- Volume 10, Number 2 (2023)
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 Theory to analyze how teachers handled students’ spoken errors using different strategies and highlights the significance of OCF in promoting self-repair, reducing fossilization of errors and supporting language learning in Tanzanian secondary schools. Results indicate that explicit correction was the most frequently used strategy, while corrective comments were the least frequently used. Additionally, the learners’ levels of language...
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 Hansard transcripts of parliamentary debates in Kiswahili based on annual ministerial budget speeches reveals that MPs employ strategic misquotation to manipulate their political opponents and the electorate. The article argues that strategic misquotation is fallacious when it manipulates the propositional content of the relevant quotation and constitutes a derailment of strategic manoeuvring. The study highlights that authority argumentation could...
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 collected through acceptability judgement, document review, and focus group discussion. Findings reveal that the functional categories that head the DP in Kɨbhwanɉi are augments, prenominal possessive formative -nya, and prenominal demonstratives. Modifiers may range from one to six, yielding the order (DEM)/(AUG)/(DISTR)/(POSS) > N > POSS > QUANT > DEM > NUM > ADJ >...
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 was collected through classroom observation and interviews with 16 teachers in selected schools. Results indicate that teachers used various explicit and implicit compliments as linguistic PSs, positively impacting the classroom by raising student confidence, promoting active participation, and creating a relaxed learning atmosphere. Compliments are described as expressions of positive politeness using linguistic devices that motivate students...