Journal of English Language and Literature (JELL)
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ESP Need Analysis: A Study of English Language Learning of Business Students
No full textThe present study explores the need and use of English language for business students at university level. For that purpose, pedagogical knowledge and existing curriculum has been analysed and also investigated the current needs of students lastly recommended end dealing with the learner requests regarding the connection circumstances and different obstructions. A questionnaire was administered containing 19 close ended items. This investigation persuaded by the understanding that "Needs investigation is neither one kind of language teaching nor inside the language training, however it will regularly have seen similar to the foundation of ESP and it leads to the engaged course" (Dudley-Evans & St John, 1998). It has been observed that most of the learners need to learn business communication and also such type of English in future for job profession. Basically most of the learners focus on writing skills which facilitate them in the final exam. They have least concerned with speaking skills in the classroom but face difficult when they have to communicate with their clients in practical life. The selected course materials or teacher must have to consult different courses such as text books CD and DVD and also use different materials for the training of people to get a job such as work form, samples and charts of the assignment and statement of course.
Anita Garibaldi: A Brazilian Heroine in North American Literature
No full textThe overarching theme of the present paperwork lies in casting some light to the historic Brazilian character of Anita Garibaldi (1821–1849) in order to draw the public’s attention to distinct perspectives other than the official one. So as to achieve these goals, the romance studied was written by Dorothy Bryant in 1993 and it is called Anita, Anita. With a flowing language, the author was able to present Anita herself, the idealist, the wife, the lover, and the mother. In this literary work she is not shown as a simple shadow of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), her husband, anymore, she is a sensible and political woman who wants to follow what she considers to be fair. Thus, this study consists in a brief discussion concerning possibilities for the historical novel writing and how the preferences chosen by the author might affect the perception of the characters and the historical past itself in the course of History
Probing the Antecedents of Iranian EFL Teachers’ Motivation and Demotivation
No full textTeachers play the focal roles in the lives and learning of the students in their classrooms. They indeed serve many roles including, teaching knowledge to students, mentoring and nurturing students, becoming role models, and creating a friendly and facilitative learning environment. These encompassing roles underscore teachers’ motivational disposition. The present article reports on a qualitative study exploring Iranian EFL teachers’ motivating and demotivating factors. To do so, semi-structured interviews with 9 high school EFL teachers were conducted. The analysis of the interview protocols yielded a number of motivating and demotivating factors. These factors were categorized under three antecedents for motivation and three for demotivation. It was concluded that: a) most of the teachers were dissatisfied with students’ inattention and inapt conduct of school officials or authorities; b) some were dissatisfied with payment and time restrictions; c) in the other hand, most of them were satisfied with students’ enthusiasm; and d) some of them were satisfied with parents’ appreciation
Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Fall of the House of Usher": a Symbol of the Crumbling Borders of American and Psychic Consciousness and the Birth of Gothic Transcendence
No full textBeginning right from the title , “The Fall of the House of Usher”, containing the word house which has been metaphorically used to depict the crumbling down of the house due to incestuous genetic patterns, the whole story is interwoven into the theme of transcendence. Again the word fall itself signifies rebirth. The paper attempts to delve into the concept of gothic transcendence as explored in the story by Poe
Ode in Onia: Reading the Use of Myth and Twinhood in Diana Evans’ 26a
No full textPostcolonial writers have over time engaged in the use of folklore preserved from their precolonial heritage in their works that try to understand the complexities of their postcolonial existence. Such writers have used ancient stories, songs, proverbs and other ideas from their vernacular cosmologies in intertextual conversation with their fiction. In this article, I discuss this kind of practice in the novel 26a by Nigerian-British novelist, Diana Evans. The novel explores personal experiences of twinhood which also raises questions about identity, transnationalism and migration. This paper’s focus is on the ways in which Evans fetches material from her Nigerian background – the myth about twinhood – and merges it with her fiction, allowing both to engage and transform each other. Through this she has not only created a work of magical realism, but finds an effective means to represent trauma, psychic and existential struggles along with what it means to exist between categories
Developing Extensive Reading Materials for Secondary School to Foster Students’ Reading Habit
No full textThis study aims at developing extensive reading materials for Junior High School to foster students’ reading habit, as the first step of school literacy movement in Indonesia. This study utilizes Design and Development Research (DDR) by Richey and Klein (2007)[17] as the research method. Moreover, ADDIE model (Analysis, Design Develop, Implementation and Evaluation) is employed as instructional design model to develop the product. There are four data collection technique used; interview, questionnaire, test and observation. The product of this study is seven books as follows; The Five Pillars of Islam (Level A), Happy Halloween (Level A), Facts about Mosquitoes (Level C), The Legend of Surabaya (Level E), The Appointment in Samarra (Level G), The Return of Dracula (Level I), A True Friend (Level K). Those seven books are in the form of printed materials and within students’ independent reading level. They are supported with pictures, complemented with correlation level, preface, short-excerpt, glossary, commentary column, and books choice flowchart. Based on the theoretical and empirical validation, the seven books are suitable to be used as extensive reading materials in school literacy movement to foster students’ reading habit
Celebrating the Feminine Self: An Understanding of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight
No full textThe paper examines the celebration of the feminine self in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight through the character- Bella. While most of women’s writings carry a feminist voice asserting women’s individuality, the writers of Gothic romances concentrate more on the celebration of the feminine self rather than challenging the binaries of gender. Stephenie Meyer, by putting her heroine Bella into a traditional feminine frame provides her full scope to exercise her freedom to choose even while carrying out the prescribed feminine roles. Through the analysis of the character, there will be an attempt to demonstrate that while enjoying one’s inequality how one can prove the uniqueness of one’s individuality
Integrating Culture in Africa’s Economic Development
No full textThe importance of culture as panacea of development can fully be appreciated by considering its role in regenerating world economies. In the last few decades, interest by nations in culture as an economic force of its own has been manifested in their development blueprints. In this paper we argue that although there is evidence from early civilizations and economic manifestos of African countries that culture drives economic growth, there is a dearth of explicit literature on how this happens. This is a library-based qualitative study in which we argue that culture fosters economic growth. The study draws on post-structuralism, modernism and post-colonial approaches to find that institutions and practices reveal particular cultural pretensions, ethics and meanings; and gives recommendations on integrating culture with economic growth on the continent.
Sibling Incest in Tabitha Suzuma’s Forbidden and Kate Avelynn’s Flawed
No full textThis study purposely appoints the topic of sibling incest as reacted from the phenomenon of proliferation of illicit relationships that are increasingly being shown blatantly especially in social media. Through literary works such as novel, the phenomenon can be analyzed since those works are the portrayal of real life. ‘Forbidden’ by Tabitha Suzuma and ‘Flawed’ by Kate Avelynn were analyzed with three objectives; 1) describing sibling incest in both novels, 2) finding out the causing factors, 3) describing the impact toward the characters’ life. To achieve those objectives, the concept of incest, theory of psychoanalysis by Karen Horney and theory of comparative literature were applied. While in analyzing the data, it used interpretive perspective with author-oriented approach which concerns with psychoanalytic criticism. The results of this study reveal that the sibling incest in the two novels is different in type although the offenders’ composition is the same, incest between older brother and younger sister. ‘Forbidden’ shows non-abusive incest since it is done on mutual willingness which is motivated by affection, while ‘Flawed’ shows abusive incest since it is done forcefully by the older brother against his sister which is motivated by affection, eroticism, and aggression. The similar factors causing the sibling incest found in both novels are dysfunctional family and between ages peers, while the factor of Law of Homogamy is only found in ‘Forbidden’. Those factors do not cause the sibling incest just like the way without any influences of the characters’ psychological condition which is shaped by their childhood experience and neurotic needs. This study also reveals how sibling incest impacts the characters’ life. They suffer from psychological problems such as anxiety, self disgust, depression, self-destruction, self-blame, low self-esteem, and trauma. The enactment of incest taboo in their state also impacts them to self-isolation and prosecution. Evidently, this study reveals that any kinds of sibling incest with any reasons behind it lead into bad impact and dark phase of the offenders’ life.
When I Raised My Eyes Again: Women’s Journey to gain Power In Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man
No full textThe aim of the present study is to show the women’s journey to gain power in Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Ice-Candy Man. This will be done by showing their dual representation in the novel in the light of Feminist Theory. The study will first show how the women are victims of patriarchal oppression, subjugation, marginalization and sexual exploitation in the novel, and then it will be described that how they are not entirely victim. This will be done by showing their strength to come out of that situation of victimization to gain power and assert their independent identity.