{"title":"Examining the Effects of Self-Regulated Learning Skills on Digital Lifelong Learning Among Online Graduate Students","authors":"Moussa Tankari","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1012003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1012003","url":null,"abstract":": Amid the COVID-19, educators noticed the resurgent importance of lifelong learning while delivering remote learning. The U.S. Department of Education indicated that self-regulated learning skills prepare learners for lifelong learning. The rapid development of advanced technology and the accelerated-expanding nature of workforce training will create ever-increasing demands for individuals to be self-regulated lifelong learners. Although self-regulated learning is vital to formal learning, it remains unexplored on how self-regulated learning skills may relate to nonformal and informal learning. Using a quantitative research design combining inferential and descriptive statistic methodology, this paper aims at examining the effects of self-regulated learning skills on graduate students. The major findings show that learners with high self-regulated learning skills might not necessarily have positive digital lifelong learning, particularly goal setting and time management to nonformal and informal learning.More specifically, participants had the highest self-regulated learning skill in environment structuring with the average score of 6.07 per item but a lowest self-regulated learning skill in task strategies with the average score of 4.13 per item. It is unavoidable for the agencies, educational institutions, and governments, to prepare digital lifelong learners by making learners more aware of the values and aims of nonformal and informal learning; and by recognizing lifelong learning.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128081327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Reading of Mohammed Ben Abdallah's the Fall of Kumbi: a Director's Approach","authors":"Samuel Arko Mensah, Godfred Asare Yeboah","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1003006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1003006","url":null,"abstract":". Abstract: Directing a stage play is seen as a creative and interpretative art which takes its root from the script. The art of interpreting a script for a production has been generally an exclusive vocation of the theatre director. This engagement of interpretative exploration is normally done with critical analytical lenses to ensure the audience are served with the right product. Consequently, for a play to succeed or otherwise is heavily dependent on the directorial analysis and approach used by the director. The paper attempts to discuss directorial elements to be considered in the reading of Mohammed Ben Abdallah‟s The Fall of Kumbi. This work will further examine the elements through the use of textual analysis as a methodology. It was observed that the title, characterization, style, language and thoughts are crucial elements that the director must understand and craft an approach in staging a play.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133810395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dylan Thomas’s “Poem in October”: A Parody of Poetic Tradition","authors":"S. Bharadwaj","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0709004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0709004","url":null,"abstract":"The image of Wilfred Owen as ―fragile and luminous‖ grown ―by pain and labour‖ ( Contemporary Verse 250) that the poets of the thirties adore and the Second World War poet ―conscious of his desires and needs and flesh that rise and fall‖ lampoons as ―poor bare forked animal,‖ ―a machinery of death and slavery‖ (CV ) and ―forgets ... his hatred of war‖ has been steadily revivified by Sidney Keyes, the heroic war poet, ―those cries and wings surprise our surest act‖ (Modern Verse 421). Keyes celebrates the sensibility of Owen amidst the poets of insensitivity:","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122170031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deconstruction of Binary Oppositions in John Donne’s A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning","authors":"Jia Huiqing","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0706004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0706004","url":null,"abstract":"Universally considered the representative and pioneer of metaphysical poets, John Donne (15721631) is one of the most established and remarkable poets of Britain in the 17 th century. His works touch upon several different genres including love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons, among which the poems make considerable literary achievements. In general, Donne’s poems can be roughly divided into two categories --the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses. Different from many of the contemporary poets, Donne discards the vague poetry style of the late Elizabethan age and makes bold innovations in poetry. His poems break through the traditional constraints and reveal profound philosophy through colloquial language. Moreover, the ingenious conceits and unique images in his poems also inject fresh blood into British poetry.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123601071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A MORPHO-PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF DIMINUTIVES IN EKEGUSII LANGUAGE KISII, KENYA","authors":"Jane M. Ombati, Philes N. Onchieku","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0906001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0906001","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper was to analyse the formation and interpretation of diminutives in Ekegusii language using a morpho-pragmatic approach.Ekegusii is a Bantu language with distinct segmental morphemes. Diminutives fall under the domain of evaluative morphologyDi Garbo(2013).Ekegusii language has prefixes attached onto nouns plus a set of prefixes on the determiners, verbs, adjectives, pronominals and all words associated with nouns. The language group that was purposively sampled and studied using a descriptive research design, for instance, is classified as an agglutinating language.It was expected that distinct morphemes making up the words could easily be identified and the meanings associated with the diminutive affixes examined in order to avoid communication breakdown, if the correct interpretation of the word forms according to context, would not be provided.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123876710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treatment of Indianness and Indian Lexical Items in the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra","authors":"Hemanta Rajbanshi, Dr. Bairagi Patra","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0801004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0801004","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we try to focus the issue of Indianness and the Indian lexical items used by Jayanta Mahapatra from a socio-cultural and linguistic point of view. The issue of Indianness reflected in the works of Indian English literature is a much discussed and debated topic among the high brow people. It is often seen that the Indian writers, whether poets or novelists or any prose writers, are conscious enough about their Indian identity. According to Meenakshi Mukharjee, this tendency is nothing but an „anxiety of Indianness‟. For Gokak, “It is easy to slip into thinking that Indianness consists in adopting an angle of vision which is recognizably vedantic” (Gokak in Mohan, 1978, p.23). Besides this vedantic view, however, as he argues, there are other world views too presented by Indian literature. These areMarxist, socialist, existentialists etc. According to Gokak, mysticism is an important feature found in the Indian literature which is a very common theme found in other literatures too. He says, “An expression of occult experience is not the monopoly of Indo-Anglican or Indian writers. Blake and the romantics and the poets of the Irish revival like A.E. Houseman and W. B. Yeats are full of it.This too, is a feature which distinguishes the work of all great writers in world literature”(Gokak in Mohan, 1978,pp.23-24).","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125174654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Exploration of Research-Oriented English Learning of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics Based on Corpus Study-Taking the Instruction of \"the use of EXPECT\" as an Example","authors":"","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0805007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0805007","url":null,"abstract":"As we know, the word expect is a commonly used word in English. Its usage and potential characteristics, however, are not as simple as some people imagine. For a long time there are quite different opinions about the use of expect among linguists. When doing translations concerned, either from English into Chinese or from Chinese into English, we have to make sure that the best structure is selected. Even some native speakers sometimes would fail to use the word perfectly. This paper is to make an in-depth analysis of the use of expect and some related words, and make the selection of the patterns based on the semantic reasons, from the view point of linguistics, so as to do the translation better in terms of pragmatics.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130053674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fragmentation, Distortion and Dispossession of Indigenous Values: A New Historicist Reading of Ngugi Wa Thiongo's Dreams in a Time of War","authors":"Andrew Szanajda, Yu Jie Li","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1107002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1107002","url":null,"abstract":"western scheme used as a ploy to dispossess Africans not only of their wealth but also of their cultural identity (61)”. This was a deliberate attempt to obliterate the cultural values of the colonized while constructing that of the colonizer. Juneja (1995) concurs this when he posits that: “The colonizer destroys the past of the colonized by changing the frame of reference of history from the colony to that of his mother country. He distorts and disfigures the historical past of the colonized to his advantage (4)”. This is what the colonizer did that made the colonized to hate his language, dressing, religion, food, and other cultural values to start considering that of the colonizer.A man without a culture or history has no roots as such, the colonizer succeeded in separating the colonized from their indigenous practices. The centrality of this paper grapples with Abstract: Most African countries in general and Kenya in particular had an organized way of life during the pre-colonial era. Cultures were respected; virtues/morality was prime and was handed down from one generation to the other through the lore. Unfortunately, the colonial encounter distorted the way of life of the colonized. The colonized values were brought to question and the colonized was made to shun his tradition. Eventually, the colonized was compelled to follow the colonizer’s trend which put the former’s values at risk. This changed the way the colonized could perceive themselves. Today more than ever before, post independent states find their values in crises due to colonial contact. Ngugi (2010) captures these cultural set ups before the advent of the colonizers. He rewrites history in prose form hence; this paper illustrates and argues that colonial incursions have fragmented and distorted indigenous values thereby putting it in crisis (at the brink of extinction).","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130409696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Semiotic Study of Rag-E Khab from the Peirce’s Perspective","authors":"Foroogh Kazemi, Shohreh Dalaee","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0709001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0709001","url":null,"abstract":"Semiotics is a science that studies the structures of signs. This branch of science has been used since the 1950s as a research method in recognizing the signification and perceptions of communication functions. Philosophers such as Michael Foko, Ferdinand Saussure, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Roland Barth have made significant contributions to this field, and in the particular context of a semiotics of the image, which is a branch of the science of identifying visual semiotics, important works are written by Barth on photography, cinema and painting.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128787034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender-Biased English Language in Hip Hop Music","authors":"A. M. Sallam, J. Shim","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0902001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0902001","url":null,"abstract":"Music is a great way to learn a foreign language. Instead of memorizing various rules of a language, language learners can be introduced to authentic expressions in a foreign language while enjoying world popular music. According to the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of February 2nd, 2020, 49% of music played on radio stations and streamed online is hip-hop/R&B. This prominence emphasizes how hip-hop/R&B is the most popular music in the modern world, and the lyrics of this genre may have a great influence on English language learners around the world. However, it has been argued that the hip-hop industry is interested in profiting from gender-biased language by utilizing sexist remarks against women. For instance, De Leon (2007) states that “The Hip-Hop industry isn't really interested in the diversity or even really the art. It's more interested in products and profit obtained by toxic masculinity and sexist remarks towards women” [1].This further suggests that listeners to this popular gender of music are unknowingly exposed to gender-biased language. Furthermore, music has a much deeper cognitive effect on how individuals behave. According to Murphey (1990), “Songs may act as an activator cognitively, or be a strategy in the ontogenetic development of language and behavior” [2]. Because of the dominance of Hip-Hop in world music and popular culture, coupled with the status of English as a global language, there is a growing concern that English language learners may learn the profanity of the language towards either gender without realizing its far psychological effects.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127733229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}