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Effects of conversation repair strategies on counselling discourse in secondary schools in Kakamega Central sub-county, Kenya
(Maseno university, 2015)Guidance and counselling programmes in high schools in Kenya are communicative events organised in group or individual sessions to remedy social or academic issues affecting students. Particular breakdowns often arise in ... -
The socio-cultural factors influencing infant feeding practices among HIV positive women attending post-natal clinic at Kisumu East sub-county hospital, Western Kenya
(Maseno University, 2015)Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) intervention is a global health priority, whose aim is to increase child survival and to reduce HIV infections in infants. Reducing post-natal MTCT of HIV especially ... -
The denigration of the male image in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s selected novels
(Maseno University, 2015)This study investigates Marjorie Oludhe’s portrayal of male image in Coming to Birth and The Present Moment. Of primary influence to the study is that little attention has been given to the analysis of women’s writings in ... -
Linguistic naturalization of the English premier league football discourse by Radio jambo, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2015)Cameron (2001) argues that linguistic forms can be manipulated to suit context and serve intended purposes. Although there is evidence of widespread coverage of proceedings of the English Premier League ( EPL) by media in ... -
A discourse analysis of interaction between receptionists and patients in health facilities in Kisumu county, Kenya.
(Maseno University, 2015)Management of healthcare sector is very critical to the healing process. Receptionists are the first point of contact when patients visit health facilities. These receptionists who work in public facilities are employed ... -
Linguistic features of in-group language among construction workers in Gem sub-county, Kenya
(2015)Communication is the essence of human interaction. The nature of communication is dependent on interaction between two or more individuals. Construction sites in Gem sub-County, Kenya bring together a variety of people of ... -
Assessment of utilization of voluntary counseling and Testing services by Maseno University students, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2016)Globally, 4.9 million young people aged between 15-24 years are living with HIV and AIDS, and 75% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. Maseno University students fall in this age bracket. In 2001, Commission for University ... -
Socio-cultural factors influencing access to primary school education by female learners who are physically disabled in Kisumu East Ward, kisumu county Kenya
(Maseno University, 2016)Education is one of the basic human rights. The right to education has been enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Girl child education was identified as the most urgent priority at the World ... -
An analysis of Kenya’s mainstream print media’s usage of objectification and anchoring to represent the Kenyan international criminal court cases in the daily nation and the standard news articles
(Maseno university, 2016)The media play a central role in disseminating information with the aim of creating awareness of topical issues, including legal issues. Various studies have also established that news from the media is the popular source ... -
Factors determining primary school educational access by orphans and vulnerable children in Malanga zone, Siaya county, Kenya
(Maseno university, 2016)In parts of the developing countries, there is low access rate of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in primary education, despite support from the government and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Malanga zone is ... -
Matumizi ya rasilimali za kiswahili za mtandao wa kiakademia na wanafunzi wa kiswahili wa Chuo Kikuu cha Maseno
(Maseno university, 2016)The Internet has a lot of academic resources that are of significance to university students and their research in regard to various courses. However, most studies have indicated that, most university students use the ... -
Social capital for adaptation to climate change in the Mara river basin, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2016)The social context within which climate change is experienced can determine the ease of adapting to the crisis. This has brought to fore the potential that social capital holds in building the adaptive capacity of ... -
Word Level Strategies Used to Attain Functional Lukabras Equivalence in the Translation of Mulembe Fm Luhya Newscasts
(Maseno University, 2017)The role of vernacular FM radio stations as a tool for communicating in Kenya should be underscored. Accordingly, Mulembe FM is a vernacular radio station targeting listeners of the Luhya dialects spoken in Western Kenya ... -
Socio-cultural factors influencing the utilization of first-line Antibiotics in Manyatta 'a' sub-location, Kisumu city, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)ABSTRACT The prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics in Kenya in 2009 was 58.2%, in Nyanza 68.5% and Kisumu 64.8%. Although antibiotics resistance is primarily a medical problem, factors influencing its spread ... -
An evaluation of the determinants of effectiveness of Bilharzia awareness campaigns in Kisumu West sub-county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia), is a one of the major tropical diseases affecting many people in developing countries, and is considered the second most important human parasitic disease after malaria in terms of morbidity ... -
Perception of influence of the soap opera the legal wife on marriages in Kisumu city
(Maseno University, 2017)Television soap operas could have dominated and become the most popular genre in the local television networks despite the presence of other genres in the Kenyan media. It’s possible that the growing rate of broken marriage ... -
Ethnography of woodcarving and basketry in socio-economic enterprises in Kiruhura district, South-Western Uganda
(Maseno University, 2017)Many households in the globe continue to depend on woodcarving and basketry among other forms of traditional material culture to support their daily activities despite competition from factory-made items, whether imported ... -
The effects of livestock rearing on livelihood of the Borana community, Funaan Qumbi village, Marsabit county, Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)Globally it is estimated that pastoralism is practiced by between 200 and 500 million people. In Africa they reside in over 21 countries across the continent. They usually inhabit areas which are hard to carry out other ... -
A Syntactic Analysis of Argument Licensing in Lutsotso Sentence
(Maseno University, 2017)This is a study of the syntax and morphology of argument licensing in Lutsotso, a dialect of Luluhyia language. Luluhyia is an agglutinating language and therefore its morphology is relevant to syntactic derivation. ... -
The Place of Indigenous Theatre in Early Childhood Development in Ugenya Sub-County of Kenya
(Maseno University, 2017)Children’s right to participate in cultural and artistic life is enshrined in policy documents yet in practice, it is only considered when other basic rights have been fulfilled. Theatrical genres in ECD are privileged ...