The purpose of the study was to identify and examine the level of errors in the usage of punctuation marks among students in Ghanaian Polytechnics. Data was collected using test results on an unpunctuated passage and a written speech. Results of the study revealed that students of the...

The present study is carried out to analyse the basic elements of short stories that are fundamental to make up an effective piece of short fiction unique to the genre. The examination subsequently proceeds to expose the key elements that are employed by in his three selected stories: Before the...

The paper was divided into sections with the introduction coming first.  In the introduction, it was observed that language played an important role in literature as in everyday life; language expressed the themes of literary works.  It was noted that this study fell within the framework of...

Listening is a complex process and crucial in the development of second language competence. The present study investigated the relationship among four different test tasks and different test-taking strategies used by Iranian EFL learners. Sixty EFL male and female learners participated in this...

This paper is a critical analysis of the theme of betrayal of friendship as a human experience in four selected Akan folktales (Afs). It leans on the Horatian view of literature as useful and pleasurable and also on the Performance Theory which considers the folkloric tale-text in its ,entirety...

Learning new words or idioms in L2 is a complicated process involving a variety of sub-processes and tasks. This experimental study investigated the popular belief of many foreign language teachers that words learned with the use of two tasks- receptive and productive- are better retained...

Teaching English has become a major necessity for developing areas in Asian countries due to globalization. The general purpose of this paper is to discuss the problems related with the novel tendency of teaching English for Asian educational system. This paper discusses the requirements of...

It is a fact that more and more people in the world are beginning to learn Chinese. Meanwhile, for these students majoring in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCAFL) in China, having a good mastery of English is also very important. Under such circumstance, this paper investigated the...

The story of Modern African poetry cannot be complete without the late South African Poet, Dennis Brutus. Until his death in 2009, Dennis Brutus was a fierce voice against oppression of any kind, and one of his tools was his poetry (especially of the latter years). Many Modern African Poets have...

The implementation of English-medium instruction by non-native speaking lecturers to non-native speaking students is one of the most challenging processes in engineering education. This article aims with a view to analyzing the need of introducing Functional English Language course to the...