Literature mirrors society and the two cannot be disconnected. Mine Boy and A Walk in the Night are two tools used by South African writers cum literary critics from other parts of the globe to depict and mirror South African society during Apartheid. This study pinpoints the int...
Underdevelopment of most African countries in spite of their riches is informed by interest, recklessness, and greed played by dishonest and corrupt politicians; neither religion nor ethnic geographies, because other nations like the United States of America and Switzerland exist...
The purpose of this paper was toe stablish a list of the most frequent semantically non-compositional prepositional expressions for EFL undergraduates, who need to read English academic texts in their fields of study. Made up of a preposition and a noun phrase, prepositional expr...
In development, children often use gestures to communicate before they use words. The question is whether these gestures merely precede language development or are fundamentally tied to it. I examined four children making the transition from single words to two-word combinations...
Intuitive response is an antagonistic phenomenon in the stylistic analysis of a literary work. This is given the fact that stylistics relies on tangible linguistic evidence to unfold the writer’s meaning or the communicative purposes of an author. This paper however, examined obj...
Aim: To examine teachers' cognitions and implementations of inductive grammar teaching in Oman. Study Design: This was a qualitative case study. Place and Duration of Study: A 3-month study was conducted at Masoud Bin Ramadan school in Suhar, Oman at the Basic Education level for...
Background: International medical and allied health science students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) speak languages different from the official language (Persian) of the Iranian people. To integrate well into the Iranian community and interact well with patients...
This review article was intended to examine related literature on how the discourse of death and dying is naturalised, normalised and communicated to the target audience as designed and portrayed by the producers of the death announcements. Findings from the critique revealed the...
This paper reports on the review of existing scholarships and research articles on the teaching of English literature. A critical inquiry emerges within the canvass of the English Literature Teaching (ELT), a wide corpus of existing issues, from the prescribed texts to the pedago...
The study looked at the extent to which English language is transformed in the Nigerian society. The paper has been restricted to lexical variation of such ‘Nigerianness’ with particular reference to loanwords and Loanshift and English words whose meaning has been restricted. The...
During the ‘60s and ‘70s social inequalities are obviously the domineering issue in Sociology of Education. The concept of school failure is spread across discussions associated with school. A significant part of the school population has difficulties and in short time they withd...
“The Country of Women: Third World Feminisms in the Legends of Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples,” discusses descriptions about women and sexual attitudes in Taiwanese indigenous legends, as well as compares depictions of the country of women in Taiwanese, Chinese, and English literat...
This paper examines the portrayal of corporal punishment in Mary Karooro Okurut’s The Invisible Weevil [1] and Julius Ocwinyo’s Fate of the Banished [2]. The researchers investigate the issues and challenges surrounding the students who are subjected to corporal punishment as por...
Aim: To investigate the effects of Reader’ Theatre (RT) on reading motivation in English of grade nine Omani male pupils. Also, this research attempts to explore the pupils’ perceptions towards RT approach. Study Design: This was a quasi-experimental research. Place and Duration...
The present study discusses the situation of adopted daughters-in-law in Taiwan. Two novels and six short stories are selected for analyzing the custom of raising adopted daughters-in-law, which is specified to the Han society till nowadays. Moreover, Third Feminisms and Western...