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Investigating Problems of Speaking Skill: A Case Study at Al-Baha University
No full textThe aim of the study is to explore the problems of speaking skill for students of preparatory year of Al-Baha University, Saudi Arabia. In order to answer the questions of the study, the researcher adopted the descriptive approach. The sample of the study consisted of (54) teachers of the university, most of them are MA and PhD holders. The questionnaire was prepared and refereed by specialized assistant professors then directed to teachers to answer (agree, strongly agree, neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree). The study indicated that there is a wide range of difficulties and problems facing those students. The demographics of the society around them is one of the most important obstacles. The gap between teaching speaking at secondary stage and university is one of the obstacles. Students of preparatory year are mostly shy while trying to speak. The study recommended reviewing the ways of assessing student’s speaking skill taking into granted the tribal nature of the students. The administration of the university should draw explicit goals at the local level of the university to help students develop the skill. The role of teacher is increasing constantly under these circumstances to help his students improve the skill as one of the most significant skills of English although they come from different cultural backgrounds. The study recommended further research to study the role of society structure in developing speaking skill
An Investigation of Male and Female Voices: Does Voice Gender Categorization Depend on Pitch?
Get PDFGender is a remarkable, socially basic concept got from appearances and voices, yet the cerebrum forms hidden gender segregation have not been greatly investigated. The current study investigated male and female voices and the difference between their pitch. To fulfill, 26 male (n=23) and female (n=23) advance EFL learners were selected from a private English language institute. Firstly, the measured brain response differences were observed between female and male voices beginning at 93 ms. Then, using normal, high- and low-pitch voices, pitch differences was checked between both genders. The findings revealed early effects (31–74 ms) was made by differences in pitch. Gender impacts were viewed with implicit pitch processing, but were not viewed with utilization of pitch. Moreover, stage between 191 and 276 ms differentiated male from female voices, independent of pitch. Thus, these data indicated that voice gender processing included two phases; a very early pitch or frequency distinction and a later more precise distinction of gender
Gender Performativity: A Feminist Reading of Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
Get PDFThis study tried to read the novel of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson from a feminist Standpoint. The study found that Life after Life depicts various attempts by female ''subjects'' to grow up and learn to live up to the expectations of a suppressed gender that aims to be given a status equal to that of the dominant male. For this purpose, the concept of "gender performativity" as introduced by the American critic, Judith Butler, was applied to several experiences of female characters during the World War II. It became clear that these women were attempting to exert their own free will toward getting over the obstacles imposed on them by the imperatives of a male-dominated society and perform jobs and activities in wartime British society that would earn them prestige and respect equal to their male colleagues
Resisting Cultural Hegemony in Wright’s Selected Texts through Identity Revival
Get PDFThis study aims to show that the Black African transformative resistance in literature has remained a powerful strategy that helped their literature survive. The study used Bill Ashcroft views to illustrate the process of White hegemony over Blacks. Then, to illustrate each text in the light of the postcolonial theory in order to shed light on how the chosen writer gave evidence to the ongoing hegemony in his texts. The final stage used Bill’s theory to talk about the resistance and anti- hegemony literature of the chosen writer. A lot of studies have been conducted on Black African American Literature but very little dealt with transformative resistance particularly in Richard Wright. This writer grew in immigrant family in America which represents a challenge to him since he faces the dilemma of abandoning his cultural identity through white hegemony into the mainstream dominant American culture and he is often known for promoting hegemony between the Black Americans and white people. However, the current study which reviewed the literature written by Richard Wight has other hidden motives seen in the light of post-colonial theory through the concepts of resistance, hegemony, and hybridity. It investigated how resistance has been passed down from generation to generation through interpolated literature and how his transformative resistance to white hegemony of the Western culture
The Ways of Formation the Discourse Competence on Students of Textile Spheres and Development in Critical Thinking at the Professional Foreign Language Lessons
Get PDFThe article discusses the ways of formation the discourse competence on students of textile spheres in the implementation of technology development in critical thinking at the professional foreign language lessons. It highlighted the effectiveness of techniques on technology development in critical thinking, which are used in the educational process for the development of discursive competence of the future specialists in order to use their acquired skills for the development, analysis and interpretation of scientific knowledge for the future professional activitie
The EFL Learners’ Fossilization of the / θ / and / ð / Sounds. Case Study: First Year EFL Students at Tahri Mohamed University, Bechar, Algeria
Get PDFThe articulation of the consonant sounds / θ / and / ð / of the English language is a serious pronunciation problem for the Bechari students in general and EFL students at Tahri Mohamed University (UTMB) in particular. It was noticed that EFL students at UTMB manage to use the /t/ and /d/ sounds instead of / θ / and / ð /; and thus changing the meaning of words, which boil down to mean that it can create breakdowns in communication. Mother tongue interference and lack of professional instruction are some of the causes that lead to the mispronunciation of sounds. The aim of this study is to explore the causes of the constant mispronunciation of the English consonant sounds / θ / and / ð / by EFL students at UTMB besides showing the importance of pronunciation Teaching
Translation of Traditional Chinese Culture and Its Modern Cross-cultural Communication
Get PDFTraditional culture is the root for modern China. The translation of Chinese cultural terms makes it possible to communicate widely with other communities. The study describes a self-collected Chinese-English parallel corpus of Chinese classical and cultural terms in Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (I) & (II), with the theory of translation cognition and descriptive and comparative methods. It discusses the translators’ subjectivity and analyzes translation strategies during translation. The results show that acceptability and expressiveness are main concerns for the English translations of Chinese traditional culture in the two volumes; the study also puts forward some suitable and effective ways in cross-cultural communication
Null Subjects in Palenquero: Do they really exist
Get PDFThis study aims to investigate whether null subjects are allowed in Palenquero, and whether its use is restricted to younger speakers. Due to its process of revitalization, and the daily contact with its lexifier (Spanish, a prodrop language), variation and innovation are present across the board. Two groups corresponding to young and adult Spanish-Palenquero bilinguals were included in the study. A repetition task demonstrates that both groups use overt subjects and avoid null subjects at equal rates, except when they hear a simple sentence with a null subject. A translation task confirms that both groups employ null subjects; however, younger speakers are more susceptible to the priming by null subjects from Spanish than adults. Together, the results suggest that null subjects are rarely used by Palenquero speakers. They are likely to occur in contexts where the imperative form is confused with the infinitive form and in coreferential subordinate clauses
Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood in the Age of the Anthropocene
Get PDFThe Anthropocene, a phenomenon that is too complex to be entirely grasped and which instead only marks itself through signs like climate change and the other environmental disasters, offers challenges to the treatment of the natural environments by humans. Accordingly, in order to manifest the Anthropocene epoch through literature, writers need to address a variety of the interrelated issues to be able to render the complexity of the phenomenon. In The Year of the Flood, Atwood places the issue of the Anthropocene in the context of social, political and economic conditions and attempts to narrate the story of the Anthropocene as a part of cultural memory to encourage the readers to take responsibility towards the environmental degradation
Designing Online Materials for Blended Learning: Optimising on BookWidgets
Get PDFWith the growing advancements in technology and their highly influential role in teaching and learning, present day teachers find themselves grappling with a whole set of parameters against which they need to measure themselves constantly. One cannot be a proficient teacher in the true sense of the word if he or she is merely good at classroom management. There is more to it than meets the eye. The teacher has to cut across domains in order to scale heights in a bid for survival in today’s highly competitive scenario. Earlier, materials design, curriculum design, research, teacher development, etc. were the domains of ivy-tower researchers and pedagogues. But now, the teacher has to know a bit of all in order to handle the present tech-savvy learners. This paper is an attempt to orient those teachers who are at the beginner’s level or the intermediate level to use user-friendly online platforms to design tasks and activities. The purpose of doing so is to enable teachers to create a highly interactive learning set up for the purpose of blended learning or for any online learning that serves more of a supplementary role. The research focuses on the Belgium-based platform BookWidgets to strengthen its claim that the right materials at the right time for the right learners is sure to yield the right results. There are different types of softwares covered under three main apps in BookWidgets – Test and Review, Games, and Miscellaneous. The research concludes with an evaluation of the platform based on Chapelle’s evaluation criteria. The conclusion attempts to strengthen the claim that BookWidgets is, in every sense, one of the best options for interactive learning