This paper discusses the effects of poor use of English in academic writing skills committed by undergraduate students in Tanzania when using English for academic writing. This study employed Cognitive Process Theory of writing as its theoretical framework, which assumes that wri...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3289
Kyle Hyacinth Bautista, Marcus Lenier Carillo, Wasim Chikhani, John Bernard Fontanilla, Roi Jendrick Jacinto, Michael Lactao Jr., Anne Loraine Mempin, Engelica Roque, Mirra Andrea Villacorte, Akio Yamashita & Ramil Santos·Asian Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies·2025
Aims: The dynamic nature of social media has given rise to a continuously evolving lexicon that reflects the cultural values, humor, identity, and communicative practices of its users. This study explores the emergent vocabulary among Filipino digital natives by constructing a cu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3288
This study examines the representation of women in Shakespeare’s tragedies with particular emphasis on their silencing, marginalization, and constrained agency. Drawing on feminist literary theory from Butler, Spivak and Lazar and qualitative textual analysis, the research analys...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3287
Language education remains a cornerstone of Nigeria’s cultural identity and socio-economic development. However, persistent currency volatility manifested through naira depreciation, high inflation, and foreign exchange instability poses significant challenges to the implementati...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3286
What happens when voice speaks from the edge of being, when poetic language touches the silence it can no longer master? This article takes up that question by exploring the ontology of poetic voice in conditions of fragmentation, fatigue, and marginality. Through a comparative a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3284
The book White Torture presents the prison narratives of fourteen Iranian women. These women strongly uphold feminist agendas, progressive ideologies, and resist the oppressive regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Their political, religious, and cultural beliefs conflict with...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3283
Vocabulary is very a crucial factor in the process of teaching and learning in second and foreign languages. With the rapid progress in technology, especially the rise of artificial intelligence tools, it's essential to investigate their impact on English language instruction. Ma...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3282
This study examines semiotic representation in basic pupils' mathematics textbooks in Awka, Nigeria from a social semiotic lens. The aim is to show how language, visuals, signs and symbols, as well as colours and framing, serve as veritable tools for examining mathematical practi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3281
A folklore text is a verbal artifact rooted in the oral traditions of a culture and transmitted across generations within a specific community. As elements of the axiological paradigm (a system of culturally shaped values and meanings) such texts play a key role in forming collec...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3280
This study aims to analyze the portrayal of subaltern resistance in Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi and Chotti Munda and His Arrow, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, and Manoranjan Byapari’s Interrogating My Chandal Life, examining how these texts challenge caste, class, and gen...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3279
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic catalysed an unprecedented global shift from traditional classroom instruction to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT), fundamentally altering educational paradigms worldwide. While extensive research has examined immediate pandemic responses, limited...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3278
In the context of India’s rapidly evolving higher education landscape, English literary studies must undergo fundamental transformation to remain socially relevant and professionally viable. This study explores the urgent need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approache...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i3277
Politeness is regarded as a crucial element in building relationships and preventing rudeness in conversations. It is considered as an essential communication strategy, which result in enhancing relationships and creating an environment that can be regarded to be comfortable and...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i2276
This study critically examines the reported crisis in English literature education within UK and Indian universities and focuses on claims of institutional course closures, declining enrolments, and shifting perceptions of disciplinary value. Drawing on eight significant policy a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i2275
Aims: This study examines the intricacies involved in translating Kom birth songs (Njang wayn) into English and whether the translated version can be sung using the Kom traditional air and if they reflect the same linguistic and cultural value of the source culture and whether no...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2025/v8i2274