Literature, known for its aestheticality, has been a dominant social science and humanities study field for centuries. People believe it helps the students become proficient in language skills (LSRW). Literature’s textual regimentation and the formalist fallacy of the ‘print-cent...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i1215
Aims: To develop a best-fit model for students’ oral skills using structural equation modeling, to understand the intricate relationship between vocabulary learning strategies, language exposure, language learning beliefs, and oral skills of students and to use the resulting mode...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i1214
In this paper, I seek to demonstrate three key points. That vowel lengthening in EkeGusii, a Kenyan Bantu language, is iconized. That the extent of vowel lengthening in the adjectives shows isomorphic relations between durative vowels and meaning impressions in the sense of struc...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2024/v7i3212
This paper examines the instrumentality of classroom exercises in effective teaching and learning of spoken English. In Nigeria, the curriculum of the Bachelor of Arts (English Language) program reveals that spoken English is crucial in English studies. Courses such as Spoken Eng...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2024/v7i3213
In Shashi Deshpande's novels, the transformative journeys of women protagonists are significantly influenced by the support of fathers and trustworthy friends. Fathers emerge as pivotal figures in fostering self-esteem, a quality often diminished by patriarchal norms and societal...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2024/v7i3211
This paper morpho-semantically analyzed the various global politically-created words during pandemic focusing on neologistic features and semantic changes this plethora of words convey. The researchers used discourse analysis as a research design to analyze these terms integratin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2024/v7i3210
African women writers are committed to defend women perspectives in their writings. They have been trying to defend African women bad conditions due to their different social subjugation. This article explores the representation of child trafficking in Amma Darko’s The Housemaid,...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2024/v7i3209
This paper examines initial consonant mutation in the Sokoto dialect of Fulfulde within the tradition of Optimality Theory. Initial consonant mutation in this dialect is seen to follow the stop – continuant pattern rather than the stop – continuant – nasal pattern found in other...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2024/v7i3208
This study ascertained the phonological characteristics of childcare providers in a province in the middle of the Philippines. Specifically, the goal was to pinpoint the segmental and supra-segmental (stress and intonation) characteristics of the child development workers as well...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2024/v7i3207
Implementing machine learning models to Natural Language Processing (NLP) would be difficult if it has a shortage of thorough research assessing machine-based tools and well-established corpus. Bangla language has only a few annotated datasets and corpus tasks for NLP. This paper...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2024/v7i3206