Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FoA&SS / FoL / FBM): Recent submissions
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Teaching Kiswahili pronunciation in secondary schools in Kenya: the necessity to use the right information and descriptive tools
(University of Nairobi, 2012)This paper focuses on inaccuracies in the way the teaching of Kiswahili pronunciation is provided for in textbooks recommended for secondary schools in Kenya. The major inaccuracies consist in the following: some of the ... -
Strategies of controlling the linguistic response from cross-examined witnesses: lay defendants as cross examiners in a kenyan resident magistrate’s court
(University of Nairobi, 2013)This paper analyzes strategies of controlling the linguistic responses of prosecution witnesses that were employed by two accused persons in a grievous-bodily-harm case involving family members at a magistrate’s court in ... -
A swot analysis of the language policies in education in Kenya and Ethiopia
(University of Nairobi, 2010)This paper compares the language policies in education (past and present) in Ethiopia and Kenya. It shows the role played by both international and indigenous languages, e.g. as languages of instruction in education in ... -
Misuse of prepositions in Kenyan English: further evidence of the difficulty in choosing the “right” preposition
(University of Nairobi, 2010)The literature (mainly by Mwangi 2003 & 2004) on the use of English prepositions in Kenyan English has shown how these were used differently from Standard International English usage. The present study sought to find further ... -
Are noun class markers in kiswahili really such a learning difficulty? A study of the use of noun class markers by pupils of the busibi primary school in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2010)The purpose of this study was to establish the extent to which the StandardSeven pupils of the Busibi Primary School in the Samia District in western Kenya would misuse the pairs of noun class markers A-WA-, LI-YA-, ... -
Language and the construction of a positive identity among inmates in Kenyan jails
(University of Nairobi, 2010)This paper describes linguistic and stylistic strategies used by a group of inmates in Kenyan jails to construct their identities in a positive way through language. They did so in thirty-four letters which they wrote ... -
At the mercy of others’ voices: an illustration of frequent interpreter language errors in kenyan courtrooms
(University of Nairobi, 2010)n a sample of courts in Kenya between January and March 2008. Drawing from data mainly consisting of transcriptions of audio-taped discourse of official proceedings in the sample courts, the paper illustrates the most ... -
Simplifying the Rules in the Grammar of Kenyan English
(University of Nairobi, 2001)This paper looks at the grammatical (i.e. syntactic and morphological) features of ‘Kenyan English’. With reference, as the target, to the grammar of what one could call standard 'international' English, the features in ... -
Aspects of the vocabulary of Kenyan English: an overview
(University of Nairobi, 2007)From a variety of sources, this paper has gleaned a substantial amount of information on specific aspects of the vocabulary of the Kenyan English variety. This information provides evidence that as a second language variety ... -
Written requests in Kenyan English: an illustration of L1 culture adaptation in L2 acquisition
(University of Nairobi, 2004)This paper seeks to illustrate the observation from studies on second language acquisition and use that culture-specific aspects of a given language can be adapted to the norms of the culture of the linguistic community ... -
The role of indigenous languages in kenya: a case for using them as languages of instruction throughout primary school
(University of Nairobi, 2012)In the situation that currently prevails in Kenya, English is the prestigious language, the mastery of which is a prerequisite for social and economic advancement. Kiswahili, for its part, as the national language of ... -
Specific language impairment in the speech of Meshack, an Ekegusii speaker
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Research on SLI, mostly on European languages like English, German and Italian, has suggested that it mainly affects inflectional morphology and, to a lesser degree, syntax and phonology. The present study researched SLI ... -
Kenya Entangled in Proscribed Crimes of Terrorism and Violations of Human Rights Law
(Horizon Research Publishing, 2015)The Republic of Kenya is one of the youngest African States emerging from British Colonial power since 1963. Since then it has been caught up in series of terrorist attacks claiming damages and harms to civilians. As ... -
Harmonizing the orthographies of Bantu languages the case of gĩkũyũ and Ekegusii in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Despite the multiplicity of African languages, available literature on the development of these languages points to the need to have their orthographies harmonized and standardised. This is because properly designed ... -
A relevance-theoretical analysis of aspects of Mchongoano
(University of Nairobi, 2012)This article investigates mchongoano, a Kenyan speech event very similar to what Americans call “playing the dozens”. Much as sociologists, folklorists, and anthropologists have studied playing the dozens fewer studies ... -
Reference cohesion within the complex sentence in the Swahili of Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2012)This paper focuses on reference cohesion within a complex sentence in the day-to-day Kiswahili of Nairobi. The thrust of its argumentation is that although earlier research inspired by Halliday and Hasan (1976) has been ... -
Farm technology adoption in Kenya: a simultaneous estimation of inorganic fertilizer and improved maize variety adoption decisions.
(University of Nairobi,, 2014)This paper models inorganic fertilizer and improved maize varieties adoption as joint decisions. Controlling for household, plot-level, institutional and other factors, the study found that household adoption decisions on ... -
The accountability for reasonableness approach to guide priority setting in health systems within limited resources – findings from action research at district level in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background Priority-setting decisions are based on an important, but not sufficient set of values and thus lead to disagreement on priorities. Accountability for Reasonableness (AFR) is an ethics-based approach to a ... -
Indirect cost of maternal deaths in the WHO African Region in 2010.
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Background An estimated 147,741 maternal deaths occurred in 2010 in 45 of the 47 countries in the African Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). The objective of this study was to estimate the indirect cost of ... -
Criminality in “Hate Speech” Provision in the Laws of Kenya- Jurisprudential Challenges
What is hate speech and what is an open speech are still subject to wider intellectual and academic debate. What is at issue is the criminalisation of hate speech and how the law looks at it. Since it was entrenched in the ...
