Arua E Arua
Biographic Data
| ID | 197936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arua E Arua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arua E |
| FAMILY NAME | Arua |
| SIGNATURE | ARUA A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Botswana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5438-0334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Reading Behavior of Junior Secondary Students During School Holidays in Botswana
Botswana's reading culture has captured the attention of reading experts in the country for more than two decades. The survey reported in this article involved 121 junior students (aged 12 to 15 years) from two private and two government‐aided secondary schools. The results indicate that a majority of the students read during school holidays; that they engaged in both academic and leisure reading; that they read at home rather than at the library…
Botswana English
The paper discusses some of the syntactic and lexical features of Botswana English. The syntactic features are the tag question isn't it? and the conversational tag is it? , the exclamation Sharp! , the indefinite pronoun phrase the other one , the dangling modifier, the inversion of auxiliary verb and subject in reported questions, the redundant use of personal / reflexive pronouns, the use of the negative auxiliary don't, the conflation of the …
Patterns of Language Use and Language Preference of some Children and their Parents in Botswana
This paper examines the patterns of language use and language preference of some children aged 6–15 and their parents at the University of Botswana. The results indicate that the majority of the children speak Setswana and English, despite the fact that they come from different language groups. However, Setswana, the national language, is the more widely spoken. Very few of the children speak languages such as Ikalanga, Otjiherero and Sesotho and…
Attitudes of Parents to Their Children's Use of English in Botswana1
The paper reports a positive shift in the attitudes of some Batswana towards the local variety of English here described as Botswana English. The new attitude is the result of familiarity with the variety in the last decade or so. It is also the result of the belief that the variety is inherently good and that its users, especially children, use it in a communicatively competent manner. In addition, the respondents believe that not only is the va…
Some syntactic features of Swazi English
The paper describes some stable syntactic features of Swazi English. It is thus an extension and elaboration of the discussion in Kamwangamalu and Chisanga's characterization of Swazi English. They point out that the wh-word is placed last in question formation, time expressions such as 'I met him last of last week' occur and idiomatic expressions such as 'To see once is to see twice' are used. This paper discusses, among others, the use of the m…
Botswana English
The paper discusses some of the syntactic and lexical features of Botswana English. The syntactic features are the tag question isn't it? and the conversational tag is it? , the exclamation Sharp! , the indefinite pronoun phrase the other one , the dangling modifier, the inversion of auxiliary verb and subject in reported questions, the redundant use of personal / reflexive pronouns, the use of the negative auxiliary don't, the conflation of the …
Patterns of Language Use and Language Preference of some Children and their Parents in Botswana
This paper examines the patterns of language use and language preference of some children aged 6–15 and their parents at the University of Botswana. The results indicate that the majority of the children speak Setswana and English, despite the fact that they come from different language groups. However, Setswana, the national language, is the more widely spoken. Very few of the children speak languages such as Ikalanga, Otjiherero and Sesotho and…
Attitudes of Parents to Their Children's Use of English in Botswana1
The paper reports a positive shift in the attitudes of some Batswana towards the local variety of English here described as Botswana English. The new attitude is the result of familiarity with the variety in the last decade or so. It is also the result of the belief that the variety is inherently good and that its users, especially children, use it in a communicatively competent manner. In addition, the respondents believe that not only is the va…
Some syntactic features of Swazi English
The paper describes some stable syntactic features of Swazi English. It is thus an extension and elaboration of the discussion in Kamwangamalu and Chisanga's characterization of Swazi English. They point out that the wh-word is placed last in question formation, time expressions such as 'I met him last of last week' occur and idiomatic expressions such as 'To see once is to see twice' are used. This paper discusses, among others, the use of the m…
Some syntactic features of Swazi English
The paper describes some stable syntactic features of Swazi English. It is thus an extension and elaboration of the discussion in Kamwangamalu and Chisanga's characterization of Swazi English. They point out that the wh-word is placed last in question formation, time expressions such as 'I met him last of last week' occur and idiomatic expressions such as 'To see once is to see twice' are used. This paper discusses, among others, the use of the m…
Attitudes of Parents to Their Children's Use of English in Botswana1
The paper reports a positive shift in the attitudes of some Batswana towards the local variety of English here described as Botswana English. The new attitude is the result of familiarity with the variety in the last decade or so. It is also the result of the belief that the variety is inherently good and that its users, especially children, use it in a communicatively competent manner. In addition, the respondents believe that not only is the va…
Patterns of Language Use and Language Preference of some Children and their Parents in Botswana
This paper examines the patterns of language use and language preference of some children aged 6–15 and their parents at the University of Botswana. The results indicate that the majority of the children speak Setswana and English, despite the fact that they come from different language groups. However, Setswana, the national language, is the more widely spoken. Very few of the children speak languages such as Ikalanga, Otjiherero and Sesotho and…
Botswana English
The paper discusses some of the syntactic and lexical features of Botswana English. The syntactic features are the tag question isn't it? and the conversational tag is it? , the exclamation Sharp! , the indefinite pronoun phrase the other one , the dangling modifier, the inversion of auxiliary verb and subject in reported questions, the redundant use of personal / reflexive pronouns, the use of the negative auxiliary don't, the conflation of the …
The Reading Behavior of Junior Secondary Students During School Holidays in Botswana
Botswana's reading culture has captured the attention of reading experts in the country for more than two decades. The survey reported in this article involved 121 junior students (aged 12 to 15 years) from two private and two government‐aided secondary schools. The results indicate that a majority of the students read during school holidays; that they engaged in both academic and leisure reading; that they read at home rather than at the library…
Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Adjective (1 work) · Adverbial (1 work) · Conflation (1 work)