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Language specific narrative text structure elements in multilingual children

Tappe, Heike; Hara, Agness (Spil plus, 2013)

The investigation of narrative skills in children is significant in many respects; amongst other things, narratives can yield information about a child’s use of decontextualised, literate language features (Curenton and ...
Nursing education and its impact on patient-healthcare provider communication in Malawian hospitals

Madula, Precious (Academic Journals, 2013-09)

Having good communication skills is essential for healthcare providers to establish good healthcare provider - patient relationships. Good patient-healthcare provider communication has better health outcomes, high ...
Interpersonal Metafunctions in Bingu wa Mutharika’s Second-Term Political Discourse: A Systemic Functional Grammatical Approach

Kondowe, Wellman (Macrothink Institute, 2014)

Modern studies in discourse analysis have witnessed an increasing interest in presidential political speeches. The major argument has been that the presidential speeches are often ideologically loaded. Hence, analyzing ...
Linguistic Analysis of Malawi Political Newspaper Cartoons on President Joyce Banda: Towards Grice’s Conversational Implicature

Kondowe, Wellman; Ngwira, Flemmings Fishani; Madula, Precious (IJHSS, 2014)

The study aims at analysing verbal and nonverbal features of Malawi newspaper political cartoons on how they employ linguistic features in their portrayal of political leaders. Twenty Point of Order cartoons that ...
Presidents and Ideologies: A Transitivity analysis of Bingu wa Mutharika’s inaugural address

Kondowe, Wellman (Science publishing group, 2014)

The study is set to analyse how the third Malawian president Bingu wa Mutharika manipulated language in his second inaugural address to enhance his political ideologies by using Halliday’s transitivity system as a ...
Intercultural Communication Competence and Acculturation among International Students in Central China

Ngwira, Flemmings Fishani; Mapoma, Harold Wilson Tumwitike; Hong, Jianzhong; Sariyo, Sunawan; Kondowe, Wellman (International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies, 2015)

Each year, increasing numbers of international students enroll in Chinese universities, yet no literature is available on their intercultural communication competences (ICC) and acculturation status. The study aimed at ...
Inference generation and text comprehension in bilingual children: A case study

Hara, Agness; Tappe, Heike (AOSIS, 2016)

The current study explores inference-making processes in 10–12-year-old bilingual Malawian children who either listened to stories in their primary language, or L1 (Chichewa), as compared to their secondary language (L2) ...
Facing the Enemy Head-On: The Role of Pasimba Radio Program in Promoting the Fight against HIV and AIDS in Malawi

Madula, Precious; Hong, Yu; Kondowe, Wellman (Scientific research publishing, 2017)

Radio programs are very important in developing countries in informing the masses about public health matters. Their role is quite visible in the fight against HIV/AIDS through dissemination of messages aimed at informing ...
The role of academic emotions on medical and allied health students’ motivated self-regulated learning strategies

Ngwira, Flemmings Fishani; Gu, Chuanhua; Mapoma, Harold Wilson Tumwitike; Kondowe, Wellman (eJM, 2017)

OBJECTIVE: Academic emotions have been found to be important predictors of students’ self-regulation. The goal of this study was to investigate the role of academic emotions on undergraduate students’ self-regulation at ...

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