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Narrative Journalism and Digital Journalism
Get PDFJournalism refers to the production and distribution of reports on recent events. The word journalism applies to the occupation, using methods of gathering information and utilizing literary techniques. Various forms of journalistic mediums include print, television, radio, internet and in the past as newsreels. Journalism is a form of writing that tells people about things that really happened, but that they might not have known about already. People who write journalism are called journalists. They might work at newspapers, magazines, and websites or for TV or radio stations. The most important characteristic shared by good journalists is curiosity. Good journalists love to read and want to find out as much as they can about the world around them
LA PAIX ET L’UNION AU NIGERIA: LA PLACE DE LA LANGUE ANGLAISE
Get PDFDans cette communication, nous constatons que le Nigéria est un île linguistique où de nombreuses langues coexistent côte à côte. En guise d’emphase, il y a langues européennes, langues nationales et langues vernaculaires. Donc, la recherche vise à aborder les critères d’évaluer toutes ces langes. Ensuite, elle cherche d’esquisser la réalité de la langue anglaise en tant qu’une langue officielle ayant le statut linguistique d’y promouvoir la paix et l’union que les pères fondateurs se sont assignés et prêchent dès l’ère de l’indépendance jusqu’ aujourd’hui. L’article cherche aussi à examiner les avantages et désavantages qui s’associent au pays multilingue tel que le Nigéria. Finalement, nous proposons quelques suggestions qui aideront la réalisation de “One Nigéria” aux nigérians
British English and American English: History and Differences
Get PDFThe research discusses the history of both British English and American English. The main goal is to find how far the history of American English is originated in British English. The research also sheds light on the historical factors beyond the linguistic differences between British English and American English. However, these differences are restricted to vocabulary and spelling in order to give them more depth in analysis. The study comes up with several interesting findings. Among these findings is the fact that American English is basically an outcome of Elizabethan English which the English settlers brought with them as they came to the North American Continent in the sixteenth century. Nevertheless, despite the fact that the main effect on American English resulted from British English on that time, there were many other resources that impacted it throughout time, such as American Indian Pidgin English, French, and Spanish and recent immigration of other various peoples like the Italian, Chinese and German to the United States. Moreover, with the passage of time, American English influenced British English and enriched its vocabulary, especially in the case of "Americanism.
Forensic Linguistics: Ratna Sarumpaet’s Persecution Case on Hate Speec
Get PDFThe objective of this research is to highlight the lexical semantic meaning and analysis of forensic linguistics on Ratna Sarumpaet’s persecution case in online media. The research method used descriptive qualitative. Data analysis was taken from lexical semantics from all statements spoken and written in media online. The results of forensic linguisticsshowed that there was a hoax given by FadliZon, HanumRais, Prabowo, Dahnil and Nanik on Ratna Sarumpaet’s persecution case. The data was collected by researchers using social media online. It was concluded that; (1) There was no Ratna Sarumpaet’s persecution case. (2) There was no international conference that was visited by Ratna Sarumpaet. (3) There was no patient with the name Ratna Sarumpaet in the Cimahi Hospital. (4) The bruises on Ratna’s face were not persecution case but plastic surgery and (5) There was no persecution in International Airport of Husein Sastra Negara in Bandung
Saudi Students’ Perspective on Social Media Usage to Promote EFL Learning
Get PDFThis paper reports on a study into Saudi students’ perspectives on social media usage to promote EFL learning. Sixty Saudi learners of English as a foreign language enrolled at Jazan University were participants in the study. To gauge the participants’ perspective; a questionnaire was designed, adapted from Aifan (2015) and previous studies on social media and perceived attitude. We modified the questionnaire to our requisites to accomplish the real response on the use of social media to encourage collaboration and communication. The participants were asked to respond about their perceptions to use English on Social media, affective variables, and hypothetical usefulness of social media applications of what they learned in the class and reflecting on their learning experience in English. Results showed that students had a positive attitude toward social media usage, despite a few barriers, feeling more confident, less anxious, more competent, and more willing to communicate in English on social media. We suggest that the careful construction of tasks, activities and projects based on the use of social media integrate with the curriculum, workshops and faculty development programs on social media usage can have a positive effect on the language learning process
"I,I have Caused a Miracle": The Textual Politics of the Fantastic in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Get PDFThis research examines critically Toni Morrison's use of the fantastic in her first novel The Bluest Eye (1970). This aspect of Morrison's text did not receive due attention in the critical reception of the novel. In fact, the term 'fantastic' appears nowhere in the ever-expanding bibliography of Morrison's oeuvre in general and The Bluest Eye in Particular. This aspect, instead, is treated under other headings like characterization or dialogue and epistolary elements. This research, therefore, addresses Morrison's fantastic in The Bluest Eye through the critical methodologies of the leading contemporary theorists of the fantastic, notably; Tzvetan Todorov and Rosemary Jackson. Because these theorists align the fantastic with the act of reading, this research invokes a wide range of reader's response, deconstructive, and phenomenological approaches in its reading of the inherent, and subversive, ambivalence of Morrison's fantastic. Morrison uses the fantastic in The Bluest Eye as a textual space where reader's response and expectation are negotiated to break the passive pattern of the process of reading and pushes her reader to actively engage in the production of meaning
A New Generation of Readers in the Digital age: Attentive or Distracted?
Get PDFWithin a progressively high knowledge-based society, globally-oriented world, and diverse society, making sure that our students are well equipped with the necessary tools and competences to live in this digital age is, in fact, one of the prevalent challenges facing today’s education. Indeed, the novel nature of reading and readers has enormously changed as digital texts and technologies become more prevalent. Thus, teachers are under the pressure to shape their teaching visions to more mobile-based reading ways that will cope with learners’ new requirements to exist, struggle, and cooperate in a newly global scenario. Thus, the present paper attempts at reflecting upon the challenging task of teachers, from developing world, to incorporate new educational technologies into their typical classrooms in general and reading practice in particular for a better teaching/learning experience. Nonetheless, one should be cognizant of the fact that despite the growing importance of ICTs in education, there is no “magic bullet” that will answer all existing challenges (Schramm, 1977), still there is a lack of a structured approach based on collaboration, innovation, development and implementation of educational technologies. Hence, incorporating technology within the reading process may create a challenging problem at this level; do our learners, in such a technological scenario, read as attentively and thoroughly as required? How do their brains respond to onscreen text than to words on paper? Should teachers be worried about dividing learners’ attention between pixels and ink? This paper will answer these questions and many other concerns
The Effectiveness of English Club as Free Voluntary Speaking Activity Strategy in Fostering Speaking Skill in Saudi Arabia Context
Get PDFThis study investigates the significance of English club in fostering speaking skill in Saudi Arabia context. It hypothesizes that Saudi university students are enthusiastic to learn authentic English and English club as free voluntary speaking activity with low anxiety assists Saudi university students practice English joyfully. This study aims at identifying the advantages of activating English club in promoting speaking skill and raising university English teachers’ awareness of the importance of using it. The study method used was the descriptive analytic method. The study concludes that English club assists Saudi students be free from language anxiety and traditional boring routine classroom activities , it helps them practice speaking English joyfully and English club fosters critical thinking , persuasive and argumentative skills among students. It recommends that English club should be scheduled as the essential part of a course in the semester not as academic activity, English club should conduct remedial classes concerning speaking strategies and skills which assist students communicate tactfully and the native speakers should help conduct the English club in order to create realistic language context in terms of phonological aspect
The Strategy of Negative Politeness in Visual Information Media on Sea Transportation
No full textThis research deals with the realization of the use of negative politeness in visual information media on sea transportation. The purpose of this study is to explain the negative politeness strategies used in the visual information media. The approach applied in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. The data source utilized in this study is in the form of visual information media such as placards, banners and leaflets installed in a number of locations related to sea transportation, namely ticket sales agents, ports and ships. The data examined is written discourse from the media of visual information containing politeness in language. In collecting research data, the techniques applied were seeing, recording and noting techniques. Analysis techniques, used in the article, are Brown and Levinson’s language politeness. The result of this study showed that there are seven strategies of negative politeness in visual media information on sea transportation including conventionally indirect strategy, hedges, minimizing the imposition, giving deference, impersonalize S and H, Stating the FTA as a general rule and Nominalize
Qur’anic Scholarships in Post-Colonial Lagos: A Study of Contributions of Shaykh Adam ‘Abdullah al-Ilory (1917-1992)
No full textIslam, perhaps hardly been found in any area without existing of Islamic education and Lagos was no exception. Therefore, the advent of Islam in Lagos has resulted to the spread of Arabic-Islamic education everywhere. The Qur’anic education, which is the essential part of Islam started immediately by an informal method. Later, during the Post-Colonial era, the Qur’anic education witnessed tremendous development and growth by of one the oftenacclaimed greatest Islamic scholars called Shaykh Adam Abdullah al-Ilory, who situated his Arabic school; Arabic and Islamic Training in Agege area of Lagos, as Quranic Center. So, it is the interest of this paper to assess his contributions to the Qur’anic scholarship, highlights some challenges and provides useful suggestions for the improvement. The research adopted descriptive and historical methods, which assist in presenting a comprehensive x-ray of his contributions to the Qur’anic education in Islam and Lagos society in particular