UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
DAR ES SALAAM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (DUCE)

RODRICK G. NDOMBA

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literature, Dar Es Salaam University College Of Education
Education:

2013-2017 PhD in Global Human Development (Linguistics), University College Dublin, Ireland 2004-2006: Master of Arts in Linguistics, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 1998-2002: Bachelor of Arts with Education, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanza

Teaching:

  • Linguistic Theory
  • Linguistic Structure
  • Social and Biological Aspects of Language
  • Professional Communication
  • Bantu Language Structures

Research:

  • Linguistic Theory
  • Language in Education
  • Syntactic Theory
  • Bantu linguistics

Projects:

1. April-June, 2018, Principal Researcher, The Assessment of Problems and Challenges in the Teaching and Learning of English and Swahili Languages and Strategies for Redress (UNESCO, Dar es Salaam).

2. June 23rd-30th 2015, Assistant Researcher, the 18th Research and Education for Democracy in Tanzania (REDET, Dar es Salaam) Opinion Poll Survey.

3. September 2015-February 2016, Researcher, Study of the Countrywide Out-of-school Children (UNICEF, Dar es Salaam).

Publications:

1. Ndomba, R. G. & A. Chipalo (2020). nP Raising in Bantu languages: Evidence from augmented nominals. Kioo cha Lugha Journal TATAKI (forthcoming)

2. Ndomba, R. G. (2020). Deriving object relatives in Kiswahili Determiner Phrases. Utafiti Journal of African Perspectives, 15 (1), pp 117-141.

3. Ndomba, R. G. (2018). Agreement between nPs and Modifiers in Bantu DPs. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences. 7 (1), pp 98 – 117.

4. Ndomba, R. G. (2017). The Definite Article in Swahili. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education. 11 (2), pp 22 – 44.

5.Ndomba, R. G (2017). The Structure and Derivation of the Determiner Phrase in Swahili. Unpublished PhD Thesis. University College Dublin.  

6.Ndomba, R. (2015). Are we experiencing a ‘post-method’ era in second language teaching?

                Journal of Education, Humanities, and Sciences, 3 (1), pp 75 - 90.

7.Ndomba, R. G. (2014). Reading and Literature: Methodological Perspectives. Kasenyenda

                Tanzania; Iringa.

8. Ndomba, R. G (2006). Samatengo noun phrase structure. Unpublished M.A Dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam.