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Face threatening acts and politeness strategies by the Kenyan televangelists
(Kenyatta University, 2015-05)
The focus of the study is politeness in televangelism. It aimed at finding out the
face threatening acts inherent in the televangelists' discourse, the politeness
strategies employed by the televangelists and the factors ...
Translation and interpretation of documents into Gikuyu: a case study of the draft constitution of Kenya - (2004)
(Kenyatta University, 2005-04)
The purpose of this dissertation was to establish the need for the translation of the Draft
Constitution of Kenya - 2004 into Gikiiyii, for Gikiiyfi speakers whose proficiency in
English and Kiswahili is low. The study ...
Lexical Change in the Naming of the Months of the Year in Ekegusii
(Kenyatta University, 2016-06)
The purpose of the study was to identify and describe the change in the naming of the months of the year in Ekegusii. In doing so, the study examined the change in language in relation to cultural change in the Gusii ...
Reading abilities of class four learners of English in four selected schools in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya
(2017-07)
The importance of reading skills in today‘s society is great since one has to rely on reading to get information from many sources. This study focused on assessment of learners‘ reading abilities in rural areas of Maara ...
Rhetorical Structure of the Results and Conclusion Sections in Selected Journals of Applied Linguistics
(Kenyatta University, 2016-06)
This study dealt with genre analysis of research article (RA) Results and Discussion
sections in journals published in Applied Linguistics. The research articles were related
to English language education. The study ...
An assessment of reading abilities of class four learners in English in four selected schools in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya
(2014)
The importance of reading skills in today' s society is great since one has to rely on reading to get
infunnation from many sources. This study focuses on assessment of learners' reading abilities
in rural areas ofMaara ...
Patterns and functions of code switching in pre-primary classroom discourse in selected schools at Kasarani division Nairobi
(2012-03-29)
This study was an investigation into the patterns and functions of code switching in pre-primary classroom discourse in selected schools of Kasarani division Nairobi Kenya. The investigation involved the identification ...
The syntactic patterns of code-switching in Ekegusii-English
(2012-06-14)
This research was carried out to identify the syntactic patterns of code-switching in Ekegusii -English and any syntactic constraint on the code-switching that there may be. What is meant by constraint here is that two ...