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This chapter surveys the state of EFL writing in Moroccan high schools during the last four decades. It probes the existing literature, as evidenced in research dissertations, as well as official guidelines and existing textbooks and their effects on teaching practices in the EFL writing classroom. Central to the chapter is the idea that learning to write in a foreign language is a matter of acquiring linguistic and cognitive knowledge required in written communication, as well as being able...

The paper examines the importance of quality control and the perils of examination inadequacies in tertiary institutions in Nigeria especially in Library and Information Science Schools. It discusses various steps that are germane to good examination. The necessary steps discussed and examined exhaustively include: items generation, administration, scoring, reporting, interpretation and test security. In essence, the paper gives prominence to the construction, administration, scoring,...

Doctor of Philosophy in Plant Breeding. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 2016.

Background: As teachers form an important part of the intervention process with children who stutter in primary school, the primary aim was to describe primary school teachers' attitudes in South Africa. The secondary aim was to compare teachers' attitudes towards stuttering in South Africa with those from a pooled group of respondents in the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes-Stuttering (POSHA-S) database from different countries collected in 2009-2014. Method: A quantitative,...

Background: Children with intellectual disabilities living in developing countries are vulnerable to participation restrictions. Few studies have been made regarding their own perspectives. Aim: To describe how children in a low income country aged 13-17 with an intellectual disability perceive their participation in everyday life activities. Method: This bachelor thesis was conducted as a descriptive study and had a quantitative approach. Participants were collected through a...

Abstract The communicative approach to language teaching is based on the theory of language as communication. According to Hymes (1972), language teaching is interpreted by learners as learning through communicative competence. Researchers, particularly in EFL secondary teachers’ classroom practices, have emphasized teachers’ concentration on using grammar translation (GTM) and audio-lingual (ALM) methods. However, most studies did not investigate teachers’ beliefs (as situated in their...

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ocular disorders in HIV positive patients attending the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana. Methods. A cross-sectional study using systematic random sampling was conducted on 295 HIV positive patients. Data collection consisted of semistructured questionnaires, laboratory investigation, medical profile, and ophthalmic examination. Statistical association tests including χ2, independent t-test, and ANOVA were done. A p value ≤ 0.05 was...

Introduction: A global trend to improve appearance has been observed with the advent of technological civilization and contemporary culture. This is related to social customs that places high premium on appearance, and the increased accessibility of cosmetic surgery. This article explores the perception of cosmetic surgery among university students in Nigeria. Materials and Methods: Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data. It was divided into four sections; demographic,...

Basic education service delivery in zongo communities in Ghana appears to be a forgotten area of research. These communities are often associated with slums, poor infrastructure, high illiteracy and dominance of Islamic religion. These features rather become the focus of researchers to the neglect of examining the contribution of stakeholders in these communities to basic education service delivery. This paper assesses the contribution of stakeholders in zongo communities to basic education...

This study focused on teachers’ perceptions about curriculum design and barriers to their participation. The sample size was 130 teachers who responded to a questionnaire. The analyses made use of descriptive statistics and descriptions. The study found that the level of teachers’ participation in curriculum design is low. The results further showed that the importance of teachers taking part in curriculum design include contributing to  successful implementation of curriculum, knowing the...

This study explores the possibility that techniques based on ‘syntactic priming’, a tendency to produce utterances with structures individuals have recently been exposed to, and ‘syntactic satiation’, which leads individuals to judge previously unacceptable utterances as acceptable, can be used to evaluate second language teaching methods. This is based on the assumption that the more robust an individual’s linguistic intuitions, the less susceptible they are to priming or satiation effects....

Inclusive early childhood education (IECE) represents a key policy and practice implementation that facilitates the education and socialisation of all children with and without disability and special educational needs in Ghana. Despite the development of IECE through Government commitments to both inclusive education (IE) and early childhood education (ECE); and as educational goals being realised, little research exists locally on IECE implementation and change practice. The study utilised...

The study examines the selected measures for curbing truancy among secondary school students in Ebonyi state. Four research questions guided the study and descriptive survey research design was employed. The population comprised of 4423 teachers in 221 secondary schools in the area. Simply random sampling was used to select 108 teachers from nine selected secondary schools. A 20-item research made questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument received face validation and was...

An integrated modelling framework is used to simulate crop productivity for current and future climate scenarios. Two crop models, Decision Support Systems for Agro-Technological Transfer (DSSAT) and the Agricultural Productions Systems sIMulator (APSIM), were calibrated and evaluated for the study site in Koutiala, Mali, simulating yields of maize, millet, and peanut for 123 households. These crop models are fed by weather data from baseline climate (1980-2009) from observed weather and...

Education is a key to the realization of most of the goals and targets of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Education as a development tool is upheld by most development theorist as essential in the progression of every society. However, in recent times school dropout has become a serious canker in Ghanaian societies, especially in the rural areas. Based on this backdrop, the study sought to ascertain the major influencing factors affecting basic school dropout in rural Ghana,...

The current non-experimental study sought to establish the extent to which sexual harassment takes place at the institution under investigation, which for reasons of anonymity will be referred to as the University of Ayoba.) The research problem of this study is articulated through the following research questions: (1) What is sexual harassment? (2) Does sexual harassment exist in the University of Ayoba? (3) How is sexual harassment handled at University of Ayoba? The study targeted female...

Programme Consortium generates policy-relevant research to promote an evidence-based approach for improving access to family planning