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A Typological Sketch of Noun Class Structure in Awing
The paper focuses on a description of noun class structure in Awing. From a structural linguistic perspective, the noun phrases in the Awing language are analysed. The structural approach enables us to identify the basic linguistic form which can eventually be analyed through other theoretical approaches like the generative and the minimalist. The research employed the quantitative and qualitative methods. The data for this research was collected based on sample questionnaire in English that enabled the researcher to collect both words, phrases and sentences from different categories of people. Discussions and interviews with both literacy teachers and students during literacy classes were equally held. This data was verified with the language committee and during different seminars organised on the language. The analytical procedure consisted in placing the singular and plural forms of nouns in order to identify their noun class markers. In analysing the nouns, emphasis was laid on noun morphology, noun classes and genders, noun agreement classes and agreement pattern. The various phrase types were identified and analysed structurally. Looking at the overall structure of a noun in Awing as demonstrated with examples in this paper, the Awing language and most grassfield Bantu languages as well as French and English share common characteristics.
Copyright (c) 2026 Akem Shedmankah Helen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Effect of Production-Oriented Approach on College Students’ English Writing Performance
This quasi-experimental study compared the effects of the Production-Oriented Approach (POA) and the traditional Product Approach on college students’ English writing performance. Participants were 58 second-year non-English major students from two intact classes at a university in Hubei Province. The experimental group of 29 students received POA instruction, and the control group of 29 students received Product Approach instruction over a six-week intervention. Writing pretest and posttest were administered. Data were analyzed using independent-samples t-test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and Mann-Whitney U test. Results showed that: (1) there was no significant difference between the two groups in the pretest; (2) the experimental group made significant progress from pretest to posttest, with an effect size of r = 0.77 (large effect), while the control group did not; (3) between-group comparisons revealed that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group in both posttest scores and gain scores, although the effect size for gain scores was r = 0.26 (small effect). It is concluded that POA is statistically superior to the Product Approach. This study provides empirical evidence for the application of POA in writing instruction.
Copyright (c) 2026 Xiaoyu Chen, Manli Long http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Folklore, Agri Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. The Example of Group Farming by Youths in Malun Village.
The study investigates how folklore can contribute to Agri entrepreneurship and enhance sustainable development using the example of group farming by youths in Malun village of the Nun Division of the West region of Cameroon. Many researchers of diverse disciplines have made a lot of efforts to identify obstacles to sustainable development in African Communities. Some have identified certificate-oriented education, lack of basic skills in youths and an enabling political climate as foundations to poverty and the general misery plaguing many African communities but the proposed solutions to these causes seem to either lack adequate implementation, supervision or are not friendly to the environment and its users. Given that there is a huge cry against poverty and food insecurity within this context of the post COVID 19 pandemic, this paper explores the significance of folklore to sustainable development from the perspective of group farming, an indigenous approach to large scale farming and economic growth by youths in Malun village. Approaching the issue of sustainable development from the perspective of folklore has not received adequate scholarly attention from researchers. Through the participant observation and interview methods of data collection and using new historicism and performance theory as our lenses of analysis, the study found out that the oral culture of a people harbours indigenous knowledge systems that form a basis for an advanced technology which can easily be understood from the perspective of the people’s productive life style. The study assumed that group farming, which is an aspect of Malun folklore, practised by youths is a relevant foundation for Agri entrepreneurship, which is a significant machinery in sustainable development.
Copyright (c) 2026 Ngeh Ernestilia Dzekem, Che Churchill Che http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0