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Comparative Classroom-Based Study on Language Teaching Materials Use
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2023
Pages:
35-38
Received:
22 March 2023
Accepted:
12 April 2023
Published:
3 July 2023
Abstract: This paper aims to explore the effective use of teaching materials from textbooks in the English learning classroom. Undoubtedly, language teaching materials play a significant role for success in language teaching. It’s the same in the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) leaning process. This paper discusses the way English language learning materials function in the three principal areas of classroom ecology: curriculum, classroom discourse, and language acquisition through a comparative classroom-based study of one-unit-learning in the two of the author’s English classes, both which have the similar English language level and capacity. Adaptation of materials is fundamentally acknowledged as important for meeting SLA learners’ needs. In the first classroom language teaching materials on the textbook were used only and fully. In the other classroom language teaching materials on the textbook were adapted by the teacher. Through analyzing the actual patterns of teacher adaptation and the effect on learners, observing learners’ engagement with them, comparing learners’ output and interviewing some students, the study shows that purposefully designed content choices of language teaching materials led to the affordance for more meaningful discourse, more active interaction and more fruitful outcome. The study identifies four main ways of using teaching materials from textbooks in the classroom, including selecting, reordering, revising and supplementing, which are testified workable and practical.
Abstract: This paper aims to explore the effective use of teaching materials from textbooks in the English learning classroom. Undoubtedly, language teaching materials play a significant role for success in language teaching. It’s the same in the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) leaning process. This paper discusses the way English language learning materia...
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The Role of Women in Painting: Unveiling Gender Inequity in Art
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2023
Pages:
39-43
Received:
7 May 2023
Accepted:
25 May 2023
Published:
31 July 2023
Abstract: Women have been seen through the lens of art from the very commencement of civilization. Beauty itself was personified in the form of a woman. An effort is being made to analyse various shades that have been concatenated with her image over the period. Women have been an important part of society. She has played many important roles like homemaker, mother, wife, and at times lover. Women have equally participated in many activities like paintings but never got the recognition that they deserve. The popular paintings of Ajanta paintings have also shown females as highlighting the fertility part in their ample curves. This movement is further explained in the Mauryan and Buddhist periods, where they represented women as the Yogini. Also, in Khajuraho sculptures, women are revealed as Apsaras and Surasundaris who are involved in various activities. Here female nudity has been regarded as a powerful fertility charm. Artists in Rajasthani miniature painting often represented moods (bhava) through a female character known as the Leading lady (nayika). In his paintings, Raja Ravi Verma described the divine aspect of ladies. Amrita Shergil, India's most recognized female artist, also created feminist works. M. F. Hussain's favourite topics were likewise ladies. The representation of women in this situation is cynosure. Women's socioeconomic standing has been mirrored by Indian artists throughout history. However, women in India in the twenty-first century have numerous challenges, and their social standing is rapidly changing. Women in India are now seen not only as nurturers and mothers but also in a variety of important jobs in society. This paper analyses how contemporaries interact in this study.
Abstract: Women have been seen through the lens of art from the very commencement of civilization. Beauty itself was personified in the form of a woman. An effort is being made to analyse various shades that have been concatenated with her image over the period. Women have been an important part of society. She has played many important roles like homemaker,...
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Transgressions and Sanctions in Two Nigerian Novels
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2023
Pages:
44-50
Received:
19 June 2023
Accepted:
11 July 2023
Published:
4 August 2023
Abstract: The Igbos make up one of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria. They are both egalitarian and patriarchal in nature and they believe in the principles of justice and fairness. Consequently, they operate a cultural worldview which compels every member of the society to operate by the society’s rules and standards of behaviour and the transgression of which attracts some sanction. As a patriarchal society, they place a high premium on paternal honour and respect. This is reflected in one of their proverbs: “Nwata tulie nna ya elu, ogodo nna ya ayochie ya anya”. (A child who dishonours his father by treating him like a toy is blinded by the father’s loin cloth/scrotum). This illustrates the fact that the Igbos demand for justice on acts of paternal/parental dishonour. This proverb is brought home in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958, henceforth Things) and Adichie's Purple Hibiscus (2006, henceforth, Purple), two novels set in Igbo community and authored by Igbo writers These two works are related in their heroes’ dishonourable treatment of their fathers and the grievous sanctions that come with such despicable acts. This essay adopts the above Igbo proverb and Jeremy Collier’s view of literature as a discipline that encourages virtue and condemns vice (P. 97). It argues that the protagonists’ transgression of the Igbo code of filial relationship spells their disastrous end, and concludes on the note that Achebe and Adichie, two Nigerian Igbo writers, inscribe their cultural worldview and identity in these novels.
Abstract: The Igbos make up one of the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria. They are both egalitarian and patriarchal in nature and they believe in the principles of justice and fairness. Consequently, they operate a cultural worldview which compels every member of the society to operate by the society’s rules and standards of behaviour and the transgressio...
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Study on Effectiveness of Cooperative Language Learning on Improving Students’ English Speaking Skills; the Case of Guto Adulan Secondary School Grade Ten in Focus
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2023
Pages:
51-59
Received:
27 June 2023
Accepted:
20 July 2023
Published:
9 August 2023
Abstract: This study looked into how effective cooperative learning is in helping students improve their English speaking skills. Guto Adulan high school in West Shoa Zone, Bako Tibe Woreda was chosen as the study site and two EFL teachers and 54 students in grade ten were the participants. Questionnaires, observation and interviews were used as data collection methods and the analysis of the data was done through frequency, percentage and mean score as well as qualitative methods. Results showed that most EFL teachers had been using traditional approaches or teacher-centered language learning methods and the main cause of the low level of cooperative learning usage was the number of students in the classroom, seating arrangements, textbook volumes, misunderstanding of cooperative learning and the students' poor English language background. Suggestions were provided based on the findings to help the effectiveness of cooperative language learning and improve student speaking skills. These include motivating, encouraging and giving attention to group discussions, observing and evaluating group work, conducting feedback in groups, giving teachers more training in this area and students continuing to maintain what they have achieved and having more practice using cooperative learning. Further research on the topic is recommended as well as school management reducing the number of students in the classroom, requesting additional EFL teachers from the concerned body and supervising teachers in the classroom.
Abstract: This study looked into how effective cooperative learning is in helping students improve their English speaking skills. Guto Adulan high school in West Shoa Zone, Bako Tibe Woreda was chosen as the study site and two EFL teachers and 54 students in grade ten were the participants. Questionnaires, observation and interviews were used as data collect...
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Language, Literary Studies and Communication as Stimulants of Peace and Security in Nigeria
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2023
Pages:
60-64
Received:
25 June 2023
Accepted:
24 July 2023
Published:
15 August 2023
Abstract: This paper discusses language, literary studies, and communication as stimulants of peace and security which are very necessary for harmonious living among citizens in Nigeria. In a country devoid of peaceful co-existence among citizens, and insecurity poses menace to lives, properties and national development, the paper seeks to elucidate how language, literary studies, and communication can be utilised as stimulants of peace and security. To achieve this aim, the paper first discusses the intricate relationship among language, literary studies and communication and then establishes how the trio can be utilised to stimulate peace and security in Nigeria. In the light of the efficacy of language, literary studies and communication in stimulating peace and security in Nigeria, the paper recommends that: (a) government and policy makers should support language education nationwide so that all citizens can become adept communicators since effective language use stimulates peace and security; (b) prominence should be accorded to the minor languages used by the various minority groups in the country apart from the three major languages that have been approved by the government; (c) policy makers and individuals should be encouraged to appreciate literary works in order to be expose to the range of cultural norms and values of many ethnic groups in Nigeria, which should be respected and defended; and (d) programmes, conferences, and seminars targeted at the peaceful coexistence of the nation's diverse population should constantly be organized in order to inform and educate members of society on the benefits of peace and security as well as how to handle disagreements amicably. The paper concludes with a call for the Nigerian society to take advantage of the efficacy of language, literary studies, and communication in stimulating peace and security in the country.
Abstract: This paper discusses language, literary studies, and communication as stimulants of peace and security which are very necessary for harmonious living among citizens in Nigeria. In a country devoid of peaceful co-existence among citizens, and insecurity poses menace to lives, properties and national development, the paper seeks to elucidate how lang...
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Repair and Family Resilience in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2023
Pages:
65-71
Received:
3 August 2023
Accepted:
22 August 2023
Published:
31 August 2023
Abstract: Sam Shepard’s family plays, such as Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love, are replete with absent fathers, haunted sons, and marginalized mothers and daughters, all are linked thematically in their examination of familial disintegration in a fractured society. As the conclusion of Shepard’s “family quintet,” A Lie of the Mind (1985) symbolizes a major break in Shepard’s career. The play not only addresses the fragmentation that results from domestic violence, gender conflict, and war trauma, but also explores individual repair and family resilience in the transgenerational transmission of trauma. It represents Shepard’s first clear move away from cultural determinism towards a genuine belief in the potential for personal transformation and the re-establishment of familial connections that are essential to building post-traumatic resilience. In light of the theories of transgenerational trauma and family resilience, this essay will examine the vulnerability and positive adaptation of some of the play’s main characters, who experience traumatic events and then develop effective ways to heal and recover. In the case of the play, Shepard criticizes American cultural heritage that is transmitted through successive generations, especially the Anglo-American cultural ideal of the “rugged individualism” and myths of “invulnerability” and “self-sufficiency,” advocating instead a relational view that emphasizes connectedness and interdependence with others.
Abstract: Sam Shepard’s family plays, such as Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love, are replete with absent fathers, haunted sons, and marginalized mothers and daughters, all are linked thematically in their examination of familial disintegration in a fractured society. As the conclusion of Shepard’s “family quintet,” A Lie...
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The Changing Face of Conjugal Conflicts in Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2023
Pages:
72-76
Received:
10 August 2023
Accepted:
1 September 2023
Published:
14 September 2023
Abstract: Conjugal relationship is one of the basic human relationships which lay the foundation of family life and strengthen family bonding. Marriage is the basis of this relationship-it begins with marriage and ends with death of or divorce from the partner. It is considered to be the most important human relationships as it has a considerable bearing on domestic peace and social integration. Husband and wife are not just sexual partners in a household but two individuals physically, emotionally, financially, and socially interdependent and in serious commitment to each other. Conflicts arising out of the complications in conjugal relationship have been dealt with as an important theme in Indian English novels. Manju Kapur (b. 1948) is one of the reputed living Indian women novelists in English and her novel, the immigrant (2008), which primarily deals with the theme of immigration to Canada, also presents the changing faces of conjugal conflicts concerning a well settled immigrant who joins his family in India to marry an Indian girl, sponsors his wife for immigration to Canada and brings her to Canada as his conjugal partner. The paper seeks to explore the nuances of the conjugal life of the immigrant couple during the transition from nationalization to globalization, which create problems and trigger conflicts in their life abroad.
Abstract: Conjugal relationship is one of the basic human relationships which lay the foundation of family life and strengthen family bonding. Marriage is the basis of this relationship-it begins with marriage and ends with death of or divorce from the partner. It is considered to be the most important human relationships as it has a considerable bearing on ...
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Hierarchy in the Telicity of Mandarin Accomplishments
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2023
Pages:
77-82
Received:
31 August 2023
Accepted:
7 September 2023
Published:
20 September 2023
Abstract: The double-incremental-theme effect suggests that the telicity effect of different incremental objects of accomplishments depends on each other in English. This paper shows that this kind of aspectual effect is not manifested in accomplishments in Mandarin. The assumption is that the telicity effect of different incremental objects of an accomplishment is independent of each other in Mandarin. The quantization of the theme determines the telicity of a motion predicate or a change-of-state predicate, whose telicity is originally supposed to be contributed by the boundedness of the path or the scale of the change of state. When the figure is with quantized reference, a motion predicate in Mandarin is telic whether the path is bounded or not. Likewise, the change-of-state predicate in Mandarin, with a theme of quantized reference, is telic, no matter whether the relevant change of the state on the scale involved is bounded or not. Therefore, this study argues that there is a hierarchy in incremental themes that are co-occurring to contribute to the aspectual effect of accomplishments in Mandarin. For motion predicates and change-of-state predicates in Mandarin, the quantization of the incremental theme is more decisive in determining their telicity than the boundedness of the path or change-of-state in question.
Abstract: The double-incremental-theme effect suggests that the telicity effect of different incremental objects of accomplishments depends on each other in English. This paper shows that this kind of aspectual effect is not manifested in accomplishments in Mandarin. The assumption is that the telicity effect of different incremental objects of an accomplish...
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