Papers by Yibeltal Tadele
International Journal Online of Humanities, Nov 30, 2020
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The primary purpose of this study was to explore the Prevalence, Causes and Prevention of Primary... more The primary purpose of this study was to explore the Prevalence, Causes and Prevention of Primary School Dropout in Gurage Zone, Ethiopia. To achieve this objective, the research used descriptive survey research design to gather data from 24 primary schools distributed in 6 districts and 2 City administrations in Gurage Zone. The samples consist of primary school principals, school teachers, district education officers, Parent-Teacher Association members (PTA), dropout students and Zonal education office experts. Questionnaire, interview and document analysis were the data collection tools. The data analysis, interpretation and discussion of the findings indicated the prevalence of school dropout is severe in the study area with average of 5.6% dropout rate, but ranging up to 13.59 % dropout rate. The factors that contributed to school dropout included students‟ low expectation on future success and benefits of education, migration to urban area, poor school environment and parents‟...
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The main purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy beliefs of Guraghe Zone Secondary Scho... more The main purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy beliefs of Guraghe Zone Secondary Schools English Language teachers drawn from seven High Schools in the academic year 2009 E.C. Thirty (30) EFL teachers teaching English language at Secondary and Preparatory Schools located in different Woredas of the Zone participated in filling the questionnaires. The data were collected through a self-report questionnaire consisting of three subscales which in turn comprised of different items. The items in the questionnaires were adapted from the literature in the field. The EFL teachers' perceptions of their teaching efficacy in terms of personal abilities to teach English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and their perceived language proficiency level were assessed. A modified version of the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale (Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk Hoy, 2001 cited in Eslami-Rasekh, Z. & Fatahi Azizullah, 2008) was used to assess efficacy for management, engagement, and teaching stra...
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This paper is based on a pragmatic analysis of Gurage riddles that lay an important role in enlig... more This paper is based on a pragmatic analysis of Gurage riddles that lay an important role in enlightening both children and adults as well. In line with this, it aimed to investigate how Gurage people discuss pragmatic discourses and introduce them into society over riddles. The data were collected through interviews from the local people and documents. The document -‘Yegurage Wemaka’ from which fourteen riddles were collected for analysis was the primary data gathering tool for the study. A purposive sampling technique was employed to choose the informants and the document which clearly contains Gurage riddles. The collected riddles were clustered according to their theme and grammatically founded meaning, and they are transcribed into alphabetic script since they were in Ethiopic scripts. Then, the pragmatic roles of the collected data were analyzed qualitatively from the perspectives of Relevance theory hence, the study focused on the interpretive aspects of riddles. The finding s...
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