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Effects of mother tongue loss on individuals and communities
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
Drawing from the Kenyan experience, this paper seeks to address the situation in which individuals find themselves when they lose their mother tongue, either through language shift, language loss or language death. It thus ...
Orthographies in a rapidly changing world:Negotiated compromises between several parties.
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
This paper addresses the chalenges of orthograpphy development.To do this,it identifies and discussesthe compromises that must be made in terms of technical linguistic work,the practicalities of reading and the negotiation ...
Tracing some support mechanisms in music for the mother tongue experience
(University of Nairobi, 2016)
This paper examines the use of music as a support system in mother tongue acquisition among children. By so doing, the paper traces some of the ways in which language and music interact in order to support competence ...
Inflectional forms of tense and aspect in Ateso
(2015)
This paper is an analysis of tense and aspect in Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic
language. Ateso distinguishes between past and non-past tenses: the past
tense is marked by a low tone on the syllable peaks of the verb, while ...
Determinants for Adoption of Quality Management System in Project Implementation: a Case of Nyandarua County Government Construction Projects, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
The purpose of this study was to establish determinants for adoption of Quality Management System, by assessing the extent to which the system can resolve Projects Implementation challenges in the construction of County ...
A Review of Citizen Librarianship in Academic Libraries in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Citizen librarianship is the involvement of ordinary library users to create, review and share library services and content. Citizen
librarianship emerged from the concept of citizen science in which non-experts are ...
Riparian Zones and Their Role in Enhancing Resilience to Flooding in Urban Areas
(University of Nairobi, 2019)
Resilience has been defined as the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while maintaining the same function, structure and identity. In Nairobi river basin, storm water drains have been developed to ...
Stakeholder Roles, Perceptions and Behaviour towards Conservation of Riparian Zones in Nairobi River Basin
(University of Nairobi, 2020)
Stakeholder participation is key to the determination, use and management of riparian zones. International treaties, conventions and laws as well as the Constitution of Kenya of 2010 are very clear about the inclusion of ...