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A study of students' metalinguistic competence and its probable effect in the Cambridge School Certificate Final Examinations
(Marang: Journal of Language and Literature, http://www.ajol.info/index.php/marang, 2010)
The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which students' understanding of key words in examination questions might influence their performance as illustrated by the number of subjects in which they obtain ...
Learner reading problems: a case of Khoe learners at Junior Secondary School
(University of Botswana, Department of English, http://www.ub.bw, 2010)
This article is part of a larger tracer study that investigated Khoe learners' reading ability of English at junior secondary school in Botswana. The research was carried out at Motshegaletau Primary School and Mothamo ...
The reading behavior of junior secondary students during school holidays in Botswana
(International Reading Association, www.reading.org/, 2011)
Reports of the poor reading culture of Batswana appear periodically in the
popular media, especially the newspapers (see Baputaki, 2006; Hosia, 2007;
Seboni & Swartland, 2009). These impressionistic reports speak of an ...
A Socio-pragmatic analysis of compliment responses among students at the University of Botswana
(University of Malawi, http://www.unima.mw/, 2017)
Using tape-recorded interviews as well as Discourse Completion Tasks on compliment responses as elicitation methods, this study set out to investigate the linguistic resources that students at the University of Botswana ...
Setswana lexical expressions of time
(University of Botswana,www.ub.bw/, 2018)
This paper explores the way time is lexically expressed in Setswana. Using data from a Setswana corpus, the study isolated instances of temporal reference for linguistic analysis.
The paper demonstrates that Setswana ...
Are dialects markers of ethnic identity? The case of Setswana dialects and ethnic groups
(University of Botswana, www.ub.bw, 2019)
Many studies on dialects present language in neat, organised groupings that highlight similar language habits and linguistic features of people who belong to the same social, linguistic or regional group. In that way, ...