International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature最新文献

{"title":"Translating Social Differences in Select IWE (Indian Writing in English): A Bilingual Perspective","authors":"Bhawna, P. Jha","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0706001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0706001","url":null,"abstract":"In the way of handling the Indian situation in their own ways in IE, particularly, in creative writing it is for sure that this genre of writing is conceived on the ground of bilingualism. In the case of Indian English creative writing the leading figures (Anand and Singh) to the contemporary one (Ghosh) brings experimentation of different Indian regional languages in their creative works, which provides authenticity to the theme corresponding to its language. The question arises as to how writers become more proficient in the other language and what accomplish the attitude show their creativity in that language. As Iyengar puts it: ―Indian writing in English is, but one of the voices, in which, Indian speaks. It is a new voice, no doubt, but it is as much Indian as the others‖ (196:3). When a work of art is created in bilingual mode, it would have to satisfy certain parameter of intelligibility, acceptability, appropriateness. Intelligibility is not an absolute criterion, but is participant and context dependent. Braj B. Kachru in his paper, ―The Indianness in Indian English‖, explains that ―the term intelligibility may be used in a wider sense to imply an Indian bilingual‘s capacity to use English effectively for Social Control‖(1965:394). This genre of literature has foreign readers as well as Indian bilingual readers who have some proficiency in English. For the latter one, things are easy, but for the previous one, footnotes and the other hints are required to know the Indianness of the English language. The Indian expressions in other tongue are defined by the appropriate transformation of Indians into Westerns. The Westernization of Indian sensibility provides a big scope for its bilingual readers. Kachru poses an important question in this context; ―One might ask who is to judge the appropriateness and acceptance of such innovations? The actual non-native user or an idealized native speaker? The answer is not easy‖ (1990:28).Writing in some other language presents a different situation where the native expressions are influenced by the other tongue, which creates the concept of otherness. In creative context, the sense of otherness is expressed through the various strategies of translation. In addition to this, Indian English Literature or Indian and World Literatures, as a major discipline has been taking shape in major academic institutions (JNU, EFLU) of India. Translation, resonating the role of Indiannism by the various regional writers of India has been sought to present in Abstract: This paper sets out to address the assimilation of translation and nation as transnational, results in to idea of transculturation. Translation as an art has been taken different paradigm shift. As for creative writing in English, translation is performative nature of cultural communication. Beginning with some remarks on Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935) and Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan (1956), two novels that examine translation as a core of ","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"60 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":"133320532","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":"Between “Seeming” and “Being”: Robert Frost’s writing of Man’s Existential Dilemma in “After Apple-Picking”","authors":"Cheng Dang","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0704006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0704006","url":null,"abstract":"Having received four times of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Robert Frost is regarded as a legendary figure and has become an icon not only in his own lifetime but also in the whole American literary history, and he is “an almost granite-like figure worthy of a place on Rushmore or a similar pantheon of poets” [1]. His poetry, most of which is against the backdrop of the landscape of tranquil New England, though “deceptively simple”, embraces a profound regional hue and is deep in both literal and connotative meanings. He is a man who uses his own language to depict what real life is like and tells people what they should do when they are confronted with big moments in life.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"106 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":"122407638","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":"Using Short Stories to Motivate Intermediate EFL Learners in Essay Writing at Vietnam Centre Point","authors":"Giang Nguyen Truong, Ha Nguyen Dinh Nhu, T. Tran","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0808004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0808004","url":null,"abstract":"Among four main skills of English learning, writing is mostly considered to be the hardest skill. Whilst, writing is one of the productive skills, which is a special kind of communication, providing learners chances to produce their feelings, their ideas and their learned knowledge on the visual words. Even so, most of the English learners in Vietnam have experienced conventional and unsuitable teaching styles during their period time of studying, and this drives them to the demotivation of cultivating the target language and to the lack of critical thinking to write. Moreover, materials that teachers have used in the classes might be a complex matter since the learners are forced to study repeated topics and familiar ways of doing exercises in most of their time of practicing writing. It means that leaners are understandably not given enough vacancies of their critical thinking in each learning product as well as they would lack the inspiration for reading books. Additionally, the aims of learning or teaching English language are to build the learners to be competent communicators and users of this language. That path of learning and teaching should highlightthe higher values of teaching which are compassion, attitude, kindness exploited inside learners‟ characteristics.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"79 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":"121165278","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":"Reconstruction of Cultural Identity of American Black Women in \"Everyday Use\"","authors":"Xinyao Yu","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0912005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0912005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"42 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":"121410618","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":"Language and Linguistics: Frolicking with Some Definitions","authors":"S. Afolayan, Taofeek Olanrewaju Alabi","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0907002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0907002","url":null,"abstract":"Bamisaye (1997) has opined that the question, “what is language does not lend itself to a simple answer”. The initiative of this research is also of a similar mindset. Consequently it is with such mindset that we approach the phenomenon language as a rather kaleidoscopic entity in human communicative existence. The very imposing aspect of the term of reference of this study, as can be implied in its title, attempts to reflect on some of the extant definitions of language and linguistics to provide further understanding of the concepts which would possibly make the contents of the chapter veritable investigatory material for budding researchers in the field of language study. Language is such a pervasive human tool that every user of the phenomenon may think he knows what it is in its nitty-gritty. It is however insightful to say that this lame duck, or myopic, claim about language is a product of the misjudgment of the consanguineous relationship between language and man. It is therefore not fortuitous that both Crystal (1974) and Bamisaye and Afolayan (2006) are of the opinion that the amorous rapport between man and language is enough to make anybody fall into the trap of assuming “we know all about it” merely because we speak it.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"27 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":"129075373","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":"An Analysis of Thematic Progression Patterns in Zambian Students' ESL Academic Writing: Evidence of Coherence-Obscuring Patterns","authors":"Naomi Njobvu, J. Simwinga","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1011003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1011003","url":null,"abstract":": This study investigated the types of theme and rheme patterns that obscured discourse coherence in the writings produced by English second language undergraduate learners at the University of Zambia. It also established the extent to which the coherence-obscuring theme-rheme patterns affect the communicative effectiveness in the students‟ written discourses. The data were based on Bloor and Bloor (1992) argument that some theme-rheme patterns contribute to incoherence in written pieces of discourse. The data were 400 undergraduate written scripts from the School of Education and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. From each script coherence –obscuring theme rheme patterns were identified and presented according to types. Data analysis and interpretation mainly followed the qualitative approach . The type of assessments included one in-class test and end of year examination for the year 2021 for each academic level of study. The results showed that seven coherent obscuring theme-rheme patterns were used by the undergraduate students at the university of Zambia which included; brand new theme, empty rheme, empty use of there, use of the dummy it, incomplete split progression, split theme progression and use of the conversational personal pronouns.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"30 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":"116001017","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":"Remedial Course on English Language","authors":"Kiran Kulkarni","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0910004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0910004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"77 3 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":"116817986","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":"An Emerging Ecological Reportage Literature in China","authors":"Xiuqing Zhang","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0710005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0710005","url":null,"abstract":"Reportage literature could not survive without the soil of reality. The closer to reality, the stronger and fresher message it conveys to society, hence the more popularly received by audience. It evolves and adapts to the fast development of society and combines the advantages of both news and literature. It also appears in the form of ―neo-news‖, ―nonfiction‖, ―report literature‖, ―documentary literature‖, ―newspaper literature‖, ―journalist literature‖, and it is the literature of the era and is writing a new history of literature (Li, 2009:6).","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"2 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":"116838535","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":"Student Perceptions on Music Journals for Extensive Writing in an Academic Writing Class","authors":"Todd Jobbitt","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.1011001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1011001","url":null,"abstract":": Extensive Journal Writing (EJW) in Academic Writing Classes (AWCs) has been shown to have a positive impact on students’ writing ability (Ho, et al, 2022). This case study reports undergraduate student perceptions on the usefulness of writing about musical genres (a ‘music journal’). Several major themes that surfaced from responses were: 1) an improved ability to express feelings;2) an increased sense of awareness and connection to others; the idea that journals were 3) fun and motivating; and lastly, 4) increased English language production and writing skill. These themes indicate that music journals (MJs) may help reduce the stress of academic writing whilst meeting practical AWC production aims, and be seen as engaging alternative to more traditional EWJ formats.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"62 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":"115778602","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 Impact of Reading Strategy Use on EFL College Students","authors":"Ching-Ying Li, Yuanyuan Pan","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0705005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0705005","url":null,"abstract":"The study of learner strategy, started by reference[1] by giving a description of successful language learners, has already been carried out since 1975. There are three different types of good learner conducted by him. (1) The good language learner is willing and excels at guessing. (2) The good language learner excels at communicate with other. (3) The good language learner is often not inhibited [1]. Based on Rubin findings, the researchers are trying to prove if these findings are also workable on EFL learners in the classroom, particularly at university. Teaching reading has ever since gained much attention in the core principle of the grammar translation method. Reading skills as reference[2] stated was mostly thought of as comprehensible input which is the mere reason to paying the way for gaining knowledge in various skills, especially speaking and writing. In addition, voluntary reading was emphasized by reference[2] as an approach to covering a variety of communicative language competence to academic language competence. This study aims to convey different sorts of reading strategies that are frequently used by advanced English learners in Taiwan EFL college students. When it comes to implementations of the finding of the current study, it benefits teachers to develop teaching methods and has positive effect on curriculum design, Up to now, few study has resembled the current one conducted on Taiwan advanced English language learners, especially Taiwan college students.","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"5 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":"114387606","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}