https://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/issue/feedInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature2023-03-28T01:38:05+11:00IJALEL Editorial Officeeditor.ijalel@aiac.org.auOpen Journal Systems<p>Founded in 2012, the International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature (IJALEL) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed international journal, published both electronically and in print. It covers the latest developments in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Linguistics and Literature. Through it tailored coverage coverage, the journal offers readers free access to all the important new research relevant to language and literature. While IJALEL strives to maintain high academic standards and an international reputation through the suggestions of the international advisory board, it welcomes original, theoretical and practical submissions from all over the world. 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The study adopts Variationist Sociolinguistics and Sociopragmatic Competence as the theoretical foundations because both account for the occurrence of variation and semantic change resulting from interference from L1 and other factors. The data for the study were generated through a two-year field investigation by means of participant observation and audiotape recording of interactions among participants who are bi/multilingual in English and one or more Nigerian indigenous languages. The active sites where the data were extracted include interactions among participants in the University environment, markets, churches and other social gatherings, and discussants on television and radio programmes. The findings indicate that the use of reduplicated elements cut across ages, gender, social status, and the diverse ethnolinguistic and educational backgrounds of Nigerians. These features of Nigerian English occur as lexical reduplication which combines identical elements in the open class system and the semantic reduplication that denotes redundancy and other contrastive forms. The features generate new semantic forms that perform several sociopragmatic functions within the Nigerian sociocultural context indicative of variant of new Englishes as outcome of English contact with indigenous languages.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 God’sgift Ogban, Mercy Imoh Ugothttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/7635Narcissistic Personality Disorder: An Application of the Psychoanalytic Theory to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre2023-03-28T01:37:01+11:00Faten Abdelaziz Dahyfatendahywork74@yahoo.comThis paper addresses a serious psychological mental state, namely Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) which has spread all over the globe, leaving its evil effects on the individuals and the societies. Firstly, I argue that Rochester in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1848) embodies a number of narcissistic traits and suffers from NPD according to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), Fourth Edition in 1994. Moreover, I highlight the causes for his suffering from this disorder according to psychoanalysis and how Jane herself was a possible candidate to become a narcissist, but she managed to evade this psychological disorder at an early stage. Finally, I argue that Charlotte Bronte’s nineteenth century novel, Jane Eyre, offers a proactive measurement to prevent NPD in individuals prone to suffer from this disorder, and the novel also presents an application of a psychological treatment plan that has been articulated by Psychoanalysts, particularly Otto Kernberg and Heinz Kohut: Jane successfully plays the role of an expert psychoanalyst who manages to offer treatment to a character suffering from NPD; this inspires readers with a possible treatment of NPD or at least provides insight into human nature.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 Faten Abdelaziz Dahyhttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/7636The Effects of Concept Mapping, Argument Mapping and Mind Mapping on 6th Graders’ Vocabulary Production2023-03-28T01:38:05+11:00Flora Keysanflorakeysan@gmail.comVahid Norouzi Larsariflorakeysan@gmail.comAs vocabulary is an important element in enhancing English knowledge, utilizing effective and novel vocabulary learning strategies help foster learners’ vocabulary production. The aim of this study is to present mapping techniques such as concept mapping, argument mapping, and mind mapping as innovative strategies to increase students’ vocabulary production. Several studies have been carried out on the impacts of concept mapping, argument mapping, and mind mapping techniques but there is no obvious comprehension of the supremacy of any of these strategies over the others. The present study investigated the impacts of the selected techniques on vocabulary production of 6th Graders. To this end, 90 female students (6th graders) studying in an English institute in Tehran, Iran were selected and categorized into three experimental groups. Each of these groups received one of the chosen techniques randomly. At the end of the instructional sessions, one post-test designed in fill-in-the-blanks format was performed to evaluate vocabulary production of the students. A One-Way ANOVA procedure was utilized to analyse the acquired results. The outcomes showed that the obtained differences between the groups of concept mapping, argument mapping and mind mapping were statistically significant. Those participants who used the concept mapping and mind mapping techniques performed better than their classmates of the argument mapping technique. It is worthy to note that learners, teachers, and materials’ designers can benefit from the findings of this study.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 Flora Keysan, Vahid Norouzi Larsarihttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/7637The Translation of “The Elephant Man”: Exploring the Trends and Perspectives2023-03-28T01:38:05+11:00Salman AlrefaeiS-S-Alrefaei@hotmail.comThis paper highlights the translation of Tim Vicary’s book, The Elephant Man, into the Arabic language. The Elephant Man is a wonderful but tragic story, based on real life events, about an unfortunate but noble man named Joseph Merrick. That is, Merrick had significant physical deformities, which made many recoils in horror when first seeing him. At the same time, however, Merrick was also an intelligent and caring man, with a depth and humanity that was readily recognizable to those who took the time to get to know him. Merrick’s life history is thus an important reminder that you should not judge someone by their appearance, but instead by the content of their character.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 Salman Alrefaeihttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/7638Dorothea Tanning: Erotic and Dark Aesthetics2023-03-28T01:37:01+11:00Nadia Hamimednadia.anglais@yahoo.frInspired by the greatly stimulating psycho-dramas of gothic and erotic fiction and the revolutionary potential of Surrealism, Dorothea Tanning renovates images which aim to go into the nature of feminine (and infancy) sensual and corporal experience, falling down the frontier between the real world and imagination pro a smooth inventive world wherein all odds can imaginably exist. The most famous work of Tanning art is perhaps the one from the 1940s where the artist utilizes a specific vivid approach to represent eroticism. Nevertheless, in deviating from this method to a further theoretical way, the woman artist scatters her wish to depict the gothic just as she was illustrating a gothic tale, to remind the gothic appreciation of difference and disintegration via pensiveness. An erotic charge throbs throughout Tanning’s work; youthful girls’ clothes seem ragged and hair tackled a lavish life of its own as the boundary between inexperience and knowledge becomes blurred. A power rises above the specifically erotic and turns out to be a more broad desire to live in any of its demonstrations.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 Nadia Hamimedhttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/7639CBI in Algeria’s Higher Education Institutions: Using the Adjunct Model to Teach Physics2023-03-28T01:37:01+11:00Dalila Belhassenadalila.belhassena@univ-usto.dzContent-Based Instruction is an approach in which the teaching is centered on the content, deeply rooted on the principles of communicative language teaching; CBI fosters students to take part and participate in the exchange of content. This theoretical article reflects upon Content-Based Instruction as a relevant language teaching approach, its background, a brief definition of the concept, and its principles. An overall overview of the status of English in Algeria is also undertaken with some hints of the linguistic policies and reforms held in Algeria. Moreover, this research paper reports on Content-Based Instruction’s distinctive characteristics and relies on the adjunct model to elaborate an instructional unit meant to implement CBI in the field of Physics and helps students gain a solid knowledge of English through tailored designed activities. The conclusion supports the assumption that the adjunct model as an approach fulfills the needs of learners by bridging ESL classes to academic content and proves to be effective in providing a transition between ESL and academic classes.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 Dalila Belhassenahttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/7640On the Quest to Study Abroad; Cultural, Linguistic and Economic Fallouts- matters Arising In Nigeria2023-03-28T01:37:01+11:00Azunwanna Onesimusazunwanna11458@run.edu.ngNigerian language and culture are endangered because of a strong craving to study abroad. The upsurge in the number of Nigerian youths fleeingthe country still grows for many reasons: while some go in pursuit of university education, others simply go in search of greener pastures. Yet, the cultural cum linguistic and economic implications of this mass exodus of the supposedly best brains of the country have received little or no scholarly attention. This paper therefore presents a discourse cum psycholinguistic analysis of some online newspaper publications on the presence and activities of Nigerians in oversea countries vis-à-vis, the aftermath on the Nigerian nation. The methodology involves a critical reading of selected online newspaper publications on educational issues in Nigeria and abroad. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Linguistic Theory (1929), and Anchimbe and Janney (2017) Postcolonial Pragmatic Theory are used to account for the hybridic discourses resulting from the mixture of different sociocultural and linguistic elements as a corollary of colonization. The results show that the alarming taste for oversea education in Nigeria has not only corrupted our communication system and cultural demeanor, it has also impacted negatively on the value of our currency, contributed to the general weakness of the Nigerian local universities and ultimately led to brain drain in Nigeria. It is therefore concluded that this trend has taken from us far more than whatever good it has brought and should immediately be discontinued as a necessary route to our cultural and economic emancipation.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 Azunwanna Onesimushttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/7641Teachers’ Perceptions of Oral Corrective Feedback in Form-focused Language Classrooms: Why do they Correct the Way they do?2023-03-28T01:37:01+11:00Eman Alshammariem.alshammari@uoh.edu.saRachel Wicaksonoem.alshammari@uoh.edu.saThis study focuses on Saudi teachers’ motivations regarding their choice of oral corrective feedback (OCF) forms, such as recasts, elicitations, and metalinguistic feedback in foreign language (FL) contexts. Many previous studies of teachers’ choices of OCF forms, and motivations for these choices, have been conducted in more communicative contexts where recasts are most commonly used, with the aim of keeping the communication going. The current study, in contrast, aims to explore teachers’ choices of, and motivations for, OCF forms in a more accuracy-focused context. The study uses rigorous methods to investigate 207 Saudi teachers’ perceptions of OCF, including 100 classroom observations, and 100 stimulated recall (SR) sessions with 10 teachers to further investigate their choices of, and motivations for, particular types of OCF, with reference to their learners’ uptake. The findings demonstrate that the teachers consider recasts to be the most effective method of correction for their students’ learning, especially in the case of pronunciation errors, in a context where the emphasis is placed on accuracy rather than on maintaining the flow of communication. This is in contrast to previous studies of OCF in more meaning-focused contexts, where recasts were used to maintain the flow of communication. The current study concludes by offering insights into some challenges that teachers in FL contexts might face and suggests some possible implications for teachers’ practice in these contexts.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 Eman Alshammari, Rachel Wicaksonohttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/7642The Difficulties Faced by Jordanian University Students in Passing the Listening Section of the TOFEL Test2023-03-28T01:37:01+11:00Mohammad Abd Alhafeez Ali Ta’amnehtaamnehmohammad@yahoo.comThis study aims to determine the most important difficulties that face graduate students while doing the listening section of the (iBT) TOEFL test. A sample of 214 students was selected from eight Jordanian universities during the summer semester in the academic year 2021- 2022. All participants studied English as a foreign language for more than fifteen years. The findings revealed that lacking practice the listening skill in real-life events, lacking concentration,disability improving listening skills in classes, misunderstandingm different listening topics and long dialogues, lacking practice in listening questions, misunderstanding complex structure and figurative expressions of some listening sentences, and disability in comprehending unfamiliar words and dialogues were the most difficulties that the students faced while doing the listening section of the TOFEL test.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 Mohammad Abd Alhafeez Ali Ta’amnehhttps://journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/7643Disciplinary and Move Analyses of Hedging in Abstracts of DIPES II Dissertations of the Higher Teachers’ Training college of Maroua2023-03-28T01:37:02+11:00Galbert Demanoucamillata@yahoo.co.ukCamilla Arundie Tabecamillata@yahoo.co.ukThis paper examines hedging as a rhetorical resource employed by fifth year (DIPES II) students of the Higher Teacher Training College of Maroua in Cameroon to show politeness, respect, humility and tentativeness in presenting their arguments or stating facts and subjective opinions. A specialized corpus of 46.368 tokens was used and hedges were retrieved using AntConc 3.4.4. Data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The analysis shows that there is generally an unsatisfactory representation of hedges in the abstracts. The findings further reveal that markers of intentional vagueness, accuracy hedges and writer-oriented hedges are the most common hedging strategies. Students seemingly rely on relatively simpler types of hedging like some, few, may, could, a number of. Conversely, more complicated constructions such as it appears that, it is possible that seem virtually inexistent. Students in the Department of Bilingual Letters were found to be more tentative than their counterparts of other disciplines. It is equally observed that more hedging strategies are used in stating research findings than in any other communicative purpose of the abstracts. In substance, the innovation in this paper may lie on its artful combination of disciplinary investigation with move analysis of hedging in a seemingly ‘marginalized’ academic genre, and its exclusive focus on novice writing in a non-native professional academic institution. This has led to the conclusion that the use of hedging can now be regarded as not only discipline-specific but also move-specific.2022-07-31T00:00:00+10:00Copyright (c) 2023 Galbert Demanou, Camilla Arundie Tabe