Vol 11 Issue 2 April 2023-June 2023

Abstract: Four coordinate bilinguals were interviewed. The researcher asked them eight questions and tape-recorded their answers. Later, their answers were carefully interpreted to clarify their bilingual system and its developmental process. The findings suggest crucial information on the paths to developing listening comprehension and oral production.

Keywords: second language acquisition, bilingualism, English as a second language, coordinate bilingual, bilingual education, English education.

Title: The Development of Coordinate Bilingualism and an Investigation into Its System

Author: Kenji Abe

International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research 

ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)

Vol. 11, Issue 2, April 2023 - June 2023

Page No: 26-31

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Published Date: 08-April-2023

Abstract: The Concentration of capital and application of new technologies lay a foundation for global communication. The paper analyses the impacts of global communication on the local culture. Global communication has brought about new media forms and it changes the traditional concept of time-space and geography. The significance of a local culture lies in its distinction and uniqueness. Culture is relatively stable and it changes and develops in a dynamic process in a global communication era. Cultural inclusiveness and openness contribute to its development and vitality in the global-local nexus. The interaction between culture and communication inevitably brings about cultural changes, offers more opportunities to get access to other culture. Confronted with the common global issues, more people with diverse cultural backgrounds increasingly realize the significance of cooperation and coordination. In a community with a shared future for mankind, there is an emerging trend of the coexistence of cultural diversity and convergence on the basis of understanding and selection.

Keywords: global communication; culture; cultural diversity; cultural convergence.

Title: Cultural Diversity and Convergence in a Global Communication Era

Author: Lei Guo

International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research 

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Vol. 11, Issue 2, April 2023 - June 2023

Page No: 21-25

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Published Date: 08-April-2023

Abstract: The aim of study is to provide a systematic review of existing findings of evidence-based interventions on psychological distress among in-school adolescents given the high prevalence of psychological distress among Nigerian adolescent. In this review, studies that focused on cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and psychoeducation (PET) as treatments for psychological distress among the adolescents were searched in the Science Direct, Cochrane, Scopus, PubMed, Psych-Info and Google Scholar databases from time year 2011 to 2022. Within the limited numbers of evidence-based studies in Nigeria, four studies met the inclusion criteria. While two out the four studies adopted brief-CBT, the other two adopted brief-psychoeducation. With treatment effect size (d= .32), after five sessions of each weekly 60minutes, CBT treatment interventions were effective at reducing psychological distress symptoms among adolescents [F(1, 39) = 16.76, p = 0.0001; F(1, 34) = 15.0, p = .0001] given the treatment intervention and control groups pre-test and post-test scores (intervention group scores [pre-test M= 24.30 (SD=6.59) vs. post-test M= 4.60 (SD=7.35); d= 0.32), control group scores [pre-test M= 24.25 (SD=6.06) vs. post-test M= 17.05 (SD=11.17); and intervention scores [pre-test M= 25.3 (SD=8.8) vs. post-test M= 11.8 (SD=9.5), Control group scores [pre-test M= 24.2 (SD=6.1) vs post-test M= 21.1 (SD=7.9)] for the two CBT studies respectively. Psychoeducation was in part not effective at reducing psychological distress symptoms among adolescents [F(1,36) = 1.56, p = 0.22] after three week sessions of 90 minutes with mean difference scores at post-test [treatment group: M=70.92; SD= 43.22) vs control group M=52.00;SD=77.77), p<0.000). The treatment gaps discovered in studies of PET is essentially indicative of further intervention studies in mental health of the adolescents’ population; given the sparseness in experts availability that can administered CBT in schools of low-income countries that Nigeria belong.

Keywords: Psychological distress, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Adolescents, Systematic review, CBT, Psychoeducation.

Title: Systematic Review of Psychotherapeutic Interventions among In-school Adolescents with Psychological Distress

Author: Sylvester Ezechinyere Eze, Susan Olufunmilayo Adeusi, Bolaji Johnson Adesanya, Gboyega Emmanuel Abikoye

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Vol. 11, Issue 2, April 2023 - June 2023

Page No: 9-20

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Published Date: 05-April-2023

Abstract:  This paper was as result of a study conducted to examine the demise of teaching Music and Dance at the College of Educations. Learning Music and Dance at the College of Education can offer students multiple meanings and countless rewards regarding what it means to be an artist and how to use the arts as a tool for expression, inspiration, and activism. The study used questionnaire to collect data from music teachers and music students in order to make contextual conclusions. It was revealed that colleges do not have adequate instruments for music practical performance lesson. Similarly there was generally lack of foundation of the music students at the entry level at the college of education, self-awareness from the students to the capacity of becoming musically informed was absent. It was recommended that Colleges need to have their programmes offered in the colleges updated before opening for online admission. There should be varieties of courses for students to select from the lots. T-TEL and GTEC should see the NACCA components of Music and Dance beyond common to a specialized area for students to equip themselves with the subjects so that the creative art aspect within our world our people would be taught well.

Keywords: UEW, T-TEL, ITE, ToM, GTEC, ITECPD and TVET, PEMD.

Title: DEMISE OF TEACHING MUSIC AND DANCE AT THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION IN GHANA

Author: Felix Danso Kwofie

International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research 

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Vol. 11, Issue 2, April 2023 - June 2023

Page No: 1-8

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Published Date: 04-April-2023