15 articles in this issue
Alaa Alzahrani
Current English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks have largely adopted the communicative approach by using authentic materials to foster EFL students’ communicative competence. However, the communicative status of Saudi high school English textbooks has b... see more
Ali Albashir Mohammed Alhaj
The current study aims to examine through lexical stylistic analysis and comparison, the differences and the disparateness of meaning and style in rendering the Quranic verbal irony into English, in the work of Mohammed. A.S Abdel Haleem, Mohammed. M Pick... see more
Reema Aldahash,Sultan Altalhab
Saudi EFL learners struggle to read English and encounter obstacles that prevent improvement. Recently, graphic novels were introduced as alternative teaching and learning materials in academic settings. Nevertheless, research in this area remains limited... see more
Zainab Sa’aida
Languages differ as to which sounds are permissible to combine to form onset sequences. The aim of this article is to test two versions of the theory of sonority hierarchy to examine to what extent that they can make correct predictions about permissible ... see more
Badia Hakim
It is a widespread and strongly supported assumption in the educational arena that the integration of technology into language classrooms can lead to improved teaching and learning with a positive impact on language learners’ proficiency level. The curren... see more
Syed Kazim Shah,Aniqa Riaz,Asim Aqeel
The animated cartoons occupy a significant part of a child’s upbringing, but its contents can be considered debatable. Though parents prefer such animations which can protect their children from potentially harmful awkward images in the media, yet the exa... see more
Muhammad Amjad,Adnan Tahir,Ayyaz Qadeer
English language has been a pressing need of people all over the world; so, the experts are making efforts for effective and successful teaching and learning of different language skills through innovations in teaching approaches and methods. As a new tea... see more
Lou Lingling
As Chinese is a language focusing on parataxis, and China is a country with a largely different culture from the western world, the implicit information contained in poems could not be easily perceived by target language readers if it is not properly deli... see more
Nkama Obo Akaji,Samuel Enudi
Over the years, many critics especially of the African extraction, have regarded and described Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as a racist tale based on the manner in which Africa(ns) is/are depicted in the novella. Of greatest importance is the manner in whic... see more
Javed Hussain,Syed Khuram Shahzad,Nadia Sadaf,Saima Irshad,Rana Iqtadar Ahmed
The present study observed the advertisement of Unilever Pakistan Limited from the angle of critical discourse analysis. The study primarily concerned with the usage of language in the commercials of Unilever Pakistan and the tactics used by the advertise... see more
Samah Saleh Alaboudi
The study examines the refusal strategies used by Saudi female speakers of Arabic. More specifically, the study aims at exploring the most frequently used refusal strategies by those speakers and how directness might have an effect on that use. A modified... see more
Munirah AL-Gharib
This text examines the convergent and double-sided relationship between anthropology as an ethnological study, which of necessity uses literary language - and writing itself as a subject for ethnography. Cultural Reader-response theory shows that every te... see more
Soheila Faghfori,Zeinab Chatrzarnegari,Esmaeil Zohdi
In contrast with what is widely emphasized and academically discussed, subalternity emerges in a broad spectrum. The current research discusses sex, gender and sexuality as fertile grounds of subalternity in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex. Although the Clas... see more
Muhammad Hamzah Masood,Shahzeb Shafi,Muhammad Yousaf Rahim,Maqsood Ali Darwesh
Under the shadow of the inescapable fact that learning L2 (Second or Foreign Language) especially English in this global village is mandatory for academia in developing countries, thereupon, Pakistan faces akin conditions where learners are exposed to Urd... see more
Samiya Alam,Aimillia Ramli
In late-nineteenth-century Britain, the surplus number of single women presented an internal crisis that accumulated in a number of debates on the subject in various fields, such as economy and education. While much have been written about these in relati... see more