Greater Swahili – Swahili Varieties in L2+ Swahili Teaching [PDF]
Swahili Forum, 2023 In this paper, I focus on what we could call the ‘myth of Standard Swahili’ and its consequences for language teaching. Instead of distinguishing between ‘standard’ and ‘deviant’ varieties of Swahili, I suggest the term Greater Swahili to designate the whole of the varieties spoken in Africa and the African diaspora.
Waldburger, Daniela
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Language and social structure : A case study of the tourism industry in Kenya [PDF]
, 1983 In this study I investigate the question who speaks which language to whom and for what purpose on the basis of a conceptualization of society which differs from previous sociolinguistic research.
Crampton, Diana
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Modality in Swahili : epistemic modal adverbs in Swahili : insights from a historical Swahili corpus
In this study, we explore the main set of adverbs – i.e., free-standing, monorhematic and invariable non-nominal modifiers; Ramat & Ricca 1998 – used to express epistemic possibility in Swahili. The adverbs in question are pengine, huenda and lab(u)da.
Bernander, Rasmus +3 more
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LEMMATIC INFLUENCE ON VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AMONG L3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN TANZANIA
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021 This paper investigates cross-linguistic influence (CLI) on the acquisition of English vocabulary by third language (L3) learners in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aims to establish how lemmatic CLI from L1 and L2 influences L3 in a multilingual rural
Lydia Kaoo, Rose Acen Upor
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Data in Brief, 2020 Natural Language Processing requires data to be pre-processed to guarantee quality models in different machine learning tasks. However, Swahili language have been disadvantaged and is classified as low resource language because of inadequate data for NLP
Bernard Masua, Noel Masasi
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Corrigendum: Translation and adaptation of the stroke-specific quality of life scale into Swahili
South African Journal of Physiotherapy, 2023 No abstract available.
Emily M. Nyanumba +3 more
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Styles of Swahili carving. [PDF]
, 1996 As a woodcarver since the age of fifteen, I have been a keen observer of carving patterns and motifs practiced by contemporary Swahili wood carvers. In my investigations, I discovered that carvers along the coast of East Africa, do not practice a uniform
Athman, Athman Hussein
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Les difficultés linguistiques rencontrées par les étudiants burundais apprenant le swahili oral [PDF]
AkofenaRésumé : Cet article vise à examiner les difficultés linguistiques rencontrées par les étudiants burundais lors de l’apprentissage du swahili oral. Les données sont issues de l’observation des leçons en classe de swahili oral dans trois classes des trois
Mathieu BAMPORUBUSA, George ALAO & Odile RACINE
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Analysis of Grammatical and Lexical Errors in Writing Made by English-Speaking Learners of FL Swahili [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2020 This study applied the Error Analysis approach (Corder, 1967) to analyze written samples of 17 foreign language learners of Swahili who were enrolled in an intensive summer language program in one large university in the United States. Data was collected
Magdalyne Oguti Akiding
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Enhancing African low-resource languages: Swahili data for language modelling
Data in Brief, 2020 Language modelling using neural networks requires adequate data to guarantee quality word representation which is important for natural language processing (NLP) tasks.
Casper S. Shikali, Refuoe Mokhosi
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