School of Languages, Literature and Communication (SLLC) Collections: Recent submissions
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The effect of early multiple language literacies on learners’ metalinguistic awareness: A cross-linguistic study
(2018-04)This study set out to investigate the causative and predictive power of early simultaneous trilingual literacy on metalinguistic awareness in three (English, French and Kirundi) languages taught in Burundi classrooms. The ... -
Media coverage and HIV/AIDS knowledge gaps in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2016-08)Since the late 1980s, various key players have used the media and other means to educate the Ugandan population about HIV/AIDS. However, little is known about the knowledge disparities within the population and the role ... -
Assessing strategic communication for selected NGOs in Kampala
(Makerere University, 2016-09)Strategic communication has been identified as key in improving stakeholder perceptions, increasing stakeholder confidence, harmonizing organizational communications by preventing contradictory and confusing messaging as ... -
The impact of the catechists’ prophetic ministry on the spiritual life of Bujumbura parish
(Makerere University, 2010-05)This Thesis is intended to explore the impressions of the catechists on the Spiritual life of the people that they minister to. Since then, the catechists have got involved in the work of the parish. It is to this fact ... -
Drama therapy for the formerly abducted children in Agweng camp, Lira District
(Makerere University, 2015-10)This study was an experiment in creative participatory performance as an intervention in the alleviation of post-stress trauma disorder (PSTD) symptoms among children formerly abducted by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance ... -
Impact of front page headlines on the readership of a Newspaper: A case study of Bukedde and New Vision Newspapers
(Makerere University, 2011)This research study set out to find out the effects of front page headlines on the readership of newspapers. In defining the objectives, the research was revolved around the different attributes that are always emphasized ... -
Rethinking health communication to address social contextual barriers to malaria control in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2015-11)The soaring levels of malaria in some sub-Saharan African countries, and Uganda in particular, have raised concern about the need for effective interventions to promote prevention and treatment of this epidemic. The disease ... -
Referring to information source in Kirundi: The case of lexical evidential markers.
(Makerere University, 2014)The aim of the present study was to investigate ‘evidentiality’ or referring to information source in Kirundi, through an appraisal of the evidential function and meaning of four invariable expressions, namely ngo ‘it is ... -
Style and dramatic achievement in John Ruganda’s drama.
(Makerere University, 2014)This dissertation is an investigation of style and dramatic achievement in John Ruganda’s Drama focusing on his six published plays: The Burdens (1972), Black Mamba (1973), Covenant with Death (1973), The Floods (1980), ... -
Performing culture: An analysis of the language of contemporary Okuhingira ceremony among the Banyankore.
(Makerere University, 2014-05)The research set out to investigate the effectiveness of the language used in the performance of the Okuhingira ceremony among the Banyankore. In the study, emphasis was put on the contemporary ceremony of okuhingira and ... -
The concept of power in the praise poetry of the Batoro
(Makerere University, 2010-12)This research examined the concept of power in Ebihaiso, the praise poetry of the Batoro. It drew on Michel Foucault’s theory of power and knowledge which sees power as a network of relationships working through whole ... -
The contribution of basic ecclesial communities to the integral development of Mabonwa parish in light of populorum progressio.
(Makerere University, 2013)In Populorum Progressio no.1, Pope Paul VI declared the intention of the encyclical: The development of those peoples who are striving to escape from hunger, misery, endemic diseases and ignorance; of those who are looking ... -
A formal analysis of intertranslatability of kinship terms: A case study of English and selected African languages
(Makerere University, 2008-12)Anisomorphism exists in kinship translations. The main cause of partial translation of kinship terminology may be linked to differences in material culture, social culture, ideational culture, ecological location and ... -
Taathira za Kinyankore kama lugha ya kwanza kwa mtu anayejifunza Kiswahili.
(Makerere University, 2009)In English the title of this research is THE EFFECT OF RUNYANKORE AS A FIRST LANGUAGE ON SOMEONE LEARNING KISWAHILI. The aim of the study was to find out whether Kiswahili and Runyankore have any similar linguistic components ... -
Testing and its implications in lexicography: A case study of corpus creation in Dhopadhola
(Makerere University, 2011-05)“Testing and its implications in lexicography: a case study of corpus creation in Dhopadhola” is a lexicographical study that demonstrates how a generated language corpus can be used to create more reliable, verifiable and ... -
A comparative study of the causes of household poverty in Bushenyi and Kamuli Districts: An anthropological analysis.
(Makerere University, 2013-04)The research sought to investigate what causes household poverty in Bushenyi and Kamuli Districts and evaluate the poverty reduction programmes that were operational between 1987 and 2010 from an anthropological perspective. ... -
Limits of translatability of language and cultural specificities: A case study of a translation of Runyoro-Rutooro folktales, proverbs and poems into English
(Makerere University, 2012-05)The present study aims at finding out the limits of translatability of language and cultural specificities in Runyoro-Rutooro folktales, proverbs and poems when they are translated into English and discovering ways of ... -
Modern standard logic in Luganda
(Makerere University, 2010-11)This study investigated the problem of expressing modern standard logic in Luganda, a Bantu language widely spoken in Uganda both as a first language and second language with the major aim of showing how a language can be ... -
A comparative study of human rights issues in the novels of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Alex la Guma and Chinua Achebe.
(Makerere University, 2013-09)This study makes a comparative analysis of human rights issues depicted in the novels of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Alex La Guma and Chinua Achebe. It discusses cultural rights violation and notes that in Ngugi and Achebe’s novels ... -
The use of English in institutions of higher learning: A case study of Kigali
(2014-08-06)The English language was adopted as the third official language in Rwanda besides French and Kinyarwanda to accommodate the returning Rwandan refugees in 1994. English became one of the medium of instructions in Rwandan ...