REGULATIONS AND SYLLABUS FOR BASIC AND ADVANCE SWAHILI LANGUAGE

FACULTY OF LINGUISTICS

REGULATIONS AND SYLLABUS FOR BASIC AND ADVANCE 

SWAHILI  LANGUAGE

NAME OF COURSE: SWAHILI LANGUAGE

To equip the student with  communication skills, knowledge and values appropriate for effective communication in various fields of Swahili language.

ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT

Faculty of Linguistic Admission & Registration requirements for Ordinary Diploma shall apply.  Student with a certificate in Swahili shall have an added advantage.

COURSE STRUCTURE & DURATION

Faculty of Arts regulations will apply and the duration  is nine  months

EXAMINATIONS REGULATIONS

Regulations governing the Faculty of Arts Examinations conduct shall apply 

Level One  Swahili Language six months

Nouns

Using nouns

Gender

Forming plurals

Articles

Different types of article

The definite article

The indefinite article:

The partitive  article

Adjectives

Using adjectives

Making adjectives agree

Word order with adjectives

Comparatives and superlatives of adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives

Possessive adjectives

Indefinite adjectives

Pronouns

Personal pronouns: subject

Personal pronouns: direct object

Personal pronouns: indirect object .

Emphatic pronouns

Possessive pronouns

Using different types of pronoun together

Indefinite pronouns

Relative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

Verbs

The three conjugations

The present tense

The present tense  (first conjugation) verbs

The present tense (second conjugation) verbs

The present tense (third conjugation) verbs

The present tense: spelling changes in verbs

The present tense: irregular verbs

The imperative

Reflexive verbs

The imperfect tense

The future tense

The conditional

The perfect tense

The pluperfect tense

The passive

The present participle

impersonal verbs

The subjunctive

Verbs followed by an infinitive

Other uses of the infinitive

Negatives

Questions

How to ask a question in French

Question words

Adverbs

How adverbs are used

How adverbs are formed

Comparatives and superlatives of adverbs

Some common adverbs

Word order with adverbs

Prepositions

How prepositions are used in Kiswahili

Some other common prepositions

Prepositions consisting of more than one word

Prepositions after verbs

Prepositions after adjectives

Conjunctions

Some other common conjunctions

The conjunction

Numbers

Level Two and  duration is  three months

DIALOGUE IN FRENCH

Conversational  and  communication skills – participation in simple dialogue, drills in spoken Swahili, making requests, reasons explanation,  Conversation on shopping, sports, professions and handicrafts, diseases, accidents and remedies, furniture & household items, sizes & properties of bodies, virtues & vices, with the shopkeeper, at the hospital, etc

KISWAHILI COMPOSITION

A theoretical survey of various ways to writing compositions, Guided composition, joining simple words & phrases to make sentences and paragraphs, rearranging sentences and expressions to form dialogue completion of statements

KISWAHILI TRANSLATION TO  ENGLISH

Problems of translation (structural & cultural) from one language to another, word for word translation, and figurative translation, simple exercises in translation of short sentences & paragraphs, translating proverbs and wise sayings

Advanced Swahili Language  three  months

ADVANCED SWAHILI GRAMMAR

The declinable and Indeclinable condition, conjugation, derived forms of the trilateral verb, syntactic styles in Swahili (exclamation, surprise & wonder, interrogation, vilification, commendation, comparison, condition), nouns of pre-eminence and degrees of comparison, Adjectives assilimilated to the active participle, Augmented and Unaugmented verbs.

ADVANCED SWAHILI COMPOSITION

Various ways of letter-writing (both official and personal) summary of selected texts, forms of Swahili Prose – writing academic papers, speeches, advertisements, short stories & events, public announcements, notices and occasional greetings & messages. Oral versus Written Communication  good writing style in Written communication, principles of written Communication. overcoming barriers to Effective Written Communication, writing Organization. Writing Style. Making an Argument .Paraphrase and Summary versus Plagiarism

KISWAHILI INTERPRETATION 

Oral & written professional translation of various selected passages of different subjects and interests – translating excerpts from speeches, newspapers, religious books, official documents (constitutions & log books etc)messages principles of verbal communication language can be an obstacle to communication, emphasis strategies ,Improving Verbal Communication

ADVANCED LANGUAGE SKILLS IN KISWAHILI

Reading skills – reading unvowelled materials, reading Swahili newspapers & magazines, writing skills-various handwriting in Swahili, practicing  and writings, listening skills – dictation and audio skills, Swahili parsing and diminutive styles.