KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS
Website: www.ku.ac.ke Tel: 8710901-19 Ext. 57338, 4112
4th Febraury, 2015
NAME
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Juliet Akinyi
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Esther Mwaniki
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Martin Maina
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READER
SUPERVISOR
TOPIC
C50/CE/14024/2009
Dr. Nyamasyo
Dr. Kebeya
Dr. Phyllis Mwangi
Dr. Purity Nthiga
0720 412 795
Dr. Gachara
Dr. Daniel Orwenjo
Dr. Emily Ogutu
Dr. Kenneth Ngure
The assessment of language games used in
teaching language skills in upper primary classes in
Kilifi County.
Face threatening acts in open day discourse.
0708659629
C50/CE/25334/2013
1. The nominal group in Gikuyu Language a
functional grammar approach.
2. The syntax of the cleft construction in
Gikuyu language: A minimalist perspective.
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Williams S.
Kawira
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Susan
W.Wachira
P.hd
Loise Wothaya
Mwangi
Alfred Oluoch
Amollo
John Kavungula
Mutisya
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0720287378
C50/CE/24774/2012
0720899262
C182/26343/2013
0721278974
C50/CE/21238/2013
0713559188
C50/CE/25344/2012
0721 360 313
C50/CE/24434/2013
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Elijah Chege
Ndumia
0714 856140
C50/CE/22829/2011
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Irene Sela
Buteyo
Nancy K.Mose
0723 048 194
C50/CE/24440/2012
0722 928003
C50/CE/24461/2012
Vitalis K.Kandie
P.hd
Christine Kaari
0712 244 480
C82/28531/2014
0716 724 499
C50/CE/21946/2012
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Motivation and language learning strategies used
by secondary school teachers in Tigania West Subcounty.
Vocabulary learning strategies of Kenyan hsk
candidates.
Word formation processes used by matatu Sacco’s
in Nyeri county.
Language in contact: maintenance and shift among
the Nubians of KIbigori in Kisumu county-Kenya.
1. A study of conversational implicature in
the play betrayal in the city by Francis
Imbuga.
2. Use of personal pronouns in political
speeches. A comparative study of the
pronominal choices of two Kenyan
Presidents.
A study on the linguistic bearing of communication
apprehension- a case of form three students in
Mukuuni high School.
A semiotic analysis to the names given to business
premises in Nyeri Town.
Semiotic analysis of names given to selected
private academy schools in Kisii town, Kisii county
and their semantic implications.
Dialectological variations in Tugen Language.
Politeness in salon discourse
A case study Ugweri Market in Embu East.
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Mabua
Margaret
Wanjiku Githui
0722918744
C50/CE/24422/2012
Mwaura Eunice
Njeri
C50/CE/24884/2012
0724317910
The use of language in discrimination of refugees:
A case of refugee students in secondary schools in
Ruiru Sub county.
A comparative study of the use of discourse
markers in reportage and opinion articles in
Kenyan newspapers.
5th February, 2015
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NAME
REG/NO
READER
TOPIC
SUPERVISOR
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Vicky A. Ayara
0717330019
Dr. Ngure
A sociolinguistic Analysis of lexical
borrowing in dholuo.
Dr. Maina Njiri
Poetry comprehemsion practices
among Form Three students of
selected secondary schools in Imenti
North District in Meru County.
Dr. Joyce Wangia
Dr. Shivachi
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3.
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Harun Mugambi
Marete
C50/CE/ 14028/2009
Dr. Nthiga
0715371823
Mr. Gecaga
Otende Lydiah
Anyango
0732625212
Peter Mbugua
C50/26669/2013
C50/CE/ 25343/2013
0722472954
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Rael Mogesi Riro
C50/CE/24446/2012
0721975860
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Doris Atieno Ogilo
C50/24122/2013
0722803 396
Politeness strategies in student’s
utterances in selected District
secondary schools in Rarieda SubCounty.
Language and cultural barriers to
effective screening, prevention and
management of cancer in Kenya.
Cultural borrowing and language
maintence: a study of Igikuria lexical
borrowing from English Language.
PRAGMATICS: Contextualization of
linguistic figurative expressions in
Margaret Ogola’s The River and the
Source.
Ms. F. Owili
Dr. Daniel Orwenjo
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Siele Dorothy
C50/27570/2013
0712614555
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Hellen Ruguru Njiru
C50/CE/25347/2013
0716724499
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Catheline O.Okumu
C50//CE/24466/2012
0721 426922
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Otonde Lydiah
Anyango
C50/CE/25343/2013
Mutta Pili Mohammed
C50/CE/ 24460/2012
0732625 212
0728 573 667
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Martin Maina
C50/CE/25334/2013
An optimality theory Account of vowel
and consonants epenthesis in Kipsigis
Loanwords.
A study of language and genderlanguage usage reflecting Gender Bias
Among the maasai speakers of Meto
village, Kajiado County-Kenya.
An analysis of Lexical and structural
semantic errors in standard seven
pupils’ work: a case of selected schools
in Hamisi Sub- County.
Politeness strategies in student –
Teacher interactions in secondary
school in Rarieda Sub-County.
Language in contact: A study of
language Shift Digo to Kiswahili by the
Digo Speakes in Kwale county Kenya
1. The syntax of the cleft
construction in Gikuyu
language: A minimalist
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perspective.
2. The Nominal group in Gikuyu
language
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Keffa Njeri Rosemary
C50/26671/2013
0722689103
Language choice and use by
multilingual Gikuyu L1 speakers in a
cosmopolitan Setting (Kajiado town)
versus an ancestral setting (kinyona
village).
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Ndua sarah
0721 820 716
A sociolinguistic study on the extent of
phonological encrypting of whatsapp
text messages among members of Juja
preparatory and senior Schools speech
community
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Shelkah Makasi Paul
0722 809 306
Lexical variation in the language used
for instruction by Kenya Police College
instructors.
C50/26199/2013
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Waruru Joyce Wanuyu
C50/CE/24428/2012
0722 444 105
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Murigi Francis mwangi
0721 845 543
Communicative strategies used by
teachers of learners will speech and
language impairment in public primary
schools in Kieni East sub-County, Nyeri
County.
Mistranslation in selected Gikuyu –
English eulogies
6th February 2015
s/no NAME
REG/NO
READER
SUPERVISOR
TOPIC
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C50/23471/2011
Dr. Ayieko
Dr. Ruth Ndung’u
Dr. Nadelenga
Dr. Purity Nthiga
Morpho-phonology of the “gitamanya’Argot of the
‘MATATU’crew of Embu Town
Dr. Ogutu
Dr. Mwangi Gachara
Dr. Gatitu
Dr. Daniel Orwenjo
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Mugendi Nixon Isaiah
Kimwele Muthusi
Okiri Magdaline Were
C50/ 24126/ 2012
0729 880738
C50/CE/24649/2012
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Franklin Gikunda
Kithinji
0723090438
Nancy W.Kabutha
0723 542486
C50/CE/24716/2012
C50/CE/14033/2009
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Karanja David Mwaura
0722 553 095
C50/26199/2013
Metaphorical slogans and expressions of the Kenya
Defense Forces A cognitive linguistics Approach.
Teachers perception on the effects of gender
variation on students’ performance in language
Linguistics Activities used in teaching English
pronunciation to form one student in imenti south
District.
Cultivating gender equality in Gikuyu language. A
case study in selected vernacular Gikuyu radio
Stations.
Language shift among school going teenage Kikuyu
migrants in Eldoret Municipality Uasin gishu
County,Kenya.
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Ogaye Caroline Akinyi
0725481644
C50/CE/KER/24914/2013
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Kaberere Ann
0720343529
C50/CE/26126/2011
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Sandra Magondu
0722 592876
C50/CE/25273/2013
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Monica Wairimu
Mung’ei
0711656511
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Chepchirchir Hellen
C50/CE/24425/2012
12.
Kirui Julius Kipngeno
0725 410 252
C50/CE/24431/2012
C50/KER/CE/26665/2013
Gender differences in the use of Euphemisms among
Dholuo native speakers in Nyakach District.
A selected evaluation of Gikuyu teaching materials as
presented in Kenyan class three text books.
Kikuyu tonology in an optimality theoretic
framework.
Language adoption by a 2 year old child from the
parents and care giver
Language change: a case of lexical expansion of
nominal in Kipsigis language
1. Analysis of turn taking in a small group
discussion.
2. The role of culture in the naming system
among the ogiek of Kenya
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Naomi Chelangat
Cheroigin
O720310115
C50/KER/CE/24916/2013
A Discourse analysis of staffroom discourses. A case
of teacher development issues within staffroom in
public secondary schools in Cheborgei Division of
Kericho County.
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Betty Cherono
C50/KER/CE/26667/2013
1. To evaluate language borrowing on kipsigis
native language.
2. Determine the effect of translation
techniques of the binle among the kipsigis
user’s in Bomet County
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Munyaka Jacinta
Nthuka
C50/CE/24432/2012
Mutunga Ngina
Carolyne
C50/CE/25342/2013
Margaret Akoth
Abungu
C50/ce/24251/2013
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0727431174
0723495141
A Enclave of the Maa speakers among the Akamba at
email in Makueni County.
Language use in”Ndwae ngone Mwaitu’ Speech
event.
Attitudes of the clientele towards code-mixing used
as a language of advertisement by selected banks in
Mombasa Town