Vol. 10 No. 2 (2022)

Articles

• PEDAGOGICAL PRECISION: INVESTIGATING ORAL CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK PRACTICES AMONG TANZANIAN SECONDARY EDUCATORS

  Felicity Rosemary Kamugisha , Benjamin Elias Mwakatumbula

  This paper investigates the use of oral corrective feedback (OCF) by English language teachers in Tanzanian secondary schools through classroom observation and interviews with teachers and students in two public secondary schools in Dar es Salaam City. The study employs Vygotsky’s Sociocultural

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• CULTIVATING CONFIDENCE: COMPLIMENTS AND POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE IN TANZANIAN SECONDARY EDUCATION

  Cynthia Angelina Rweyemamu

  This study examines the use of compliments as linguistic politeness strategies (PSs) by non-native English-speaking secondary school teachers in Tanzania and its influence on student behavior. The study is guided by Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory and Austin's Speech Act Theory, and data

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• CITING INFLUENCE: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF QUOTATIONS AS TOOLS OF MANIPULATION IN TANZANIAN POLITICS

  Anderson Michael Kyaruzi , Esther Joyce Lema

  This article examines the use of strategic misquotation by Members of Parliament (MPs) during ministerial budget debates in the Tanzanian parliament. Grounded in pragma-dialectics, the study focuses on the extent to which strategic misquotation can be manipulative and fallacious. Analysis of

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• STRUCTURAL SIMPLICITY: MINIMALISM'S IMPACT ON KƗBῳWANI DP ANALYSIS

  Julius Leonard Makene

  This paper explores the Structure of the Determiner Phrase in Kɨbhwanɉi, a Bantu language spoken in the southern highlands of Tanzania, using the Minimalist Approach. The study focuses on establishing the functional categories that head the DP and examining the order of modifiers. Data was

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