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Twentieth-Century Countrywoman in Steinbeck’s ‘The Chrysanthemums’: A SocioCultural Study of Opression
Get PDF‘The Chrysanthemums’ is a short story written by John Steinbeck and published in his collection of short stories, called The Long Valley, in which, the author focuses on the description of symbolic elements such as nature to narrate his stories. Steinbeck excessively uses symbolism in his stories, and ‘The Chrysanthemums,’ a selected story from the collection is falling into the same category. With the combination of realism and imagination, Steinbeck describes social issues and shares an image of society to his audience. ‘The Chrysanthemums’ refers to the male patriarchal society, and the protagonist of the story—a woman called Elisa—cannot show her abilities because of social limitations. This issue is clearly revealed in Elissa’s relationship with her husband and her communication with a stranger who visits the farm. Through the story, the chrysanthemums play a great role and symbolize Elisa’s sexuality or artistic sensibility that are revealed through her communicative manner with her husband and either other members of the societ
Challenges of Teaching and Learning the Igbo Language at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Nigeria
Get PDFThis study identifies and describes the problems of teaching and learning of the Igbo language at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Nigeria. In the last two decades, it has been observed that there has been a substantial decrease in the proportion of students who applied for or even enrolled to study the Igbo language at university level in Nigeria. Using survey design, this study investigated the problems associated with the teaching and learning of the Igbo language. Fifteen Igbo language students and four Igbo language lecturers at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam campus were used to obtain information. Two instruments were administered on participants selected for the study. Results indicate that lack of Igbo pedagogical materials, attitude of people towards the language among other things prevent the smooth teaching and learning of the Igbo language. The paper concludes that although efforts are made by scholars to revitalize and popularize the study of Igbo language, interest and enrolment among prospective students are still very low
Teaching English Language with Digital Journalism
Get PDFDigital Journalism refers to the production and distribution of reports on recent events via internet. Digital journals can be used as learning material and an assessment tool for English Language Teaching. Through Digital Journalism students can develop Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing skills. Further, students can update their practical knowledge. During lab hours, students are asked to read the journals related to Engineering or current affairs, and to take notes. This will improve their reading and writing skill. To improve the listening and speaking skills of the students, Group Discussion classes are conducted on the topics they have read. Hence, teaching English language with digital journalism will save time and energy. At the same time it will update their practical knowledge to compete in the digital worl
Refining LSRW Skills of Engineering Graduates through the Digital News Platform
Get PDFThe present study aimed to develop the LSRW skills of the graduates with the help of digital scientific news platforms. The present study indicated that the digital news platforms play an important role in honing the English skills of graduate learners. The contemporary digital era has given rise to numerous multinational companies and burgeoning businesses. Transactions in businesses have made technology an inevitable component of communication. Technology has brought the shift from industrial society to information society and industrial economy to knowledge economy. Today, we cannot think about global businesses without the internet. Internet has made the digital revolution a reality. It has become an important mode for various business activities throughout the world. Internet, a valuable technological innovation, plays a crucial role in a wide range of business interactions. These interactions or communications are predominantly done in the English language
A Determined Observation and the Investigation of Moby Dick as a Symbol of Evil
Get PDFThis paper investigates the themes and symbols of evil, pain, and suffering in the novel, Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville, in which the narration is about a whale namely Moby Dick that attacked on the ship crew deadly in the ocean while the whale is in the white color which ought to be a symbol of the good spirit or the angel of the sea; but his evil nature and destructive attempts on the voyagers reveal him with a terrible and dreadful appearance which personifies and symbolizes to place for an evil object. The white whale, Moby Dick is an antagonist that plays a vital, dominant, and prominent role of the main character in the novel. Here, Moby Dick is not only a book about the protagonist Ahab’s quest for the White Whale, but Moby Dick also is an experience of the quest. It is full of the sea and the religious symbols. In this novel, symbols are based on both characters and objects. Some symbols are based on such characters as Ishmael, Queequeg, Ahab, Eliza, and Fedallah, whereas the objects, such as the White Whale - Moby Dick, the ship Pequod and the sea and the Cogfin. Related to the theory of symbolism, there are three kinds of symbols – natural symbols, conventional symbols, and private symbols. The mechanism of symbols has been applied in the form of pain and suffering in this paper that proves the white whale, Moby Dick is as a private symbol of an ambiguous creature precisely evil because of its evil nature and the destructive attempts throughout the novel
Digital Journalism and English Language Learning in Engineering Colleges
Get PDFEnglish enjoys a royal status in this technological world with its wide spread use. It is the language of technology and hence the demand for it has increased. Especially technocrats need it more than ever. The growth and development of science and technology has had a tremendous impact on the various industries and life in the world. Language learning and teaching has also been touched by this technological boom. The language classroom uses more of audio and visual aids, content from TV channels, internet sites and various technical gadgets like LCD projectors. In fact, the use of technology has increased the interest of the learners who are more technology oriented. With every passing day efforts are being taken to make the language classroom more learner-centered and need based. One of the byproducts of the advent of smart phones with inbuilt cameras is digital journalism. Almost everyone has started telecasting or broadcasting the news and events happening around them. The paper aims at employing digital journalism to improve the language learning skills of the learners with particular reference to engineering students. The main objective is to make the learning process interesting and fruitful for both the learners and the teachers
The Reflection of Lacanian Mirror-Gase and Thought in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book
No full textThe theme of "identity" in Orhan Pamuk's works, and in specific to this study in The Black Book is prominent. This article aims to approach this work of Pamuk in a psychoanalytic Lacanian criticism. Lacan as a psychologist with a post-structuralist viewpoint, believes that the unconscious is structured like a language. He explains that the language, the signifying chain with a perpetual sliding of the signified under the signifier, never provides "ultimate meaning" or a "transcendental signified". Accordingly, this article, provides a Lacanian reading of Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book with emphasis on the main roles of the "other", and language in forming of the unconscious and individual identity. "Galip", the protagonist of the novel, is in search of his lost wife "Rüya". But in fact, following this lack, he starts his search for knowing himself through a chain of signifiers. His search does not lead him to reach to a complete ultimate meaning of his "self". His bewildered subject cannot anchor at a fix point of integrated and wholeness of the "self"
Winnicottian Holding Environment, False Self and Play in W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage
No full textThis article distributes a psychological reading of William Somerset Maugham’s of Human Bondage according to Donald Winnicott, one of the eminent figures in object relations theory. Maugham’s works depict the life of people who are struggling with their destructive relationship. This might refer to their childhood lack of holding environment or it may be caused by shaping false self as the loss of play. Although, Maugham leads his novels’ characters toward success, they are entrapped in their incomplete childhood prototypes and consequently they choose inappropriate partners. Philip Carey is the protagonist of the novel who is orphan and he is sensitive because he has lost his parents and he is born with a club foot. These made him sad and alienated from others and led him toward proving himself as a successful person; while actually he is not. Incomplete childhood prototypes and lack of confidence result in wrong decisions and inappropriate accompanying. Object relations theory helps finding the hidden reasons behind the protagonist’s actions, feeling and what he chooses in his life
Linguistics, SLA and Lexicon as the Unit of Language
Get PDFEach one of the major linguistic schools takes a different compartment of language as the main building block which shapes the totality of a language. The claim is that most of the linguistic theories have ceded to the prominence of lexicon as one major component of language. Through introducing the concept of lexical features, into the Minimalist Program, Chomsky has acknowledged the fact that lexicon features determine a word’s meaning, its morphological shape and its syntactical behavior in syntax. Constructions are based on particular lexical items which have been acknowledged as crucial in SLA although with different labels such as holophrases, prefabricated patterns, formulaic speech, formulae, sequences in SLA, chunks, and formulaic expressions or utterances. By adopting a lexical approach in studying language and language teaching and learning, the need for a new teaching methodology has always been felt, a demand which has never been satisfied
Politeness Strategies of Request Used between Libyan Students and their Lecturers Using English as a Foreign Language
Get PDFThe objectives of this study are to find out Firstly, the politeness strategies of request used by Libyan students and their lecturers in the classroom. Secondly, the politeness strategies of request mostly used by Libyan students and their lecturers. Thirdly, the factors that influence the use of the strategies by Libyan students and their lecturers. This study applied a descriptive qualitative approach. According to Creswell (1998:15), qualitative research is an inquiry process of understanding based on distinct methodological traditions of inquiry that explore a social or human problem. The findings of this research show: first, that the subjects utilized certain strategies which contained politeness values. Some of the nine strategies were found in their requests. The students exhibited their preference for the use of Query Preparatory that falls under conventionally indirect request to depict politeness and to avoid imposition of requests. Second, both the Libyan students and their lecturers mostly used query preparatory strategy. The strategy of query preparatory was used thirty nine times in the study more than other request strategies, followed by direct and non conventional indirect request strategies. Query preparatory is one of the request strategies identified by the Cross-Cultural Speech Act Research Project (CCSARP) (Blum-Kulka, House, & Kasper, 1989). Conventional indirectness which features query preparatory and suggestory formula strategies is by far the most frequently used for making a request. Third, the social power and social distance play a significant role in influencing the use of the strategies by both groups