holds that popular songs are an avenue through which the society’s culture continues to be expressed, enriched across different spheres of society. The current study focuses...
This paper investigates the changes in meaning that have taken place in the loan words and phrases from English, Kiswahili and Gikuyu into Sheng, a language that’s popular among the Kenyan youth. Unlike the common changes of either semantic narrowing or broadening, sheng loan seems to drop off the meaning of the borrowed item and pick up a completely new one. Although the morphology of the...
Ikisiri
Utafiti huu unajikita katika kuzitathmini isitiari dhanifu ambazo huibuka katika mchakato mzima ambao hufungamanishwa na hafla za majadiliano ya mahari katika awamu mbalimbali za shughuli hiyo muhimu katika jamii ya Agikuyu inayorejelewa kama “Ruracio”. Matumizi ya sitiari katika kujenga majadiliano huwa uti wa mgongo na kwa sababu hiyo wawakilishi wanaoteuliwa na pande mbili za aila...
Kabarak University
School of education department of education
Bonface Otieno Okinyi
Emails. bokinyi@kabarak.ac.ke
Bonfaceotieno551@gmail.com
Contacts: 0746955316/ 0768692364
Cherono Careen
Email. ccarren@kabarak.ac.ke
0708515267
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This paper examines ways through which artistic works such as music, drama, spoken word and other related creative...
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This paper examines the place of technology in the teaching and learning of drama in Kenyan secondary schools. Drama as a genre is performative in nature, that is, it requires active doing and participation by participants. However, in most Kenyan secondary schools, drama has often been incorporated into the syllabus just like any other theoretical discipline without emphasis on its...
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This study examines the role of style in feminist dramaturgies.The study stemmed from the need to interrogate how Kenyan playwrights use style to represent women in drama as one way of demonstrating women’s empowerment in society. Thus, the study examined Denis Kyalo’s The Hunter is Back (2010), Francis Imbuga’s The Return of Mgofu (2011) and The Green Cross of Kafira (2013), and...
VIGEZO VYA HYMES VYA MAWASILIANO: UCHANGANUZI WA MATUKIO KWENYE HAFLA YA MAHARI KATIKA JAMII YA GIKUYU
Kariithi Francis
Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literature
Kisii University, Kenya
Ikisiri
Lugha ni asasi muhimu katika mfumo mzima wa mawasiliano ya mwanadamu ulimwenguni ambapo ndanimwe mna viambajengo vinavyoukamilisha usarufi wa lugha husika ambao kimsingi...