Research Areas

Academic literacy, Interdisciplinary communication, Intercultural communication, Language and culture, Critical Discourse Analysis, Media discourse, Referential strategies, Second language learning,

Publications

• Journal Article
  Galafa, Beaton, Mtende Wezi Nthara and Madalitso David Mulingo. "Academic Writing for French Language Programs: Undergraduate students in Malawi as a Case Study". Journal of Languages ​​and Translation, 4(1), 1-23 (2024)
  https://doi.org/10.70204/jlt.v4i1.306

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• Journal Article
  Nthara, Mtende Wezi. "Theme-Rheme analysis and ideological representations in Malawian and Zambian online news reporting of Academic Freedom sagas (forthcoming), in Y. Ndasauka and G. Kamchezera (Eds.). Academic Freedom in Africa: The Struggle Rages on". Routledge (2024)
  https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003516248-6

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• Journal Article
  Nthara, Mtende Wezi, and Beaton Galafa. "A biographical reading of David Rubadiri’s An African Thunderstorm and other Poems". LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research 19 (3), 152-170. (2022)
  https://www.ajol.info/index.php/lwati/article/view/232803

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• Book Chapters
  Nthara, Mtende Wezi, and Beaton Galafa. "Erasure of Traditional Medicine in Malawi’s Healthcare Discourse through Language Use." In H. Zriba (Ed.), Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language, 47-70. (2020)
  https://www.academicapress.com/node/448

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• Journal Article
  Galafa, Beaton, Madalitso Mulingo, and Mtende Wezi Nthara. "A Review of the Oxford Chichewa-English/English-Chichewa Dictionary by Steven Paas." International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics (IJTIAL), 1(1), 66-77. (2019)
  https://doi.org/10.4018/IJTIAL.2019010106

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