Pub Date : 2022-06-10DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2022.0304109
Pakiza Saba
The role of technology and communication in modern times is eminent. The world is moving towards globalization. Communication has become faster and easier. Social Media is yet another tool to communicate across the globe. Social Media platforms are playing a vital role in all the fields of life. WhatsApp is the most frequently used social media tool, it is not only being used for the purpose of sending and receiving messages but it has also been used for educational purposes. Many universities across the globe are using WhatsApp as a tool for online instructions. It offers students enhanced opportunities and choices from the perspective of online education. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the use of WhatsApp in the teaching and learning process at the University of Sargodha. The study also tried to find out what ratio of students and teachers is using WhatsApp for instant messages and how many of them are actually using it for educational purposes. This research is descriptive in nature, the population of the study comprises 35 teachers and 166 students. The research questionnaires from both teachers and students were filled online and thus analyzed, using statistical measures to answer the required research questions. The results showed that the majority of teachers and students are using WhatsApp for the purpose of instant messages and for educational purposes as well. It is also revealed that teachers have been assigning tasks to students through WhatsApp and sharing research papers and other study material.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-10DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2022.0304113
Fareeha Azhar
In-group positive presentation and out-group negative presentation is one of the key components of almost every political speech. The inclusion of the groups, people, and countries in the in-group and out-group depends on the interests of the politicians. They use the discursive practice to highlight their positive actions and others’ negative actions. The present study has analyzed Prime Minister, Imran Khan’s speech he made at the 74th Session of UNGA in 2019. It aimed to see how he employed pronominal and other linguistic devices to achieve his political targets. The Deictic Space Theory Model was used to analyze the speech. The results reveal that Imran Khan presented the people of Pakistan and Kashmir, Islam, peace, human rights, climate, and poor nations as insiders of the deictic center (IDCs) and India, Western countries, terrorism corrupt politicians as outsiders of the deictic center (ODCs). The excessive use of the first-person pronouns by Imran Khan indicates that he attempted to present himself as a representative not only of the people of Pakistan and Kashmir but also of the poor people of the third world countries. The results of the study are based on the analysis of one speech made at an international forum and may be confirmed by including more speeches made at similar platforms.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-10DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2022.0304111
A. Rashid, Shaukat Khan, F. Sheikh
The present study attempts to examine English instructors' perceptions, attitudes, and pedagogical suggestions utilising YouTube to help Saudi EFL university students improve their speaking abilities. The research was designed using descriptive and analytical methodologies. A questionnaire was designed for data collection and administered to English language instructors, 61 EFL instructors in English Language Centre at Umm Al Qura University Saudi Arabia. According to the study's findings, English language teachers believed that YouTube is a beneficial teaching tool for developing university students' speaking skills. The findings demonstrated that YouTube might be utilised in the classroom, including allowing students to comment on a specific video or provide some details, debate, ask questions, and respond. The study recommended that students' speaking abilities could be improved by embedding YouTube videos in the EFL classroom.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2021.0304103
Parveen Kaur
The researcher was influenced by best English language teaching standards in England to find TESOL best practices. The study was carried out in three reputable elementary schools where English as a second language was taught. The research was conducted at three prominent primary schools in Birmingham, England, where the majority of the kids were from ethnic minorities. The fieldwork resulted in the refining and validation of an audit that was initially based on literature. Following that, fieldwork was conducted in a developing nation using the same methodology as in the United Kingdom. This step entails conducting a TESOL audit in order to determine the strengths and limitations of TESOL services in Malaysian and international TESOL institutions. This article describes the technique and methods used to build and validate the audit tool, which is particularly useful for codifying and identifying TESOL best practices. The method begins with a brief description of quality and the two types of quality measurements that are employed, benchmarking and auditing. The grounded, iterative approach to the creation and implementation of research instruments was then discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2021.0303100
Mariam Haroon, Amna Khalil
The study explored and discussed the commodification and objectification of women in Shahid Nadeem’s plays Kala Meda Bhes (Black is My Robe) and Dukhini (Woman of Sorrow). Both the plays presented the accurate picture of deep-seated discriminatory sociocultural and patriarchal traditions where men have the position of authority and esteem whereas women are considered subordinates, submissive and weak. In his plays, Shahid Nadeem introduced a vast range of female characters in challenging circumstances where women act as puppets and men act as their masters. Men and women, are assigned different gender roles in Pakistan due to biological essentialism and social constructionism and the clash between the two, was the primary cause of women’s sufferings in a male dominated society. Women are chattels who are attained in the name of marriage to serve men throughout their lives. The male dominated social system is built upon traditional hierarchies where men have put themselves on top and women are given the lower position. The present study discussed that women are objects for exchange with a trade value and are not treated as respectable human beings. They are subjects to physical, mental, emotional and psychological violence.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2021.030398
Ammara Afzaal
This study demonstrated the usage of speech acts in Pakistani advertisements employed to attract the addressees. Advertisements were used as a productive tool to entice the consumer to purchase the goods from the seller. The speech act theory by Searle (1969) provided a theoretical framework for the study of these advertisements. The data for this study were collected in the form of 30 written advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines and came from social media like Facebook were taken. A simple qualitative descriptive technique was used to analyze the data and to uncover the hidden directions and assertions used within the advertisements. The data were analyzed and classified according to speech act theory, and the frequency with which these speech acts had been used was noted, which provided the necessary evidence to support the idea that advertisers used speech acts usually to persuade the addressee, they provide them with information, arise their emotions and vows about the lucrative consequence of purchasing from them. The results of this study have shown that the most commonly used speech acts by advertisers are directives, commisive and assertive acts. These included the act of giving directions, orders, suggestions, and advice. They often used claim, assert, affirm, vow, and even promise the brand's reliability.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2021.0303101
Sobia Naseem, Rabia Naseem, Hina Naseem
This research study entitled Role of Netflix in Highlighting the Consequences of Bullying among Teenagers: A Case Study of 13 Reasons Why aims to investigate the role of media purposely Netflix in highlighting the consequences of bullying among teenagers. The qualitative study has been conducted by the researcher using an analytical methodology. As a theoretical framework, the researcher has considered Marshal McLuhan’s theory “Medium is the Message.” For exploring the impacts of bullying,13 Reasons Why (Netflix season) has been taken as a case study as this season emphasizes highlighting the strong impacts of bullying on protagonist Hannah Baker. Findings suggested that Netflix via 13 Reasons Why plays a role of critical impact in creating apprehension regarding the impacts of bullying among teenagers. It features various sorts and hurtful outcomes of bullying. It additionally brought into the spotlight the reasons for turning into a bully. Lastly, it suggested strategies against this social evil among teenagers. Recommendations of the study is centered on the need to examine the developing culture of bullying among teenagers (college and university students) and to hold sessions for the awareness about bullying to prevent the youth from the dangerous impacts of it.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2021.0304104
Aasma Irum
The study expounded upon “The Confluence of Mystic and Animalistic Constituents Problematizes Human Consciousness: A Study of Ted Hughes’s Selected Poems”. The impacts of the chaotic forces of the universe, lack of equilibrium between man’s material and mystic self, post-traumatic stress of World war I & II, dispersion of emotions, the dilemma of fear, doubt and uncertainty on the construct of individual’s socio psychic existence are the pivotal focus of this research. It explored those hurdles that obstacle the elevation of man’s actual self regardless of his multiple performative identities. This paper probed into the perpetuity of the contention between positive and negative energies of the World, necessary for the pacification of the wild instinctive self of man, and the quest for a singular identity were the core features that fabricate human consciousness. It was qualitative research undertaking psychoanalytical reading of Hughes’s poetry. Freudian theory of psychoanalysis, Jungian theory of individuation, Lacan’s concept of Lack, Gaze, Desire, and Mirror stage were the key concepts to explore the modern man’s socio psychic maladaptive attitude. The study may have further implications on the researchers studying advanced psychological and sociological theories related to the ruptured consciousness of the human mind in this dynamic World.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-05DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2022.0401118
M. Khan, Urwa Naeem
The present study focuses on the Dalit community in general and its women in particular as a muted group. The Dalit community is one of these marginalized communities who have been muted, deliberately, by society even in this era, the 21st century. Using a Muted Group Theory (MGT) as a conceptual standpoint, the study has attempted to problematize the caste system in today’s India and to prove the Dalit community as a muted group, which has been strategically muted for centuries and it goes on. The primary texts for analysis are Ants among Elephants (2017) by Sujatha Gilda, and The Weave of My Life (2008) by Urmila Pawar. The Weave of My Life, a memoir, recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste; the untouchables, the poorest class of Dalits, and Ants Among Elephants also deals with the fighting of Dalits with the issues of caste system in India. Both of these texts unearth the subjugation of Dalits, particularly, Dalit women, due to caste, gender, and language barriers. This study answers the questions of how the Dalit community is a muted group; and what ways are used to subjugate them in modern-day India. The study concludes with a need to write &study Dalit literature and to boost Dalit women in either possible way.
目前的研究主要集中在达利特社区，特别是作为一个沉默群体的女性。达利特群体是那些被边缘化的群体之一，即使在这个21世纪的时代，他们也被社会故意噤声。该研究以沉默群体理论(MGT)为概念立场，试图对当今印度的种姓制度提出问题，并证明达利特社区是一个沉默的群体，几个世纪以来一直处于战略沉默状态，而且还在继续。分析的主要文本是Sujatha Gilda的《大象中的蚂蚁》(2017)和Urmila Pawar的《我生命的编织》(2008)。《我生命的编织》(The Weave of My Life)是一本回忆录，讲述了三代达利特女性努力克服种姓负担的故事;《贱民》是贱民中最贫穷的阶层，《象间的蚂蚁》也讲述了印度种姓制度下贱民的斗争。这两篇文章都揭示了达利特人，特别是达利特妇女，由于种姓、性别和语言障碍而被征服。这项研究回答了达利特社区如何成为一个沉默的群体;以及在现代印度是如何征服他们的。该研究的结论是，有必要撰写和研究达利特文学，并以任何可能的方式促进达利特妇女。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-20DOI: 10.54692/jelle.2021.030294
Amna Umer Cheema
This paper theorizes the use of water imagery in Elizabeth Bishop’s selected postmodern poetry namely, “The Map”, “The Imaginary Iceberg” and “The Man-Moth”. Speaking in the language of tears, lake, bay, river, strait, sea and ocean, Bishop personifies water for culture and its language. It is on this basis that Bishop comes close to the French psychoanalyst and linguist, Julia Kristeva’s concept of the semiotic chora. Kristeva calls it a space of maternal discourse, where the fluid realm of mother’s body called chora celebrates the fluidity of semiotic desires and expresses them through the symbolic language of the world outside her body. Bishop revisits this bodily space, time and again, to acquire subjectivity through the mother/child bond. Bishop’s poetic language celebrates this relationship between the semiotic (maternal) and symbolic (paternal) realm of language. The symbolic enables the semiotic to express itself, and the semiotic shatters the rigidity of the symbolic meanings through an ongoing process of signification. This reciprocity, through the semiotic chora, makes Bishop’s identity fluid and always in motion towards multiplicity. This plurality brings newness to Bishop’s poetry and engages the researcher with fresh perspectives of outer vision, inner perception, structural patterns and make her poetry eventful.
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