Department of Literature, Language and Linguistics

NFLUENCE OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS ON LEANERS ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH FUNCTIONAL WRITING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL LEARNERS IN WEST POKOT COUNTY. KENYA

2025-04-30T09:21:37Z

NFLUENCE OF TEACHER PREPAREDNESS ON LEANERS ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH FUNCTIONAL WRITING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL LEARNERS IN WEST POKOT COUNTY. KENYA Koros, Benjamin Functional writing is a pragmatic use of language for social and personal expression. It is a universal communication tool that determines achievement of students’ lifelong goals. Teacher preparedness. Among the functional skills namely; functional writing, cloze test and oral functional skills, functional writing skills recorded the lowest mean score in the Kenya certificate of secondary education (K.C.S.E) examination at 33.7% compared to 62.5% for cloze test and 45.6% for oral skills, for period 2008 to 2018 in West Pokot County. Performance of functional writing skills in the county is the lowest compared to Turkana with 42.2% and Samburu with 43.9%. The purpose of the study was to establish the influence of selected teacher preparedness determinants of achievement in English functional writing skills among secondary school students in West Pokot County. The objectives of the study were to: establish the Influence of teacher preparedness on leaners achievement in English functional writing among secondary school learners in West Pokot County. Kenya. A conceptual framework was used show the relationship between independent variables (teacher preparedness) and dependent variable (students’ achievement in functional writing). The study used descriptive survey and correlation study designs. The study population consisted of 2580 Form 4 students who had been taught all functional skills, and 34 teachers of English subject from 34 schools. The study used saturated sampling technique to select 31 teachers while Krejcie and Morgan table was used to determine sample size of 334 students who were then randomly sampled. Data collection was done through teacher questionnaire and observation schedule, achievement test. Pilot study comprised of 3 teachers of English and 250 students from 3 secondary schools. Cronbach’s alpha formula was used to establish instrument’s reliability whereby reliability coefficient for Teacher questionnaire was 0.82. Supervisors from the Department of Educational Communication Technology, and Curriculum Studies of Maseno University ascertained content validity of instruments. Descriptive statistics (percentages and mean), were used to analyze quantitative data. A random effect model was used to show the magnitude of relationship between variables. The findings revealed that the relationship between teachers’ preparedness and students’ achievement was statistically significant (1.67, 95% CL: 1.31, 2.05; p-value<0.001). The study concludes that teacher preparedness was the most significant factor. The study recommended that teachers should prepare well to meet need of the learners.

Reconfiguring Gothic-Postmodernism: A Reading of Namina Forna’s (2021) The Gilded Ones

2024-07-09T05:21:35Z

Reconfiguring Gothic-Postmodernism: A Reading of Namina Forna’s (2021) The Gilded Ones Julius Kipkorir A. Chepkwony, Prof. Nabea Wendo, This paper explores Namina Forna’s (2021) debut novel, The Gilded Ones, as manifesting postmodern aspects which allow the text to comment on twenty-first-century life. Forna employs certain parameters of postmodernism that elucidate the postmodern lifestyle. Anchored on the bedrock of postmodernism, this paper dissects the selected text in order to reveal an artistic trajectory that captures the pulse and the tempor contemporaneous with postmodern life. Postmodernism has brought a revolution in the way a text is appreciated since it rejects the limiting boundaries of art and allows plurality of interpretations. Locating Forna’s text, The Gilded Ones within postmodernism theory, this paper employed a library-based close reading to explore the rejuvenation of horrors and fears encapsulated in the twenty first century. It engaged an interpretivist research design that allowed data to be chiselled out of primary text and coded for interpretation. Judgmental sampling was done to arrive at Forna’s The Gilded Ones since the text is replete with postmodernist aspects. The study is instrumental in addressing the fluidity of identity from a numinous paradigm allowing the physical or reality and phantasmagoria to conflate. The paper avers that Forna in her selected text, encapsulates the mechanics and aspects of Gothic-postmodernism which captures succinctly issues contemporaneous with the postmodern society. Gothic aesthetics have been used to dignify and elevate the history of a community. It is hoped that the study makes significant contribution on the dialectics surrounding identity as it voices postmodern fears. The study is instrumental in rooting for the recognition of Africa’s postmodern genre.

Migration and the Anxieties of Belonging: Diasporic Identity in Ike Oguine’s a Squatter’s Tale and Cristina Farah’s Little Mother

2024-07-08T13:44:41Z

Migration and the Anxieties of Belonging: Diasporic Identity in Ike Oguine’s a Squatter’s Tale and Cristina Farah’s Little Mother Phelix Mulunda Nasiombe, Prof. Nicholas Kamau Goro, PhD, Dr. Jane Wanjiru Mugo, PhD This article examines the aftermath of the movement of Africans to the West. Many Africans have continued to migrate from their African countries to Western countries for a variety of reasons; employment, education, exiles seeking asylum. Basically, the diaspora has morphed from involuntary or forceful migration to voluntary. By and large, this movement, which in a way is a self-displacement and forceful displacement, impacts the diasporans’ attachment to their homelands and hostlands. The attachment or lack of it brings out the unbelonging and belonging to the homelands and hostlands. Diasporans are people who have migrated from their home of origin. These are people who are trying to assimilate and or attempting to settle in their new lands. This articleis a qualitative and library-based research which aims to discuss Ike Oguine’s a Squatter’s Tale and Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother. The study employs post-colonial and psychoanalytic theories within the interpretivist approach. This approach focuses on the meaning attributed to attitudes, relationships and occurrences. The interpretive method assumes that social phenomena are constructs that are negotiated and widely shared. This study focuses on the characters’ sense of belonging and unbelonging to the homelands and the hostlands as well as their otherization. This study explores the prejudices, discriminations and racism the diasporans are subjected to which culminates into the unbelongingness. Consequently, the diasporans are subjected to alienation, which is a prime catalyst for otherization, marginalization, exclusion and segregation in Western countries. Besides, the people in the homelands might erase the diasporans from their memories.

ArticleReconfiguring Gothic-Postmodernism: A Reading of Namina Forna’s (2021) The Gilded Ones

2024-02-28T07:21:07Z

ArticleReconfiguring Gothic-Postmodernism: A Reading of Namina Forna’s (2021) The Gilded Ones Julius Kipkorir A. Chepkwony*& Prof. Nabea Wendo, PhD This paper explores Namina Forna’s (2021) debut novel, The Gilded Ones, as manifesting postmodern aspects which allow the text to comment on twenty-first-century life. Forna employs certain parameters of postmodernism that elucidate the postmodern lifestyle. Anchored on the bedrock of postmodernism, this paper dissects the selected text in order to reveal an artistic trajectory that captures the pulse and the tempor contemporaneous with postmodern life. Postmodernism has brought a revolution in the way a text is appreciated since it rejects the limiting boundaries of art and allows plurality of interpretations. Locating Forna’s text, The Gilded Ones within postmodernism theory, this paper employed a library-based close reading to explore the rejuvenation of horrors and fears encapsulated in the twenty first century. It engaged an interpretivist research design that allowed data to be chiselled out of primary text and coded for interpretation. Judgmental sampling was done to arrive at Forna’s The Gilded Ones since the text is replete with postmodernist aspects. The study is instrumental in addressing the fluidity of identity from a numinous paradigm allowing the physical or reality and phantasmagoria to conflate. The paper avers that Forna in her selected text,encapsulates the mechanics and aspects of Gothic-postmodernism which captures succinctlyissues contemporaneouswith the postmodern society. Gothic aesthetics have been used to dignify and elevate the history of a community. It is hoped that the study makes significant contribution on the dialectics surrounding identity as it voices postmodern fears. The study is instrumental in rooting for the recognition of Africa’s postmodern genre.