10 articles in this issue
Atekah Abaalkhail
Suicide notes are considered important texts used to understand the suicidal act. Most studies focused on these notes psychologically to test hypothesis. Less research has been done discursively from the perspective of language studies. The purpose of thi... see more
Md. Masud Rana,Md. Mahmud Hasan Chowdhury
This paper evaluates the scope and relative unfeasibility of communicative language teaching (CLT) that was introduced at higher secondary level in Bangladesh to innovate English language teaching (ELT) by replacing grammar translation method (GTM). To su... see more
Muhammad Hamzah Masood,Shahzeb Shafi
History has witnessed the exploitation of working class at the hands of ruling class since the very beginning of mankind. This exploitation has always led the poor to the state of false consciousness. Karl Marx has pointed out this social injustice in his... see more
Aylar Fallah Vazirabad,Farahman Farrokhi
The present study investigated four methods implemented to improve phrasal verb knowledge by two digital apps among Iranian learner-players. A total of 174 students of intermediate level took part in this mixed-method, quasi-experimental research. The fir... see more
Malik Haroon Afzal,Mohamad Rashidi Mohd Pakri,Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah
According to several theories of recognition it has been established that an individual counts on the feedback of another to seek identity recognition. According to G.W.F. Hegel (1977) the identity of an individual being does not rest solely in himself bu... see more
Hanan Al-Radhi
The present study investigates the possibility of utilizing the four strategic functions of political discourse initiated by Chilton and Schaffner (1997) to analyze media discourse. The paper is concerned with how Cable News Network (CNN) employs the four... see more
Nadia Saeed,Muhammad Ali Shaikh,Stephen John,Kamal Haider
The purpose of this paper was to highlight the miserable plight of women during the Victorian era, the age of social reforms, political improvements, collective welfare, and material prosperity. During this age, Queen Victoria worked on various issues tha... see more
Sepideh Shiri,Hassan Abdilah
In English as a Foreign Language (EFL) settings where English is not the spoken language, Topic Management has been recognised as one of the factors that influence the speaking ability of learners (Du-Babcock, 1999). In Iran, many intermediate EFL learner... see more
Muhammad Imran,Shabbir Ahmad,Muhammad Younas,Samina Khaled
This article aims to discuss Rudyard Kipling’s short story ‘On the City Wall’ (1888) from the trans-cultural perspective by analyzing the tropes of wall and sexuality. Kipling’s attachment to Indian culture and love for it is reflected in his fiction when... see more
Gassim H. Dohal
Hameed goes to the city to sell his crops and buy some goods for his wedding. His fate leads him to meet a thief. He beats the thief and is taken to prison. At the beginning of the story, Khalil I. Al-Fuzai paints a living picture, showing how farmers arr... see more