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Anna, Ahana And The Yellow Wallpaper: A Sociological Reflection On Fictional Filmmaking, Tanni Chaudhuri

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

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A Study Of Sanchipat Manuscripts Found In Assam: Techniques Adopted For Preventive Conservation Of Manuscripts By Different Institutes Of This Region, Prarthana Borthakur

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: The present study is made to document old and rare Sanchipat manuscript found in different parts of Assam and to highlight on the role institutions of this region are playing in creating awareness among the local people regarding its significance.

Methodology: For the present study, information is collected through personal interview with management authority of The Research institutes and Museum. Secondary sources (Books, e- journals, Newspapers) are also been consulted for obtaining secondary information.

Findings: reveals that numerous important manuscripts are lying untouched and in deteriorating condition which needs to be taken care of in order to …

Classroom Management, Stevie Auld Brinkerhoff

Michigan Reading Journal

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The Formation Of Grammatical Competence Of Pupils Of Secondary School In Teaching English As A Foreignlanguage, Feruza Erkulova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

In our modern society, the problem of the formation of grammatical competence as one of the leading components of language teaching and personality development is important in ensuring the effective use of communication. The new refreshed law “on education”, State Educational Standards, Action Strategy for the Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan and other reforms on developing educational system of our country reflect the changes that have occurred in education over the past years where the practical aspect of teaching a language in secondary school is strengthened, requirements to the formation of the communicative competence of pupils, guidelines are defined …

Chunking Language For Efl Classroоm Learners, Makhliyo Umarkulova

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

In this article it is examined how Chunking Language is perceived by online EFL students, and analyzed how this strategy enriches students’ vocabulary based on their ideas and experiences in online classes. The study used a qualitative research methodology through thematic analysis, where descriptive analysis was performed on the responses. Interview guide questions were used to explore participants’ insights and ideas on how to use the strategy. The findings showed that most EFL students fully understand the importance of vocabulary, but it was very difficult to use them in sentences. In addition, participants adopted Chunking Language as a life strategy …

Some Techniques Used To Collect Toponyms, Gulnoza Ganiyeva

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

It is known that toponyms are a unique spiritual heritage of each nation and are linguistic units that speak about the past, way of life, culture of this nation. Collecting toponyms and sorting them into a collection takes a long time. This article presents some common and effective methods for collecting toponyms. The procedure for using each method is mentioned and explained with examples. The necessary resources have also been provided. We hope that these methods will be of great help in collecting toponyms.

Discourse As A Unit Of Linguistics, Zulfizar Yakhshieva

Mental Enlightenment Scientific-Methodological Journal

The present article is devoted to the culture, as a specific form of human relations, is represented by objects, actions, words and that the cross-cultural communication this is the process of direct interaction of cultures. Conversational analysis and discursive analysis are general, and the basis for the study is the selection of natural real dialogues. The analysis of conjugation offers to consider dialogical relations in their specific manifestation. Discursive analysis includes the study of the strategies and intentions of the speakers, the processes of intelligence: ethnographic, psychological and socio-cultural rules and strategies for the formation and understanding of speech. The …

Incidental Acquisition Of Multiword Expressions Through Audiovisual Input: The Role Of Repetition And Typographic Enhancement, Elvenna Majuddin, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Frank Boers

Education Publications

There has been limited research on the efficacy of captioned second language (L2) television in facilitating the incidental acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs). The present study aims to fill this gap. Additionally, this study examined the role of typographic enhancement and repetition. One-hundred and twenty-two L2 learners were assigned to one of six conditions which differed in terms of caption condition (no captions, normal captions, enhanced captions) and the number of times they watched the same video (once, twice). The participants took a cued MWE form recall test before watching the video, and immediately and two weeks after watching it. …

Exploring The Use Of Neural Transformers For Psycholinguistics, Antonio Laverghetta Jr.

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Deep learning has the potential to help solve numerous problems in cognitive science andeducation, by providing us a way to model the cognitive profiles of individual people. If this were possible, it would allow us to design targeted tests and suggest specific remediation based on each individual’s needs. On the flip side, employing techniques from psychology can give us insight into the underlying skillsets neural networks have acquired during training, addressing the interpretability concern. This thesis explores these ideas in the context of transformer language models, which have achieved state-of-the-art results on virtually every natural language processing (NLP) task. First, …

Free To Hate: Hate Crimes' Intertwinement With The Evolution Of Free Speech In The United States, Lee F. Paulson

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

In response to the growing tension between civil liberties and civil rights, this research investigates the relationship between the relative expansiveness of free speech and a the nationwide propensity for hate crimes. I argue that government’s legal limitations of speech influence the development of linguistic and hierarchical norms in a national culture. Given structural inequality’s association to violence and crimes of intimidation, I hypothesize that as the government expands the legal bounds of free speech, the national propensity for hate crimes decreases. Text analyses of 50 influential freedom of expression rulings in the United States (U.S.) Supreme Court from 1919-2019 …

The Guardian, Week Of March 15, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of March 15, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Learn, Try, Repeat: Experiential Learning In Adult Second Language Acquisition Of Spanish In Higher Education, Veronica Miller

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

The purpose of this thesis is to synthesize research of experiential learning for adult Spanish learners in higher education to identify important takeaways and propose draft curriculum to improve acquisition for learners through experience-based and hands-on practices. Hopefully, this will aid in understanding, identify gaps in existing research, and better inform lesson-planning for instructors. My research does not include any comparison to other languages or other levels of education. I approach the issue through exploratory and descriptive research through open-source data retrieval by information obtained from governmental and nongovernmental resources.

Employee Motivation And Job Satisfaction In Academic Libraries In Ghana: A Comparative Study Of Sam Jonah And Osagyefo Libraries, Prince Charles Lawson Mr., Akwasi Duffour Frimpong Mr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT

This study compared the extent to which employee motivation and job satisfaction promote productivity among the staff of Sam Jonah and Osagyefo libraries. The study used a cross-sectional survey design. Census sampling and a questionnaire were used to collect data from 184 library staff of both Sam Jonah and Osagyefo libraries in Ghana based on the objectives identified. The study revealed that hygiene factors such as salary, working conditions, supervision, policies, interpersonal relation, security, and fringe benefits could serve as determinants of job satisfaction of staff of Sam Jonah and Osagyefo libraries. Also, motivation was identified to be a …

Scrutinizing Cheating Behavior Among Efl Students At Islamic Higher Education Institutions In Indonesia, Habiburrahim Habiburrahim, Ika Kana Trisnawati, Yuniarti Yuniarti, Zamzami Zainuddin, Safrul Muluk, Janice Orrell

The Qualitative Report

Cheating has been a significant issue over the years throughout the world, including in Indonesian Higher Education. In this study, we aimed to explore students’ perceptions of cheating, the practices they engage in when they cheat, the factors influencing their behavior, and possible solutions to stop cheating in the context of Islamic Higher Education. This mixed methods research involved 43 undergraduate students in the Department of English Language Education of two Islamic Higher Education institutions: The University of Muhammadiyah Aceh and Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Ar-Raniry Darussalam, Banda Aceh - Indonesia. A questionnaire comprising demographic and cheating related questions was …

Investigating The Effect Of Top-Down And Bottom- Up Processing On Iraqi Efl Learners’ Comprehension Of Vocabulary, Farah Hafedh

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This paper investigates the role of bottom-up and top-down processing of Iraqi EFL learners’ vocabulary comprehension. The researcher conducts two vocabulary tests to university level students. The first test is the Academic Word List test that is used to assess bottom- up vocabulary comprehension while the second one is the Academic Vocabulary Size test that is employed to assess learners’ top-down vocabulary comprehension abilities and to find out whether proficient learners make use of the top-down approach to understand a specific lexical item more than the bottom-up approach. Analysis of the test scores reveals that the bottom-up group slightly outperforms …

An Error Analysis: Iraqi Efl College Learners Problems In British Diphthongs And Triphthongs Pronunciation, Shaymaa M, May Stephan Rezqallah

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This study investigates the difficulties that Iraqi EFL learners face in uttering English British complex vowels; diphthongs and triphthongs in connected speech. It reports on the pronunciation test performed by the fourth level college learners whose Baghdadi Arabic is their mother tongue. Gender is of interest to this study to find out if females experience more hardship and perpetrate more mistakes than females or vice versa. Poor pronunciation leads to miscommunication, that is why this study is concerned with the phonology, and how words are pronounced within sentences, as being the main channel of communication is speech, especially with correct …

Philosophy Of History In E. L. Doctorow’S Welcome To Hard Times And Its Affinities With The Biblical Book Of Ecclesiastes, Hossein Torkamannejad, Zohreh Ramin

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Unlike the majority of E. L. Doctorow’s novels which present a revisionary account of specific periods in American history, his first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, deals with history in a more general and allegorical manner. The narrator of the novel is preoccupied with the nature of history and historical phenomena, and this preoccupation pervades the whole book, from which a philosophy of history can be derived: history is cyclic and it tends to repeat itself in a deterministic fashion. Since Doctorow was an American Jew who was influenced by the Jewish tradition, in this paper, Welcome to Hard …

Argumentative Reporting Paths In Poetic Speech Of Abi Talib (Peace Be Upon Him) The Lamiyah As A Choice, Alaa Ali Abdullah

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Partnership in constructive knowledge is a fashionable feature that becomes commendable after the rapid coordinative development which reflected the broad flexibility of cognitive formations. As we stop on a heritage poetic text, and take an important theory of modern importance to touch its text and inspect it, then we are practicing the previously mentioned partnership.

This study takes with the text of the Lamiyah of Abi Talib (PBUH), the prophet's uncle (PBUH and his fellow people) and imposes it into the argumentative approach in order to deal with it (the text) using the approach's tools represented by the argumentative scale …

A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis Of Characterization In Golding’S Lord Of The Flies, Ahmed T. Srieh, Mahdi I. Kareem

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Characterization is commonly known in stylistics to be the cognitive process in the readers' minds when comprehending a fictional character in a literary work .In one approach, it is assumed that characters are the outcome of the interaction between the words in the text on the one hand and the contents of our heads on the other. This paper is an attempt to understand how characterization is achieved by applying Culpeper’s (2001) model which seems to be to present a method of analysis that is more objective and more systematic in analyzing characters. Two characters are selected for discussion; Ralph …

Evaluating The Activities Of The Arabic Reading Textbook For Sixth Grade Primary Pupils In Terms Of Creative Reading Skills., Azhar Hussein

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study aims to identify the creative thinking skills needed for sixth grade in primary schools and the evaluation of learning activities in Arabic reading Textbook in terms of those skills. To achieve the aims of the study, the researcher uses the method of content analysis which is-one of the descriptive methods by a scientific tool includes the creative skills needed for the sixth-grade primary pupils. After testing the credibility and the stability of the tool, the researcher starts to analyse the activities (sample of study) which are (175) activity in the Arabic Reading textbook for the sixth grade primary …

Investigating Foreign Language Speaking Anxiety Among The Kurdish Efl Students: A Case Study At A Public University, Rawezh Mohammed, Latif Yahya Hamad

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

In the English as a Foreign Language EFL contexts from different settings, the issue of language learning anxiety has been extensively studies and investigated. However, in the Kurdish settings a few studies carried out about this issue, specially about speaking anxiety in English classes. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the level, major factor of foreign language speaking anxiety among the Kurdish EFL students and the students’ perspectives about foreign language speaking anxiety in the context of a university in Kurdistan. For achieving the study purpose, first year students (N=91) from English Department at a state …

Direct Language Learning Strategies In Efl, Zeena Abid Ali

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This present study was designed to investigate the impact of using direct language learning strategies on long term and short term (LT and ST for short) of vocabulary retention of non-specialist EFL learners in Iraq. A total of 60 Iraqi male non-specialist EFL learner’s college between the ages of 19 and 21participated in the study. The data were collected using a questionnaire (five-point rating) from Oxford’s (1990) the Strategy Inventory for the Language Learning (SILL for short / version7). To identify the strategies used, the information gathered was analyzed using descriptive statistics of means, frequency and standard deviation. In direct …

Stylistic Analysis “The Snake”– By D.H. Lawrence, Munna Ibrahim

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Stylistic analysis implies analyzing a poem from the linguistic as well as critical point of view. While the former leads to a better understanding of the devices used and the construction of the poem, the latter enables one to look at the poem from a critical angle. Together, one gets a complete and comprehensive picture of the poem. In stylistics, it is possible to look at a poem from the point of view of graphology, morphology, phonology and lexico-syntactic level. In this paper, the poem “the Snake’ by D. H. Lawrence has been analysed stylistically. It helps the reader to …

"To Live Deliciously": The Imaginary Father In Robert Eggers' The Witch, Charles Hicks

Far West Popular Culture Association Annual Conference

In this essay I re-examine the archetype of the witch, long viewed in scholarship as the antagonist of the Symbolic Order and phallocentric structures of oppression, through an analysis of Robert Eggers’ supernatural horror film, The Witch (2015). Bringing together Julia Kristeva’s work on primary narcissism and identification and Justyna Sempruch’s analysis of the witch as a trace of archaic, semiotic origins, I argue that the witch can be viewed as a representation of the Imaginary Father, the site of maternal desire that assists the child in its transition from the maternal body to the Symbolic. Specifically, this essay analyzes …

Review Of The Journey To The West, Vol. 1, Translated And Edited By Anthony C. Yu, Radovan Škultéty

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This is a critical review of volume 1 of the 2012 revised translation of the classical Chinese vernacular novel Xiyou ji (The Journey to the West) by the late Dr. Anthony Yu (1938 - 2015), former Professor Emeritus in Humanities and in the Divinity School at The University of Chicago. It represents the first of four volumes of a thorough overhaul of the first edition, published originally from 1977 to 1983; this complete edition in 4 volumes and almost 1,900 pages (including extensive introduction, endnotes and index) appeared simultaneously on December 17, 2012. It is a result of …

Trans-Atlantic Interrogation: Fabienne Pasquet’S La Deuxième Mort De Toussaint Louverture, Mariana F. Past

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In “Trans-Atlantic Interrogation: Fabienne Pasquet’s La deuxième mort de Toussaint Louverture,” Mariana Past situates the Haitian-Swiss novelist’s understudied narrative within the context of Caribbean letters and the Haitian literary tradition, then discusses the broader, intertextual implications of Toussaint Louverture’s “second” death for Haiti and the trans-Atlantic world. To what end does Pasquet deploy the aged ghost of a Haitian revolutionary icon being invoked by German Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist in the Fort de Joux castle-cum-prison within France’s remote, mountainous Jura region? What is at stake when the diasporic writer reincarnates a legendary German poet as protagonist, placing him …

Speculative Epistemologies Of Resistance In Hombres De Maíz And Bandarshah, Haifa S. Alfaisal

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his two-part “The literary history of world-systems” Matthew Eatough utilizes world systems theory to examine literary studies. He makes use of Baucom’s “speculative epistemologies” to explore the connection between the global economy speculative financial instruments and the rise of the novel in 18th century. But Eatough is interested in tracing the history of literary studies and world systems theory. In this paper, I use speculative epistemologies to indicate ways of knowing that are speculated in fiction. My starting point is the decolonial critique of world system theory, which I use to formulate border reading; a reading strategy that is …

Hanay Geiogamah’S Body Indian And Foghorn As “Plays With A Purpose”, Danica Čerče

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, “Hanay Geiogamah’s Body Indian and Foghorn as ‘Plays with a Purpose,’” written against the backdrop of critical whiteness studies, Danica Čerče discusses how Geiogamah’s theatrical rhetoric intervenes in the assumptions about whiteness as a static, privilege-granting category and system of dominance. By focusing on various techniques and strategies mobilized to define and affirm Native Americans’ authentic rather than imposed identities, the article shows that humor is one of the prime textual devices in Geiogamah’s plays to renegotiate what Walter Mignolo calls “the racist structure of power.”

Politics Of Evasion And Tales Of Abjection: Postmodern Demythologization In Angela Carter And Ghazaleh Alizadeh, Narges Montakhabi Bakhtvar, Hoda Niknezhad-Ferdos

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Angela Carter and Ghazaleh Alizadeh as the prophetesses of postmodern fairy tales in British and Persian literature re-narrativize these tales as a loophole from socio-political stagnation and cultural paralysis. Evading direct contact with the political jargons of their eras, they seek gender generativity via the fairy tale machine. Alizadeh finds refuge in modernizing Persian fairy tales. Carter chants her frustration at Thatcherism through gender subversion. Carter’s and Alizadeh’s revulsion at the politics of gender in their eras can be read via the duet between the abject and the chora in Kristeva’s thought. It is through the encounter with the external …

Strategies Of (In)Visibility And Resilience: Women Writers In A Digital Era, Miriam Borham-Puyal, Daniel Escandell-Montiel

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Women’s presence in literary history has been particularly conditioned by their place in society and by the limited spheres in which their production was expected to appear (e.g. the sentimental novel, romances or children’s literature). In today’s digital, open and connected society, women continue to face visibility problems in the publishing industry and in the online spaces that grant presence and agency. Their role in cultural creations is still hindered by vertical powers that operate as main censors. This circumstance takes place even in a rhizomatic and decentralized virtual space, where dissident discourses have highlighted it, although without enough discursive …