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This paper reports the results of a brief investigation into what non-native English-speaking teachers (non-NESTs) perceive to be their difficulties with the English language. It was hypothesised that the confidence of such teachers, which affects the effectiveness with which they teach, would be low. Results from 15 randomly selected interviewees confirmed this hypothesis. The monitor hypothesis was utilised in the investigation as it explains how adults perceive their L2 competence. It was...

The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis of the involvement of the cotyledonary Lutzelburgia auriculata agglutinin (LAA) in the plant defense against fungi. It was observed that LAA is localized at the periphery of the cotyledon and that it is released to the surrounding medium during seed germination when the plantlet is most vulnerable to phytopathogens. When LAA was included in the culture medium it inhibited the fungal growth of Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, Fusarium solani and...

This study was carried out to investigate the factors influencing enrollment and completion rates in public secondary schools in Meru North District. To address the question of education efficiently studies of this nature are very vital since they will show whether the inputs (students) put into education reflect the outputs expected. Evidence from the ground indicated cases of non-enrollment of students in form one and non-completion in form four. This therefore translates into some degree...

In Sub-Saharan Africa millions of school-age children have no access to schooling; in a small number of countries, fewer than one in four are in school. Giving all children of the appropriate age access to school implies that large numbers of additional teachers must be recruited and trained. However, getting children into school is not sufficient to meet the MDG; children need help to persevere and complete their primary education. One of the main sources of this help is likely to be...

A Thesis in the Department of ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION, Faculty of Education. Submitted to the School of Post Graduate Studies, University of Jos in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the

Extracted from text ... SEPTEMBER 2005 THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIV MEDICINE 30 PLENARY: ECONOMICS AIDS, Unemployment and Disability in South Africa: The Case for Welfare Reform Nicoli Nattrass AIDS and Society Research Unit, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town South Africa is facing a dual crisis of AIDS and unemployment.1 According to the ASSA2002 demographic model, by 2005 19% of adults (and 11% of all South Africans) were HIV-positive. This...

This exploratory study investigated the effects of a structured writing strategy on the quality of expository compositions produced by 36 African-American college undergraduates with learning disabilities. The strategy was structured to assist students in developing a topic sentence and main ideas into body paragraphs, and in using transition words throughout the composition. The strategy effects were compared for a group that received the specific, structured writing strategy training and a...

In spite of the rich variety of natural resources in Nigeria, the country is still very much underdeveloped. Within and outside Nigeria, analysts are of the view that the country clearly has the potential to be prosperous. As Nigeria attempts without much success to pull itself out of the quagmire of underdevelopment, the inevitably persistent question has been: given the resources at its disposal, why has the country remained mired in poverty? This paper attempts to provide a partial answer...

Newborn hearing screening has been recognized as an essential component of public health care in early childhood in developed countries. However, such screening is yet to be widely embraced in the developing world. The new national health policy in Nigeria seeks, for the first time, to reduce the impact of permanent hearing loss on early childhood development through early detection and timely intervention services. The aim of this paper is to ascertain if newborn hearing screening satisfies...

This paper evaluates a program designed to train Nigerian state government social workers and other human service practitioners to use a recently developed risk assessment instrument. The screening device is for the identification of pregnant women at risk of vesico vaginal fistula (VVF). VVF is a severe and socially stigmatizing gynecological condition found in many contemporary African societies. Social workers, nurses, and community health workers were given a one day workshop by the...

Following the implementation of the new outcomes-based Curriculum 2005, teacher competence in teaching reform-based science in large classes is one of the challenges in the continuing reform of South Africa's education system. Most school teachers have little experience, meagre training and are operating in large and poorly resourced science classrooms. As part of the understanding of the teaching and learning that takes place in such contexts, this study focuses on science teachers'...

This paper examined the Industrial Training Fund, which was established to provide skill-oriented continuing education opportunities for industrial workers in Nigeria. Based on the critical examination of the provisions of the decree and the activities of the Fund, suggestions are given towards the improvement of the policy and implementation. These include: mandatory provision of supervised on-the-job and off-the-job training opportunities by employers in order to enable employees have...

AbstractThe prevalence of enterobiasis and its relationship with anal itching and enuresis were investigated among 799, randomly selected children aged 5–14 years, who lived, either in an area of high population density or one with a much lower population density, in Calabar, Nigeria. The eggs of Enterobius vermicularis were found in anal swabs (collected with transparent adhesive tape) from 60 (7.5%) of the subjects tested, with the prevalence of infection appearing markedly higher in the...

Indigenous knowledge (IK) is usually shared among local communities and transferred from one generation to the next, through oral traditions and story-telling. The IK distance learning course was an effort to facilitate this process across four countries and two continents. Information communications technology (ICTs) enabled the bridging of the geographical and perceptional distance between the 102 participants, through the videoconference facilities of the global development learning...

Indigenous knowledge (IK) is usually shared among local communities and transferred from one generation to the next, through oral traditions and story-telling. The IK distance learning course was an effort to facilitate this process across four countries and two continents. Information communications technology (ICTs) enabled the bridging of the geographical and perceptional distance between the 102 participants, through the videoconference facilities of the global development learning...

Biological reserves are established to protect natural resources and represent the diversity of environments found within a region. Unfortunately, many systems of protected areas do not proportionally capture the range of environmental conditions occupied by species and communities. Combinations of habitat loss and climate change may exacerbate these representational biases, and result in future distributions of environmental conditions that bare little resemblance to historic patterns. New...

A combined paleomagnetic and 40Ar / 39Ar study was carried out along eight stratigraphically overlapping sections in the Oligocene Afro-Arabian flood volcanic province in Yemen (73 sites). The composite section covers the entire volcanic stratigraphy in the sampling region and represents five polarity zones that are correlated to the geomagnetic polarity time scale based on 40Ar / 39Ar ages from this and previous studies. The resulting magnetostratigraphy is similar to that of the conjugate...