{"title":"How a Rainbow Flag Can Change Everything: LGBTQI+ Voices from Small Town Pride (2022) in the EFL Classroom","authors":"Marco Schoeber","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.005","url":null,"abstract":": The aim of this research article is to present a micro case study of the use of Phil Stamper’s novel Small Town Pride (2022) for discussing sensitive issues such as sexual diversity with upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The findings are based on a reflection of the current state of research as well as of the relevant concepts and theories from the fields of pedagogy, psychology and English-language didactics. The article makes concrete suggestions regarding how to approach the process of planning and implementing a teaching unit that aims to make LGBTQI+ voices visible in EFL lessons and shows ways of engaging with the novel in a manner that promotes diversity and transcultural learning","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114929474","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":"English Language Teaching Today: Linking Theory and Practice: A Book Review","authors":"Edward Owusu et al.","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.003","url":null,"abstract":": This paper is a book review of ‘English Language Teaching Today: Linking Theory and Practice, which is edited by Willy A. Renandya","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126663539","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 Effects of Critical Thinking on Reading Comprehension of English Majored University Students","authors":"D. T. Huynh, Binh T. V. Nguyen","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127951161","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":"Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies in Listening Activities: Tips for Effective Listening","authors":"Hassane Salmi","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.001","url":null,"abstract":"jrspelt","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134404063","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":"Cultural Navigations in the Borderland: Arab-American Experience in Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent","authors":"Abdulraqeeb ., Dr. Shaikh Kalimoddin","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.002","url":null,"abstract":": The novel Crescent by Diana Abu Jaber (2003) portrays the experiences of Arab-Americans navigating cultural tensions and conflicts in the borderland of the United States, using food as a metaphor for cultural identity, and emphasizing the importance of intersectionality in understanding the complexities of the Arab-American experience. This research paper aims to analyze the cultural navigations of the Arab-American characters in Crescent, with a particular emphasis on Sirine and Han’s unique experiences in the United States. It also examines how their experiences reflect broader issues of identity and cultural diversity in contemporary American society. By exploring the novel’s themes and characters, this paper contributes to the ongoing conversation about multiculturalism, identity, and cultural politics in literature and society.","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115460151","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":"English Teachers’ Strategies to Work with the Phonetic Interference of Spanish Language on English Language Learning in Students of Esmeraldas City","authors":"Mario Marlon Montes Montaño","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.37.004","url":null,"abstract":": To analyze the strategies that English teachers use to work with the phonetic interference of the Spanish language on English learning with the purpose of helping students to improve English skills while they are learning it as a new language, an explorative-qualitative-quantitative research was carried out to some English teachers of different levels from some educational institutions in the year 2020. The population and the sample consisted of 36 English teachers of Esmeraldas city. The methods of investigation used were analysis and synthesis, the hermeneutic method was applied to analyze the information have got and the technique used was the survey. The results showed that teachers said that their students had the Spanish phonetic interference especially in TH/Ɵ/, S/s/, A/æ/ sounds. Teachers mentioned that the strategies they use to work with phonetic interference of the Spanish language on English learning were to correct students in a general way, to listening and repeating the words several times. In addition, usually they used native speakers’ audios in their classes to work with the interference of the Spanish language on English learning because they want to develop it properly.","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126857787","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":"Green learning: Teaching Young Learners through Nature for a Sustainable Education","authors":"Shaivya Singh","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.36.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.36.001","url":null,"abstract":": The paper seeks to look at how teaching of environment and language can be interlinked at primary level education. Kids’ direct social and character experiences with nature in early to middle formative years for the duration of the “developmental window of possibility” between the long-time of three and twelve years help form their environmental identification and guide their environmental moves. To apprehend the relationships among studies in nature and environmental identification a sequence of guidelines may be created to provide a better childhood. Environmental recognition can be created through language classes specifically designed and evolved to focus on environmental issues and associated vocabulary. In preference to definitely specializing in era within the classroom, bringing the scholars in touch with the environment will enable them broaden their critical thinking strategies that may be useful in environmental sustainability. The English language teaching is not just about teaching language, it can additionally be leveraged to promote environmental friendly behaviour in students as well.","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121274486","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":"Injudicious use of the Anaphoric ‘it’ by English Language Speakers in Ghana: Are Ghanaian languages to blame?","authors":"Ebenezer Asinyor et al","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.36.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.36.002","url":null,"abstract":": This paper examines the wrong application of the anaphoric pronoun ' it ' in English language discourses in Ghana. The paper is grounded in a content analysis research design. The data for the paper were solicited from extracts from radio programmes and writings and speeches of unsuspecting Ghanaians. From the data collected and analyzed, we observed that the third-person singular non-human pronoun, it , is often used to refer anaphorically to a plural antecedent. This creates a disagreement between the pronoun and its referent. This phenomenon often happens unconsciously and speakers do not usually realize any grammatical problem with this situation. The study revealed that apart from the structural problem of the wrong use of the anaphoric it creates the lack of agreement between the anaphoric it and its referent may be a structural transfer from some Ghanaian first languages. The paper, therefore, recommends that teachers of the English language should explain to their students that English requires an agreement between a pronoun and its referent. A lack of this agreement constitutes a grammatical problem.","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116557617","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":"Womanism in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun","authors":"Ritika Vineeta, Mamta Kerketta","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.36.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.36.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132183283","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":"Saranghaeyo! (사랑해요!) : A Study of K-Drama Influence on Students’ Concept of Love (사랑) and Study Habits","authors":"Joanne A. Alada","doi":"10.54850/jrspelt.7.36.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54850/jrspelt.7.36.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":221233,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127701062","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}