The study is on effect of phonics instructional method on pupil’s achievement and interest in reading. The achievement and interest of pupils taught with phonics instructional method were compared with those taught with conventional look and say instructional method. Six research questions were posed and six null hypotheses formulated to gui... Continue Reading
Wannan bincike ya kwatanta borin Hausa da na Gbagyi (Gwari) domin nuna kamanci da bambanci da ke tsakaninsu. Samuwar Iskoki dai wani imani ne da kowace al’adar al’ummar duniya ta yi imani da shi. Imanin mutanen duniya game da Iskoki abu ]aya ne ta fuskar kasancewarsu ~oyayyu, buwayayyu, masu ban tsoro, masu karkatar da mutane, kuma ma... Continue Reading
The research is designed to highlight some major areas in word formation, between Hausa and Bade languages. It is also based on contrastive analysis, where the similarities and dissimilarities are examined. Both primary and secondary sources of data are used for the research. The primary source includes a series of interviews in some Bade communiti... Continue Reading
This study seeks to examine the spoken language used during NTA Kaduna Newsroom Editorial Board Meetings with the aim of describing the nature of its dialogue, providing an assessment of it, and exposing the peculiarities therein. It brings to the fore features that have otherwise not been observed in newsroom dialogue. The usual assumption by disc... Continue Reading
This research titled �“Literary analytical study of the poems of Dayyib Mustapha Zaria contains five chapters. Chapter one is the introduction of the whole work, it provides: The research topic, purpose of the study, aims and objectives, scope and limitations, hypothesis, and research methodology. Chapter two brings about the review of literat... Continue Reading
This thesis has attempted to bring to limelight the history of the people who once occupied the Padur Hill and who have now settled in the present day Shishiri plains which is about three kilometers from the once occupied Padur hill. The only attempt to write the history of the Padur people was that made by Nimzing Sunday on the burial system of th... Continue Reading
This study deploys Historicism as a literary discourse to the analysis of the selected writings of Isidore Okpewho, Elechi Amadi and Biyi Bandele. The study argues that Historicism emerged in the 19th Century as a method of investigating how texts of all kinds come to terms with their putative contexts. In spite of this, the application of Historic... Continue Reading
This work is an attempt to Study and Criticism the Love Poems of Hafiz Chiroma Kabara in order to expose it's literary style and show its relevence to the world of poetry. The first chapter is introduction. The second chapter studies the life history of the poet. The third chapter presents the poetry of the scholar and study criticism its thematic ... Continue Reading
This work is an attempt to Study and Criticism the Love Poems of Hafiz Chiroma Kabara in order to expose it's literary style and show its relevence to the world of poetry. The first chapter is introduction. The second chapter studies the life history of the poet. The third chapter presents the poetry of the scholar and study criticism its thematic ... Continue Reading
Climate change and variability is a global issue that needs to be given proper attention because of its impacts on the agriculture and other aspects of socio-economies. Annual rainfall and temperature data of four decades (1971-2010) for Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State located within Latitude 11o081N and Longitude 07o411E were obtained ... Continue Reading
Cette recherche intitulÃÂ�e : ÂÂ� une ÃÂ�tude comparative des procÃÂ�dÃÂ�s morphologiques du fulfulde et du franÃÂ�ais ÂÂ� est l’aboutissement d’un travail de longue haleine. Nous avons montrÃÂ� que bien que la langue fulfulde soit gÃÂ�ographiquement dispersÃÂ�e avec des potentiels ÃÂ�levÃÂ�s, elle n’a pas attirÃÂ�... Continue Reading
Africa has been portrayed by many scholars as a culture with an insignificant representation of flowers; the proof is in the non representation of flowers in the visual art domain. The research examines the ‘floral gap’ as postulated by Mazrui (2004) and the general assumption that flowers are western not African. Jowit (2010), reports... Continue Reading
The realizations of educational achievements have been a difficult thing all over the world. This is undoubtedly as a result of the approaches used in teaching and learning. The role of teacher to teach and dictate the pace and mode of learning has been an obstacle towards achieving educational goals at various levels of educational system. Student... Continue Reading
This work documents the results and findings obtained from a series of sociolinguistic investigations conducted in the speech communities of Bache and Pan, located respectively in Bassa and Quan-Pan Local Government Areas of Plateau State, Nigeria. In broad outline, it was aimed at highlighting some salient features of the dialectological ecology i... Continue Reading
One of the most intriguing things about language is its redeployment to accomplish a multiplicity of functions by different people in different places at different times. One of such functions of language is humour- making. People often make use of humour in social, political and cultural interactions through the skillful manipulation of diverse st... Continue Reading