01 - Third World Tapestries in the US: Allende and Sidwa - A Comparative Study
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).0110.31703/glr.2016(I-I).01 Published : Mar 2016
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The United States of America serves as a unique site for the literary world of contesting cultures due to the immigrant writers whose spirit of quest pulled them to this terra firma, away from their homelands. These exiled writers reside in the US but their native lands remain the thematic concern of their works. This study critically explores and investigates fictional accounts of two contemporar... Details
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Diaspora, Third World, First World, Postcolonial, Identity, Exile.
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(1) Amina Ghazanfar Butt
Lecturer, Department of English, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Bahramand Shah
Assistant Professor, Area Study Centre for Africa, North & South America, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
02 - Difficulties in Written Communication Faced by the Students of Commerce: A Study
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).0210.31703/glr.2016(I-I).02 Published : Mar 2016
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The purpose of this paper is to highlight difficulties the students of Bachelor of commerce (B.Com) face in written communication. During the final year of B.com they study the subject of business communication focused on business correspondence. The major barrier for the students is their inability to use syntax correctly. For this purpose data were collected from 125 randomly selected students f... Details
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Written Communication, Business Communication, ESL, Grammar, Morphological structure, Syntactical Structure
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(1) Muhammad Riaz
Lecturer, Department of English, Government College of commerce Lodhran, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Sana Gul
MPhil. Scholar, Northern University, Nowshera, KP, Pakistan.
03 - Voicing Critical Pedagogy in Academic Discourse: Exploring Power Structures thro
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).0310.31703/glr.2016(I-I).03 Published : Mar 2016
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Friere’s (1970) notion of critical pedagogy empowers marginalized section of educative practices. Neutral education process guarantees autonomy of learners and effective pedagogy. The paper uses this approach to critically investigate academic discourse. It was hypothesized that there were power structures and ideological underpinnings in academic discourse distorting the notion of critical ... Details
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Critical Pedagogy, Academic Discourse, Critical Discourse Analysis, Power structures.
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(1) Nazakat Awan
Lecturer, Department of English, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Safiullah
BS Student, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Akbar Ali
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
04 - A Study of Absurdity in Samuel Beckett9apos9s Play Waiting for Godot and Albert
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).0410.31703/glr.2016(I-I).04 Published : Mar 2016
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While keeping in view the elements of absurdity, the study focuses the analysis of Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot” and Camus’ novel “The Outsider”. The artistic features of these works such as title, setting, structure, theme, characters and actions/dialogues are overviewed through the lens of absurdity. Both of the texts have these issues in some prop... Details
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Samuel Beckett, Camus, Chaos, Existentialism, Absurdity, Novel and Play
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(1) Irfan Ullah
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan
(2) Liaqat Iqbal
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Abdur Rehman
Lecturer, Fauji Foundation Education System, Nowshera, KP, Pakistan.
05 - Test-Score Reliability of Essay Questions in BA Examination
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).0510.31703/glr.2016(I-I).05 Published : Mar 2016
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Writing is one of the basic language skills. Both objective tests and essay questions can be used to evaluate students’ performance in the writing skill. The objective tests are generally considered useful as they help in measuring certain abilities accurately and they yield reliable scores. But essay tests can be used more effectively to measure certain complex learning outcomes such as org... Details
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Language Testing, Writing Skill, Scorer Reliability, Essay Question
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(1) Muhammad Asif Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab
(2) Umbreen Ishfaq
Assistant Professor, Department of Education,, The University of Haripur, Haripur, KP, Pakistan.
06 - Problem of Learning Contents through English at BS Level: A Case Study of Agricu
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).0610.31703/glr.2016(I-I).06 Published : Mar 2016
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The present research relates English language teaching (ELT) effects on learning contents at the BS level in our province. It shows that the contents in syllabus teaching affect communicative ability of the students. It also explains the teachersâÃâ¬Ã⢠effective delivery of the required knowledge to the learners. The survey method was adopted for this study. Agriculture Univer... Details
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ELT, Syllabus, Ability, Knowledge
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(1) Naseer Ahmad
Lecturer IBMS, The Univeristy of Agriculture, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Henna Gul Nisar
Lecturer IBMS, , The Univeristy of Agriculture, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan
(3) Namra Munir
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
07 - Contrastive Analysis of the English and Pashto Adjectives
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).0710.31703/glr.2016(I-I).07 Published : Mar 2016
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The paper mainly focuses on the contrastive analysis of the use of English and Pashto adjectives. Contrastive Analysis hypothesis developed in the 20th century from the two renowned theories of language acquisition and linguistics i.e. behaviorism and structuralism. This hypothesis states that the major barriers in the second learning and acquisition process arise from the interference of the firs... Details
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Adjectives, Contrastive analysis, ESL
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(1) Akbar Ali
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Bilal Khan
Lecturer, Department of English, FATA University, Kohat, KP, Pakistan
(3) Nazakat Awan
Lecturer, Department of English, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan
08 - The Effectiveness of CLT in the ESL Context of Pakistan
http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2016(I-I).0810.31703/glr.2016(I-I).08 Published : Mar 2016
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The study investigates the effectiveness of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Public sector colleges of Pakistan. The experimental study traces improvement in comprehension and writing skills of intermediate level students (studying in grades 11 and 12). An experiment group and a control group are used to study the effects of CLT on learners’ progress. A pre-test and post-test are car... Details
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CLT, Experimental Design, ESL, GMT, Intermediate Level Learners, Pakistani Context.
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(1) Arshad Ali Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, UMT Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Hussain Ahmad
Lecturer, English Language Institute, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
(3) Sayyed Rashid Ali Shah
Assistant Professor, Faculty for Languages and Translation, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
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