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{"title":"Linguistic Landscape of Languages Used in Signboards in Larkana, Sindh","authors":"Chahat Batool","doi":"10.7176/jlll/80-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/80-03","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates the use of local, official and national languages and the incessant use of English on the localized Sindhi Roman script. Linguistic landscape is the study of written language on public road Signs, advertisements, billboards or front shops. Bilingualism is very common on the public signboards of Larkana city, where English language is used as market language. Many local people consider it as foreign language still English is used on every local and public signboard of Larkana city. The study used semi-structured interviews from different businesspeople, shopkeepers and owners of the institutions. The results show that Romanized Sindhi language/ Sindhlish and Bilingualism is influenced and dominant on the linguistic landscape of Larkana. In the comparison of English language the local/ native languages of the particular area of Larkana city seem missed or least used on signboards. The study focused on the linguistic landscape of Pakistan’s particular area Quetta, they explored the usage of languages and the ubiquities usage of English in localized non-Roman script. As English remained foreign language for many parts of Pakistan, however it covered most of the signboards of Pakistan. Researchers used framework of Gorter and Cenoz (2008: 343) for the analysis of linguistic landscape. They used multiple data collection instruments such as conducted the interviews of businesspeople and captured the pictures of signboards and billboards. The results showed the great impact of Englishized Urdu and Urduized English on the linguistic landscape of Quetta, Pakistan where the local and indigenous languages impact was missed and absent on the signboards.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"597 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116559031","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 Strategies to Improve English Oral Communication Skills Among Undergrads at Mehran UET, Jamshoro","authors":"Abdul Wahid Bhatti, S. Lohar, Z. Shaikh, Intikhab Ahmed Panhwar","doi":"10.7176/jlll/79-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/79-05","url":null,"abstract":"An Oral Communication (OC) plays a significant role in our day-to-day life. It has been considered as a life changing tool of the conversation. In academia,it is given a primary importance. (OC) is a two-dimensional work and it includes both listening and speaking simultaneously. This paper aims to investigate strategies, impacting students’ oral English communication performance and to make them effective and fluent speaker of English language.In this thesis, the researcher introduced many strategies to help students to improve their speaking skills of English language which actually comprises oral communication. First the study attempted to develop the questionnaire for statistical analysis named strategies for oral communication which was then classified as strategies for speaking skills. There were nine strategies of speaking. The research project was based on close-ended questionnaire for speaking and composed in a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 strongly agree (SA) 2 agree (A) 3 Neutral (N) 4 strongly disagree (SD) 5 disagree (D).The target population for this study were the 132 students of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh. The research contains sequential mixed method for the collection of data that is based on both quantitative data, that was collected from students through questionnaire and the qualitative data that was collected from 5 English language teachers of MUET, Jamshoro.  The data was analyzed in grand percentage, mean and standard deviations. To validate the use of the instrument, participant reports on the Strategy for oral communication were compared with the result of the OCS. It was revealed that students with high or low oral proficiency tended to use these particular strategies, such as social affective strategies, fluency-oriented strategies, negotiation of meaning and etc.Some of these strategies can directly influence their effectiveness of learning communication skills of English, but some do not have direct influence on oralcommunication skills of English. Understanding these strategies and their impact would enable both instructors and students to improve their teaching, learning environment as well as methodology. Keywords: Communication Strategies, survey research (sequential mixed method), speaking skills, high proficiency, and low proficiency. Investigating Strategies to improve English oral Communication skills among undergrads at Mehran UET, Jamshoro DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/79-05 Publication date: May 31 st 2021","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130641525","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 Effect of Dynamic Assessment on Iranian IELTS Students' Metacognitive Awareness for Reading Strategy and Reading Development","authors":"Maria Shobeiry","doi":"10.7176/jlll/79-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/79-02","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the effect of dynamic assessment (DA) on reading comprehension development and metacognitive awareness for reading strategies of Iranian IELTS students within the framework of Poehner (2008) who advocated the integration of assessment and instruction in promoting learners' abilities. It was a pretest-treatment-posttest quasi-experimental design in which 71 men and women advanced EFL learners participated. The experimental group (n=35) received DA interventions for the period of 10 weeks (40 hours in total) and the control group (n=36) went through regular teaching methods and static assessment. Two academic IELTS reading comprehension equivalent tests were employed as the pretest and posttest. Also, the metacognitive awareness for reading strategy questionnaire of Mokhtari and Richard (2002) was administered twice (once at the outset and once at the end of the study). The results of an ANCOVA analysis showed that the experimental group outperformed the control group in reading comprehension development. Moreover, a statistically significant difference was found between the metacognitive awareness for reading strategies of the experimental group and that of the control group through the repeated measure AVONA test. Regarding the results, this study recommends teachers and IELTS instructors to consider DA in their test preparation programs. preparing Israeli high school students for the matriculation Oral Language Proficiency (OLP) test. Similarly, DA was found to be significantly effective on speaking development of upper intermediate IELTS students who participated in a case study, conducted by Minakova (2020), during a three-week DA mediation program. Her results revealed an evident effect of DA on the learners' control over the use of verb tenses in the speaking tasks of the IELTS exam.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124024024","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 Case for Eight Igbo Tones","authors":"Iheanacho Ahize","doi":"10.7176/jlll/76-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/76-04","url":null,"abstract":"Despite research findings to the contrary, many still regard Igbo as a two-tone language, with some recognizing an additional third tone. However, this simplified two-tone system (or two-plus-one system) does not tell the full story of Igbo tones or reflect all the research in Igbo linguistics. Tone testing using a soundboard reveals eight tones (four long and four short ones) which occur in the default pronunciation of common Igbo words and which every Igbo speaker uses frequently. An eight-tone system for individual words better explains the complexity of Igbo tonality and reveals interesting possibilities about the evolution of the Igbo language and its relationship with other tonal languages, such as Chinese.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124273017","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 Production of the Opposite Adjectives in the Language of the Yemeni Children with Autism","authors":"T. A. Al-absi, Ph","doi":"10.7176/jlll/76-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/76-05","url":null,"abstract":"Aims: The main goal of the present study is to shed the light on the production of the opposite adjectives in the language of the Yemeni autistic children. Also, it compared the performance of the autistic children to the performances of typically developing children matched them chronologically and mentally. Methods & Procedures: A group of children with autism aged 7 years old chronologically and 4 years old mentally, matched to a control group of typically developing children aged 7 years old chronologically, and to a control group of typically developing children aged 4 years old mentally. The examiner used the Expressive Language Task to elicit the opposite adjectives from the three participated groups of children. Results: The findings of this study reported the significant difference between the performance of the autistic children on the adjectives, and the control TD groups of children who matched them chronologically and mentally. Additionally, the features of the opposite adjectives in the language of the autistic children were included in the current study based on their performance. Conclusion and Implication: The children with autism may face more difficulties in producing the opposite adjectives in their language. Particularly, the adjective which involve understanding the nonverbal language (e.g. happy & sad), the adjectives which they don’t use regularly in their daily activities (e.g. full & empty) or the adjectives which can be confused with other adjectives such as confusing (tall & short or thin & fat) with adjectives such as (big & small). Further, the children with autism don’t acquire and learn their mother tongue spontaneously as the typically developing children. Therefore, they need extensive teaching and effective teaching methods and tools to learn the opposite adjectives more extensively and use them properly.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124065174","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":"EFL Students’ Awareness and Use of Vocabulary Learning Strategies in EFL Classes: The Case of Grade 11 Students at Woreta Secondary and Preparatory School, South Gondar, Ethiopia","authors":"Asafew kelebu Abtew","doi":"10.7176/jlll/76-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/76-02","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to study grade 11 students’ awareness and use of vocabulary learning strategies in EFL classes at Woreta Secondary and Preparatory School. To conduct this study, mixed research (qualitative and qualitative) method was employed due to the nature of the research problem.  The population of the study were Grade 11 students who were enrolled in the year 2009 E.c and five Grade 11 EFL teachers. As it was impossible to incorporate all students in this study, 120 (14%) out of the total population of 841 students were selected using simple random sampling method. Hence, 120 students were all selected for questionnaire. Furthermore, six students were randomly selected from those 120 students and 2 EFL teachers who were teaching English were selected for interview. Data were collected using questionnaire, interviews and observations. The data obtained from the samples were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The quantitative data were presented using frequency and percentage. The findings of this study indicated that the students did not know many vocabulary learning strategies and did not think that these vocabulary learning strategies are important to increase their word power. The students employed only a few vocabulary learning strategies. Finally, it was concluded that the students lack awareness about the vocabulary learning strategies and they did not use as many vocabulary learning strategies as they can. Based on the find of the study the researcher recommended that teachers must create awareness about vocabulary learning strategies and should give opportunities for their students to practice different vocabulary learning strategies. Key terms : vocabulary learning strategies, memory strategies, cognitive strategies, social strategies, awareness DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/76-02 Publication date: February 28 th 2021","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116779206","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":"Tri Rismaharini’s Speech, The Mayor of Surabaya : A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)","authors":"Sueb Hadi","doi":"10.7176/jlll/76-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/76-03","url":null,"abstract":"Language plays the important roles in everyday life for human being. This article relates to the governmental leader using language in communicating with the community or people she leads in order to convey her thoughts of programs of work which will be implemented. It elaborates the usage of Tri Rismaharini’s language as the Mayor of Surabaya Indonesia with Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) Approach. The method, meanwhile, used in the research is qualitative descriptive and it is found the elements of language usage and content of speech providing a macro-themed structure of texts.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127453993","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 Protagonist’s Masculine Perceptions in Things Fall Apart as the Sign of Igbo Society Breakup","authors":"Jean Damascene Ngendahayo","doi":"10.7176/jlll/75-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/75-02","url":null,"abstract":"Things Fall Apart (TFA) is the novel written and published by Chinua Achebe in 1958 for recounting all social and cultural life and beliefs as well as the arrival of British Colonizers in the Igbo society of Nigeria. This paper aims at identifying the effects of the protagonist’s masculine perception in Things Fall Apart as the sign of Igbo society breakup. Okonkwo, the protagonist of the TFA is said in the whole novel and his different behaviors are still analyzed until now. This study elucidates the Okonkwo’s resistance against the British colonizers where he refuses to submit himself to them after slaying their messenger and prefers to die as a man by hanging himself, the act the Igbo society consider like an abomination. Along with that, the research analyzes how much Okonkwo scorns the women by considering them like weak people. Based on the analytical findings, this research reveals how his masculine perceptions portray the breakup of Igbo society socially and culturally as it has been noticed from TFA where he often blames those who behave like a woman among his clan members. The protagonist’s suicide openly exhibits the end of traditional Igbo society for the benefit of the British colonizers.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117265076","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":"Effects of SMS Texting on Academic Writing Skills of Undergraduate Students at a Public Sector University in Pakistan","authors":"M. A. Shah, Habibullah Pathan, H. Shah, Waqar Ali Shah","doi":"10.7176/jlll/75-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/75-05","url":null,"abstract":"The growing concern about the use of texting endangering the standard forms in language prompted the present research to determine the presence or absence of SMS features in the academic writing of the participants. Triangulation was used for data collection i.e. questionnaires for learners and educators and samples of the learners’ English written work were examined for SMS features. Simple average and ratio were used for descriptive analysis of the data. Contrary to the expectation, there were no significant evidences of these features in the sample. It seems being proficient in standard forms, these learners are context conscious and can switch to the appropriate register or style when writing formally .Thus the present study has demystified the popular belief about texting adversely affecting writing and thus destroying Standard English. Moreover, the evidences of one punctuation mark used in place of another indicate there can be other factors like carelessness or lack of knowledge of students and the lack of training, feedback or emphasis by educators or the system. So the matter of concern should be the general neglect of punctuation even out of the context of texting. It is found that the higher the exposure to the SMS, more the negative effect on the writing skills of the university students. The excessive use of this medium is leading students towards writing wrong spellings and using SMS language’s short abbreviations that are not standard in examinations and daily academic work that is very harmful in academia.","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115240657","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 Linguistic-Stylistic Representation of Women Oppression in Selected Calixthe Beyala’s Novels","authors":"Jummai Lucy","doi":"10.7176/jlll/75-07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/jlll/75-07","url":null,"abstract":"Calixthe Beyala is a notable French writer whose works have attracted readership across the globe. Previous studies have examined Calixthe Beyala’s novels from feminist, psychological, and systemic function linguistic points of view with insufficient attention paid to the linguistic stylistic features in Calixthe Beyala’s novels. This study, therefore, examines linguistic-stylistic representation of women oppression in Calixth Beyala’s novels. Four novels of Calixthe Beyala are purposively selected and form the data for this study. The study reveals that linguistic-stylistic features-culture words, contraction of words, neologism, pidgin French, direct transfer of African expressions characterize Beyalian novels. These linguistic-stylistic features depict women oppressions in a male-dominated African society, negritude experience outside the shores of Africa and are a representation of the socio-cultural, political, and economic realities and experiences in Cameroon in particular and Africa in general. dominated society namely: hegemonic, alternative, and ambiguous masculinity. While Matunda’s work examines how francophone women writers depict masculinity through characters and characterisation, our focuses on the depiction of women oppression in the works of Calixthe Beyala. Olayinka (2014) investigated how juvenile disorders are portrayed in selected works of Calixthe Beyala. The study, with bias from Freudian psychoanalytic and Nietsche’s resentment theories, showed Calixthe Beyala’s angst against oppression, girl-child abuse, violence and women oppression in a male-dominated African society. The study condemns in its entirety gender discrimination, female-sexuality control, girl-child commodification, marriage, forced marriage, motherhood, widowhood, and rape, incest or paedophilia and others which have become the order of the day in Africa.. While Olayinka examines Calixthe Beyala’s works from psychological approach, ours is purely a linguistic-stylistic analysis of selected Beyalian texts. Also, Halimi (2015), with orientations from existentialist points of view, studies the question of “self” and women identities in Beyalian novels. The study investigates the construction of women identities within the ambits of social and fictional francophone contexts. While Halimi investigates the construction of women identities in Calixthe Beyala’s works, ours focusses on the linguistic-stylistic representation of women oppression in Calixthe Beyala’s works. culture words, word clusters, neologism, contraction of words, pidgin French and direct transfer of African expression. Culture words show negritude experience of the African migrants, while words cluster reveal the depression suffered by Africans even in prisons. Neologism expresses creativity as well as foreground Beyala’s identity. The use of contrasted French words by Beyala is deliberate and is deployed to express informality and conviviality of the writer to the socio-political issues. The c","PeriodicalId":355193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics","volume":"11 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122301257","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}