The sociolinguistic context of prolonged language contact in contemporary Kenya should lead to a certain amount of influence of the languages on one another, e.g. through loanwords. The main aim of the present paper was to examine English in Kenya to show what kind of words are borrowed from...
The researcher prepared an interview guide of thirty English and Kiswahili words check lists.The check list guided the researcher during interview to determine Kibena words which have multiple meaning and how such words is used in different context with different meaning manifest. Another tools used ...
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Prior to PRIMR, the Kenyan government curriculum did not mandate a specific method for early literacy instruction. The dominant method used by teachers was choral repetition with a focus on words rather than on explicit instruction in phonics (Commeyras & Inyega, 2007; Dubeck et al., 2015; ...
The model was then used to explore creativity correlations with children’s environment and background factors. The total creativity index score was found to be correlated with the child’s birth order, fluency of English in the household and self-perceptions of the child. This research provides...
Misspellings of Swahilized English Loan Words Committed in Kiswahili Functional Writing by Form Four Learners in Public Secondary Schools in Nyamira County, KenyaMoochi, Charles NyandoroJournal of Issues & Practice in Education
Processing the same text in two different languages yields useful information on how words and phrases are translated from a source language into a target language. To investigate this, a parallel corpus is typically aligned by linking linguistic tokens in the source language to the corresponding ...
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Many English words are not native to the language but they originated from many languages, dead as well as living in the world. According to McCrum (1986), only 20% of the entire vocabulary of modern English is actually native English (i.e. German Anglo-Saxon). 80% of English ...
Additional data was obtained from the Oruhaya dictionary, Oruhaya riddles, proverbs and songs, as well from the Luganda-English dictionary and a dictionary of Swahili proverbs and their usage. The study found that most Bantu language words have sound correspondence, since they share a...