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{"title":"Investigating Attitudes of EFL Learners Towards Standard English (SE) and Pakistani English (PE) at a Public Sector University, Sindh Jamshoro","authors":"Moomal Raza Bhurt","doi":"10.7176/jlll/83-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/83-04","url":null,"abstract":"This study deals with the attitudes of EFL learners towards accent of Standard English and Pakistani English at public sector University Jamshoro. There are not much studies have done in Pakistani context, in order to investigate the attitudes of EFL learners towards accent of Pakistani English and Standard English. University of Sindh was selected as site of the study. Quantitative research method was used for this study and the close ended questionnaire was adopted from Parveen and Mehmood (2013) was used as a tool of the study. The random selection of the participants was done. They participants were 200 in number and they were the students of Institute of English Language and Literature, University of Sindh, Jamshoro. The data was collected online through google form. The data was analyzed using statistical methods. SPSS version 22 was employed to carry out the statistical operations. Quantitative data was analyzed through SPSS to draw mean, median mode and percentages for each item in the questionnaire. It was found that EFL learners’ attitude towards the accent of Standard English and Pakistani English was positive. If one is acquiring a standard accent of English as an additional ingredient to one's linguistic knowledge that would be okay in multiple concerns. On the other hand if it is being given exaggerated significance and is learned discriminatively, that would be matter of great debate around the globe to cease language crisis.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124318053","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":"Linguistic Human Rights of Minorities and Language Policy: A Case Study of Balochi Language in Education in Lyari, Karachi, Pakistan","authors":"S. A. Shah","doi":"10.7176/jlll/83-06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/83-06","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the neo-colonial nation-states in South America, Africa and Asia have historically remained multilingual. Particularly, subcontinent, being the part of Indus Civilization, successfully maintained the legacy of religious and cultural diversity. Pre-colonial lingo-cultural diversity in subcontinent was discouraged and displaced by new linguistic hierarchy during colonial times. In the milieu of WW-II and national liberation movements throughout the world, classical colonial structure was largely weakened at global level and paved the way for internal colonialism. Political leadership of newly formed multiethnic states principally preferred to govern their people as colonial subjects rather than free citizens. European model of ‘one language, one culture and one state’ has hitherto resulted in many ethno-linguistic movements in different neo-colonial states. Neo-colonial forms of knowledge, categories and instruments of oppression; particularly language policy; is still prevailing in such (in)dependent states where Pakistan is not an exception. Since 1947, language policy in Pakistan has been mainly shaped by and still continues to be overshadowed by its colonial past. This article critically investigates promise(s) and practice(s) of national language policy and the status of linguistic human rights of minorities in education in Lyari, Karachi, Pakistan. The data was collected from various (inter)national public policy documents/declarations along with semi-structured interviews from four different groups of participants i.e. academics, cultural activists, teachers and parents. Findings reveal two diametrically opposed orientations in terms of the use of mother tongue in classroom. School teachers stridently advocated assimilationist language ideology and viewed multilingualism in classroom as a problem to be solved, whereas, cultural activists and academics consider the same as a cultural resource to be properly utilized and the right of the child to be respected. Parents’ views are also considered in order to explore the tension between the language of schooling and the language of early socialization of children at home. Moreover, Language Rights model is applied in order to explore (re)production of linguistic injustice through language policy in education. societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing in those territories, or parts of them. They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop, and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions, and legal systems’ (James et al., 2015, p.40).","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115835007","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":"Exploring Reasons on Lexical Borrowing from English Language (L2) to Sindhi Language (L1)","authors":"Iram Panhwar","doi":"10.7176/jlll/83-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/83-03","url":null,"abstract":"The term lexical borrowing is often used to express the system through which one language borrows words from another language to renew its linguistic system. The current research papers focuses to explore the reasons of borrowing words from English language (L1) into Sindhi language (L1). The current study employs qualitative research methodology to explore the reasons of borrowing words from English language. Research tool used to collect data was semi structured interviews and convenient sampling was taken as a source. Participants were (n=5) from a public sector university of Sindh. Data was examined and analyzed through thematic analysis. The major reasons behind lexical borrowing discovered were; code switching and code mixing result in borrowing, importance and exposure of English and lack of vocabulary in Sindhi (L1).","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"282 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132070179","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":"Investigating English Speaking Problems of Lawyers in Court Proceedings","authors":"Iqra Majeed Baloch","doi":"10.7176/jlll/83-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/83-02","url":null,"abstract":"Lawyers of Pakistan are facing numerous challenges while performing at their workplaces. One of the major challenges is proficiency in English language which plays the key role in getting justice. The aim of this paper is to investigate the English-speaking problems faced by the lawyers in court proceedings of Hyderabad, Sindh. For this purpose, qualitative methodology has been used in which Semi-structured interviews were conducted from (n = 5) lawyers. Convenient sampling was used to select the participants based on their convenience. Thematic analysis was done for analyzation of the data. Findings of the data revealed that lawyers were facing numerous English-speaking problems such as grammatical mistakes, vocabulary error, inappropriate use of sentences and so on.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130230083","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":"Investigating the Attitudes of ESL Learners Towards Native and Non-native Variety of English Accent: A Study of Public Sector University of Sindh, Jamshoro and the Shaheed Benazir University of Nawabshah","authors":"I. Shaikh","doi":"10.7176/jlll/83-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/83-05","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates the attitude of English Language Learners towards notion of World Englishes. This study in-depth explores the attitudes of ESL towards native and non-native varieties of English language. The researcher has chosen the three varieties of English language; two native varieties and one non-native variety of English language. The two native varieties are; American and British English and one non-native variety is Pakistani English. The researcher is interested in investigating the attitude towards accent of these varieties particularly. The study employed quantitative methodology and 100 students were chosen from English department of two Universities; University of Sindh and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University of Nawabshah. The data showed that ESL have positive inclination towards native varieties and they want to sound like a native speaker.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127092008","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":"Academic and adaptation challenges faced by international students: A case study of MUET, Jamshoro","authors":"Bakhtawer Daudpota","doi":"10.7176/jlll/83-07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/83-07","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aimed at exploring how academic and adaptation challenges affect the lives of international students at a public-sector university of Sindh i.e. Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro. It was a case study and ten international undergraduate students were treated as ten different cases. Semi-structured interviews were conducted from each of them. The transcribed interviews were then analyzed thematically. The findings suggested that the foreign students in MUET, Jamshoro faced both academic and adaptation challenges. These included, English language problems in terms of their inability to understand lectures if English is not the medium of instruction, difficulty surviving in the new environment due to uncommon language between them and the locals, all of which lead to identity shift and social stigma. So, teachers should make sure they cater to the needs of both national and international students. Once, the issue of medium of instruction will be sorted, the students’ learning experience will be remarkable. They will have time to focus on their studies, after that they will gradually learn Urdu which will help them survive and adjust in their new social and academic environment. These students have to invest in learning a new language, improving English, and adapting to the host environment by all means.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132315458","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":"Assessing the Practice and Challenges of Group Work in English Speaking Classroom in Dawro Zone: In the Case of Dali Secondary School","authors":"Abraham Bulcha Gamu","doi":"10.7176/jlll/82-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/82-02","url":null,"abstract":"English language plays significant roles in various fields like academic success, science innovation, business process, social interaction and for economic purposes. This study was conducted in Dawro Zone Southern Ethiopia with assessing the Practice and Challenges of Group Work in English Speaking Classroom in Dawro Zone: the case of Dali Secondary School. To achieve the purpose of this study, a descriptive research design was employed. For this study Dali secondary school in Essera district by employing purposive sampling technique. Similarly, Grade 9and 10 classes were selected from selected school through purposive sampling method. Students were selected from selected school through simple random sampling (lottery method). A total of 222 students, were selected for this study. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to describe the finding. Open and close ended questionnaires were prepared and used to collect primary data from the respondents. The findings of this study based on teachers of Dali Secondary School, they were not give clear instruction, motivate, encourage, and do not give their students with appropriate speaking activities and rarely use group work to teach English speaking were identified as impeding factor of group work practice in English speaking classrooms of the target school. Majority of the respondents revealed that they lack confidence, worry to speak in the target language freely and to express their ideas in the language and the opportunity given them to practice English speaking in group was not sufficient and they frequently taught in teacher-centered method. It is thus recommended that all concerned bodies or stakeholders such as Dali Secondary School, Woreda Education Office and Zonal Education Department should give due attention to reduce challenges by creating the suitable condition.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129509778","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":"Expansion and Improvement of English Language in Scientific Domain with Respect to Globalization and Related Criticisms (A Case study)","authors":"Faezeh Bohlool","doi":"10.7176/jlll/82-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/82-03","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper focuses on the topic of English language teaching and its widespread uses in the country’s educational system, especially in the domain of science. Concerning the issue of globalization and the spread of communications in all areas, it seems that the need for an international language is felt more than ever. In this regard, the science domain has not been an exception and has entered the course of globalization concurrent with the world. The current case study conducted on 20 students of Anthropology studying at the University of Tehran, investigates two main problems. First, students’ degree of satisfaction with the education presented by schools and universities, and their opinion about the English courses in Iran. In this article, we tried to capsulate their true ideas and suggestions for improving the teaching system of the English language in schools and universities according to their experiences. Second, we examined their feedback on the criticisms and disagreements against language expansion, such as linguistic imperialism and subtractive bilingualism.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126589935","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":"Positional Faithfulness and Vowel Harmony in Lubukusu: An OT Account","authors":"H. Nandelenga","doi":"10.7176/jlll/82-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/82-04","url":null,"abstract":"In a number of languages, vowel harmony is generally initiated in certain positions that are psycholinguistically privileged such as root-initial syllables. Such positions not only trigger vowel harmony but may also block or fail to undergo vowel harmony process initiated elsewhere even when such a process is regular or expected in the phonology of the language. In the rule-based derivational analysis, such phenomenon was explained in serial rules that were often blind to outputs and could produce non-recurrent harmony types. Similarly, the derivational approach often failed to account for the privileged status of harmony triggering vowels. In a Positional Faithfulness (PF) account adopted in this study, it is argued that positional sensitive harmony is due to a high-ranked positional faithfulness constraint; IDENT-IO, (F) in an Optimality Theoretic Grammar. In this paper, based on Lubukusu (a Bantu language of Kenya), it is shown that vowel height harmony that is initiated in the root initial syllable can best be accounted for by recourse to constraint interaction in which positional specific faithfulness constraints dominates general faithfulness and markedness constraints. Vowels in root initial syllables may initiate or block vowel height harmony based on a universal constraint ranking for root-initial faithfulness. The analysis confirms that faithfulness constraints that are positional sensitive may be responsible for root induced vowel height harmony because such positions are psycholinguistically privileged in general language processing.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129042352","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 Practice of English Language Teaching Through Literature at Secondary Schools in Ethiopia Focusing on Attitudes of Teacher’s and Student’s","authors":"Antehun Atanaw, R. Gaur","doi":"10.7176/jlll/82-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/82-01","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching and learning of a language couldn’t be performed separately without understanding the culture and the custom of the language under study. Therefore, in English language teaching through literature at secondary school cultural values and/or impacts of culture should be clearly stated by the language teachers to their students since the cultural issues retain a direct relationship to determine the meaning of words uttered and written by speakers of the language. Literature properly exposes students to complex themes and afresh, unexpected uses of standard language. A good novel or short story can gently take the students to foreign countries and fantastic worlds. A play or a poem can bring up certain dilemmas and dynamic emotional responses. This paper analyses literary texts incorporated in students’ textbook, incorporate researcher teaching English language experience and look out the curriculum objectives for the grade level. In the Ethiopian context, intercultural understanding has got little attention; communicative competence and linguistic competency gain relatively prioritized. If institutions and concerned bodies are looking for better learners who are well skilled with the target language; they have to properly incorporate contents which focus on enhancing trainees’ awareness and use suitable language teaching methods for better implementation.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133991796","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}