Browsing by Author "Msuya, Erasmus Akiley"

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    Descriptive Study of Kiswahili as Kiswahili as a Foreign Language Learners' Motivations: HUFS Case Study
    (Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, College of Humanities, University of Dar es Salaam, 2013) Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
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    Descriptive Study of University of dar es Salaam Students' Errors
    (College of Arts and Social Sciences, 2013) Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
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    EFFECTIVENESS OF FORMAL INSTRUTIONS ON EFL UNIVERSITY WRITING: THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
    (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 2010-12) Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
    This study sought to find out how effective instructions are in promoting language proficiency of EFL Tanzania university students. 350 students from the University of Dar es Salaam participated in the study, guided by four questions focussing on a) students’ overall proficiency after the instruction, b) their proficiency levels across various academic disciplines, and c) across instructional groups, and d) the gender comparison of the observed proficiency. After the pre-test, followed by three weeks of instructions, a post test was administered and the findings suggested marginal increase in students’ written English proficiency with variations between the instructional groups, academic disciplines and gender.
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    EFL Proficiency Testing at the University of Dar es Salaam: Performance of Candidates
    (www.iiste.org, 2016-02) Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
    This study sought to measure the University of Dar es Salaam EFL students’ proficiency so as to get deeper and comprehensive insights of the candidates’ variability in their linguistic ability across test areas, namely; comprehensive reading, writing, listening, and grammar and vocabulary. The variability was in terms of sex and level of education. The study adopted a framework of measurement of proficient levels developed by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) (2012) in which learners are rated at four levels: superior, advanced, intermediate and novice and in which the last three were further subdivided into high, mid and low. 136 Udsm EFL participants were involved in the study. These were test takers who sat for the University of Dar es Salaam proficiency test at different times between 2009 and 2013. These were of different education backgrounds and were picked randomly using their test scripts.The findings showed that, in the whole, the students’ performance was good since all groups of candidates performance ranged from ‘intermediate’ to ‘intermediate proficient levels with Udsm alumni taking the lead with a mean of 85.5% while ELT short term students were the last with a mean score of 56.3%. In terms of gender, males outperformed females in the four out of five groups, even though the difference was only marginal. As for the content areas that were tested, the candidates’ performance was the highest in the area of vocabulary where their overall mean score was 83 while listening was the most underperformed content area with the mean score of 28.
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    Mâatha: Descriptive Study of Litigation among Chasu Speaking People
    (Macrothink Institute, 2014-08) Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
    This paper is a descriptive study of language use by Chasu speaking people of northern dialect in handling litigation. The study is a product of triangulated data from researcher’s participant observation and interview sessions with the key informants, in addition to the researcher’s own knowledge and insights as a native speaker. The findings showed that the Chasu speaking people have elaborate institutionalized language use in handling litigation in which there are a total of thirteen speech events of differing lengths and number of participants. There are also a total of thirty five speech acts that were constituents of different speech events. The patterns and procedures of the speech events are linearly arranged and participant roles clearly defined with clear manifestation of differing power relations.
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    Magnitude and Forms of Linguistic Violence against Teachers in Dar Es Salaam Schools: A Gender Comparison
    (Macrothink Institute, 2016-03) Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
    This study is a descriptive and interpretive account of indirect form of linguistic violence to teachers by their students in 72 males and 35 females) from assorted secondary schools in Dar es Salaam region the majority of whom were, by the time of data gathering, aged between 10 and 19 years. Data were gathered through a questionnaire and non-participatory observation. The findings indicate there the students are engaged in six forms of indirect linguistic violence, namely; sexualizing, pejorizing, stupidizing, feminizing, musculinizing, and animalizing. Further, female teachers are more victims of these forms of violence than their male counterparts at two levels: by being given comparably harsher expressions and by their body parts being referents for insults.
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    Students' Motivation for Academic literacy Course:The Case of the University of dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    (Institute of Middle East Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea, 2010) Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
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    Syntactic Defamiliarization in Charles Mangua’s ‘Son Of Woman’
    (International Centre, 2016-02) Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
    The current study is analytical account of ways in which language is estranged in literary writing. It used “Son of Woman” by a Kenyan novelist, Charles Mangua. The study was delimited to redundancy and word order levels of syntactic defamiliarization. This was achieved by sorting sentences that belonged to the two clusters of syntactic defamiliarization and thereafter different instances of defamiliarization were re-sorted in each cluster in search for evidence of defamiliarization in the ordering of structural strings. The findings show that the novel abounds with different kinds of syntactic defamiliarization, with stylistic deixis and sentential asyndeton being most recurring. It has been concluded that this richness in syntactic craftsmanship for aesthetic ends makes the novel a masterpiece in linguistic witting.
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    USE OF METAPHORS IN FICTIONAL NARRATIVE: A GENREWISE COMPARISON OF SELECTED WORKS BY AFRICAN WRITERS
    (international Academy of Science, Engineering and Teachnology, 2016-06) Msuya, Erasmus Akiley
    This study is a comparative textual analysis of use of metaphors in three literary genres of prose, poetry and drama as represented by one literary work each. The metaphors were identified, isolated from the text, listed down and classified according to their respective categories as guided by Newmark’s (1988) classification of metaphors, namely; adapted metaphors, ii) Cliché metaphors, iii) Dead metaphors, iv) Original metaphors, v) recent metaphors, and vi) Stock or standard metaphors. The overall findings indicate the predominance of poetry, as represented by ‘Song of Lawino’, over other genres in the use of metaphors though not so in similes. The comparative distribution showed that there was rich diversity in and unequal distribution of metaphors both across the genres and across the metaphor types. Cliché Metaphors dominated above all others in the three texts, with the play towering above all else. As for the similes, adapted Metaphors dominated all other with a total of 90 occurrences with the poetry taking the lead. At structural level, as guided by Tarasova’s (1975) typology of metaphors, the findings indicated that there was predominance of metaphors serving the predication function over those with an identifying function, notably in the drama, while structurally, word category was more dominant followed by propositions.