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Étude comparative des présentatifs voici et voila dans le discours oral des guides touristiques et le discours écrit des scripteurs-guides

Bakah, E. K. (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

Cet article examine les manifestations des présentatifs voici et voilà caractérisant le discours oral des guides touristiques et le discours des scripteurs-guides. Quelles fonctions discursives voici et voilà remplissent-ils ...
Enseigner le français langue étrangère (FLE) par le multimédia au Ghana: Implications didactiques et institutionnelles

Kuupole, D.D.; De-Souza, A.Y.M.; Bakah, E.K. (University of Cape Coast, 2008)

L’enseignement du français langue étrangère (FLE) a évolué depuis son introduction au Ghana. Celui-ci a connu les mêmes changements de méthodologies qui ont tous essayé d’apporter des solutions ‘miracles’ aux difficultés ...
Emploi des connecteurs argumentatifs dans les mémoires de licence des apprenants de Français à l’Université de Cape Coast

Bakah, Edem Kwasi; Grey, Jeremy Kwesi Ofori (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

Cette étude examine l’emploi des connecteurs argumentatifs dans les mémoires de Licence des apprenants de français langue étrangère (FLE). Elle se focalise sur le type, la fréquence et l’emploi successif de deux ou trois ...
Discourse of denunciation: a critical reading of Chinua Achebe’s man of the people

Kodah, Mawuloe Koffi (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

Achebe’s narrative text, A Man of The People (1966), is a political satire in which he exposes the intricacies of democratic politics in a Nigerian setting. At the heart of this narrative is a clear denunciation of a ...
Difficultés d’emploi des pronoms personnels COD et COI dans les écrits des étudiants du Département de Français à l’Université de Cape Coast

De-Souza, A.Y.M.; Bakah, E.K. (University of Cape Coast, 2010)

Le français langue étrangère est enseigné au Département de Français de l’Université de Cape Coast (UCC) au Ghana sur une période minimale de 4 ans pour la licence. Comme tout apprenant d’une langue étrangère, les étudiants ...
Democratic illiteracy: A threat to sustainable democracy and peace in Ghana

Kodah, Mawuloe Koffi (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

Following the political instabilities that have characterised Ghana few years after independence from British colonialists, many were those who thought multiparty democratic governance was the surest way to good governance ...
Critical reflections on the destiny of fama as a desecrated prince turned a disgruntled foot-soldier in kourouma’s novel: the Suns of independence

Kodah, Mawuloe Koffi (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

Ahmadou Kourouma, as an exact replica of a foot-soldier in contemporary Ghanaian socioeconomic and political development. In this regard, it draws a parallelism between the character of Fama and a foot-soldier and makes ...
Corruption and democracy as inextricable bed-fellows: a critical reading of money galore and a man of the people

Koda, Mawuloe Koffi; Traore, Moussa (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

Corruption is particularly associated with multiparty democratic governance practices in Africa. Although the phenomenon of corruption can be traced to every human society, irrespective of race or colour, it appears more ...
Articulation entre étude de la langue et étude de la littérature dans les manuels de flei

Kwawuii, Alexander (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

La présente contribution s’appuie sur l’analyse de cinq manuels de français langue étrangère qui tentent d’articuler l’étude de la langue à l’étude des textes littéraires, notamment dans les domaines de la grammaire et du ...
Ideological prostitution as a bane of africa's development: a reading of the suns of independence and tribaliques

Kodah, Mawuloe Koffi; Traore, Moussa (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

One major concern which serves as raw material for literary production for most post-independence African novels is the phenomenon of ideological prostitution. This phenomenon is a direct product of ideological confusion ...
Anaphore nominale dans des récits écrits par des Étudiants Ghanéens : Les effets d’une séquence didactique

Kwawu, Alexander (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

Ce travail vise à évaluer les effets d’une intervention didactique sur l’emploi de ressources lexicales de l’anaphore nominale, dans des récits écrits par des étudiants ghanéens de français langue étrangère. Nous avons ...
When ‘Sir’ and ‘Madam’ are not: address terms and reference terms students use for faculty in a Ghanaian University

Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald; Mwinlaaru, Isaac Nuokyaa-Ire (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

Address terms and reference terms are common but key naming behaviours that are enacted in various social interactions. Thus, unsurprisingly, they have received much attention in sociolinguistic research since the 1960s. ...
Ways of refusing invitations in English among members of a college of education community in Ghana

Sarfo, Emmanuel (University of Cape Coast, 2002)

Refusing an invitation from another person is potentially face-threatening and therefore with knowledge of such potential danger, interlocutors employ different ways of minimising such threats. This paper is an attempt to ...
War on terror: on re-reading Dracula and waiting for the barbarians

Asempasah, Rogers (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

Framed by the emerging emphasis in postcolonial studies on terror and narratives of terror, this paper argues that Waiting for Barbarians (1980; hereafter Barbarians) can be read as a counter discourse of resistance to ...
Variations in ways of refusing requests in english among members of a College Community in Ghana

Sarf, Emmanuel (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

This paper discusses the ways by which members of the Berekum Training College, Ghana refuse requests in English, and how age and socio-economic status affect those refusal forms. Employing the ethnographic research design ...
Using literature and multiple technologies in esl instruction

Traore, Moussa; Kyei-Blankson, Lydia (University of Cape Coast, 2011)

Many instructors are using literary texts along with language structure books in English as a Secondary Language (ESL) classrooms. Since literature is often written to portray a particular cultural or authentic experience, ...
Using instructional technology tools to teach informational texts in Thailand

Keengwe, Jared; Traore, Moussa; Schnellert, Gary (University of Cape Coast, 2012)

This article examines the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) to medical personnel (nurses and doctors) in a hospital in Northern Thailand. The study shows that using technological devices like listening and ...
Towards a decade of synergizing corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis

Nartey, Mark; Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

The incorporation of corpus linguistics (CL) methods within critical discourse analysis (CDA) has gathered momentum in the last decade. This paper surveys studies using this triangulated framework, drawing on a database ...
The use of actually in a non-native English parliamentary context: a corpus study

Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo; Yussif, Ben Kudus (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

This paper explores the syntactic and pragmatic uses of actually as a discourse marker in Ghanaian parliamentary debates. Employing a corpus methodological approach, the paper uses a 1.9 million-word corpus of Ghanaian ...
The trickster as a semiotic figure for construing postcolonial experience: Kwakye’s “The Clothes of Nakedness”

Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.; Nkansah, Samuel K. (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

This essay examines an instance of the use of folklore by writers in postcolonial African societies to problematize postcolonial systems in fiction. The essay discusses how Benjamin Kwakye exploits the trickster character ...

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