
Pervaiz AzharUniversity of Sargodha | UOS · Department of English
Pervaiz Azhar
Doctor of Philosophy
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Dr. Pervaiz Azhar currently works at the Department of English, University of Sargodha. Pervaiz did his PhD from University of AJK, Muzafar Abad and did research from University of York. He conducts his research mostly in Applied linguistics, Morphology, Syntax and Psycholinguistics. His current projects are 'ESP in the classroom', acquisition of 'The'/WH by Urdu L1 speakers in Pakistan.
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Motivation and anxiety play a significant role in the teaching and learning process, either it is second language learning or Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT). The current research aimed to investigate the motivation and anxiety faced by Pakistani English as Second Language (ESL) learners while learning English language. A quantitative research...
Emotions tend to have a detrimental impact on students' learning outcomes. This research project is an endeavor to investigate the emotions experienced by students in the ESL classroom and identify specific scenarios where both male and female participants experience positive and negative emotions. The aim is to investigate which Emotion-Regulation...
Technology has now become a central part of the field of teaching. The flipped classroom is a modern instructional method in which students watch videos on their own and teachers spend the classroom time engaging their students in different activities, quizzes, presentations, feedback, questions, and discussions. Different universities in Pakistan...
The present study highlights the differences and similarities between Urdu and English language based on Wh-movement. According to Manetta (2010), Hindi-Urdu exhibits a feature-driven overt Wh-movement to Spec vp, a point from which movement of Wh-word might gain clausal scope. The extent and nature of driven overt Wh-movement will be speculated in...
Examining the Second Language Interference among Urdu-English
Bilinguals through Lexical Retrieval
The current article investigates the hot topic of the assumption of lexical interference in English-Urdu bilingual speakers by applying Green’s model of Inhibitory Control (1998). Forty participants as a sample for research are selected from higher ed...
The Role of Flipped Language Learning in Developing the Higher Order Thinking Skills among the University Students in Pakistan
This research study aims to investigate the role of flipped language class models in
fostering higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) such as creative ability, evaluating and
analyzing ability among the students. Like all othe...
The present study explores the Neo Imperialistic analysis of Lord Jim by Conrad who is regarded as the central figure in the genre of post-colonial novels. It is an avatar of different strategies of Neo Imperialism which is indebted to an idea instead of the myth of tyranny and suppression. The study further investigates the seeds of the economic-o...
Flipped learning is the inverted classroom method, which introduces the lesson at home and encourages practise as well as other already-introduced lesson-based activities inside the classroom for practical purposes. Students can use their self-regulated learning strategies to continue with their respective content learning. In the current research,...
The spoken proficiency, considering the speaking skills in English of ESL learners, needs close attention. For the purpose of improving the speaking skills of students, oral presentation is the most common method used in academics to improve their spoken proficiency. The previous works are abundant with descriptions of ideal presentations. No speci...
In the given time and place the understanding and the usage of taboo language varies depending on the culture, literacy, gender, age, social status, profession, upbringing so on and so forth. The linguistic taboos which are catered by this paper are from Urdu language. This paper analyzes the variation with respect to two variables that are, age an...
The current study attempts to address the negotiation of gender identity in the Pakistani multilingualcontext to explore the gender identity of male and female speakers through conversation features ofopening, topic shifting, interruptions, and silence. The recorded and transcribed data of six peers in anacademic setting in the University of Sargod...
The present study draws a comparison between the role of a teacher through online learning and face to face (F2F) learning in a blended classroom. In recent years, blended form of learning has become a notorious way of giving guidance at all educational levels and across multifarious fields of study. Researchers conclude that there is an archetypic...
Proverbs are truths and general sayings that are frequently used as précised sayings (Rasul, 2015). Proverbs are used as a tradition from generation to generation with a slight change. As a manifestation of traditional values they are accepted blindly and become the part of that very society. Proverbs have great significance in the context of gende...
The present study aims to investigate a genre-based story phases analysis as to explore schematic structures in terms of stages and phases embedded in the selected narratives, by adopting the Sydney School approach that is inspired by Systemic Functional Linguistics. The analysis has been achieved through story family genre framework (Martin & Rose...
Purpose of the study: The purpose of the current study is to investigate the acquisition of Wh-questions of English by Urdu L1 speakers in Pakistan. Acquisition of different syntactic structures has been an attractive area of interest for the scholars working in the area of second language acquisition. The study draws on approaches of Universal Gra...
The primary objective of the current study is to discover the impact of Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) on vocabulary learning of EFL learners at primary level in Pakistan, and to examine the efficiency of PWIM for vocabulary building in comparison with Grammar Translation Method (GTM). To maintain the interest of the students, it is imperative...
The aim of this research is to analyse the usage of writing techniques used by the ELT practitioners in English textbooks used by the teachers in elementary level government and private schools. To meet this objective, the present study is divided into two parts: the questionnaires (consisting of 20 statements) which were filled by the ELT practiti...
Media is one of the most influential instruments of propaganda now a days. Countries, nations and organisations adopt this tool to influence the minds of the masses in favour or against some individual or group. The current study attempts to investigate the anti-Pakistan sentiment as depicted in the film media, mainly in the Hollywood movies. It is...
Folktales are considered as the simplest and oldest form of stories imbedded in the local cultures. They broadly refer to orally transmitted, traditional narratives that carry cultural information. This paper analyzes Sohni Mahiwal, the renowned Punjabi folktale, by applying Greimas Actantial's model for structural analysis. The purpose of this stu...
Linguistic imperialism started as a concept in applied linguistics which initially emerged from a multilingual interaction where the focus has been explicitly on how and why a language dominates others in a particular multilingual context and in terms of a theoretical framework. As deeply rooted in the European legacy, the phenomenon has been viewe...
The current research aims at exploring the status of Urdu and English in Pakistan. There has always been a rift between Urdu and English in order to stay dominant language in the spheres of power like education, law and bureaucracy in Pakistan. There were many steps taken to replace English practically and the latest of the plans was initiated in 2...
Linguistic taboos are the interesting ways of the reflection of social norms and cultural values of a society within its language. The present study analyzes the changing nature of the linguistic taboos of Pakistani society and explores the approaches of the members of society towards these taboos. Fourteen linguistic taboos were selected for this...
This article presents an overview of the errors committed by the students of science subjects.These students are predominantly concerned with the concepts of basic sciences like Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. As a result, they fail to concentrate on the other subjects like English which is an integral part of their studies. The researchers too...
Linguistic taboos are the interesting ways of the reflection of social norms and cultural
values of a society within its language. The present study analyzes the changing nature of
the linguistic taboos of Pakistani society and explores the approaches of the members of
society towards these taboos. Fourteen linguistic taboos were selected for th...
In this paper, the acoustic properties of voiceless glottal fricative [h] in Urdu language are analyzed and compared between regular and non-regular Urdu speakers. Regular Urdu speakers imply those speakers whose L1 is Urdu; whereas non-regular Urdu speakers imply those whose L1 is Pashto and Punjabi. Data relating to [h] at word medial and word fi...
The present study aims to explore the contextual and individual motivational factors influencing the English as a second language (ESL) learning. It further attempts to explore factors found in the environment which contribute and make the second language learning different at gender level. The study further supports Kissau’s (2006), argument that...
Urdu and English are two different and popular languages with different word orders. Like other Indo Aryan languages of South Asia Urdu has the SOV word order and all of these languages are articleless languages whereas English is with article language. As a result, the learners of articleless languages fluctuate while using the article. In order t...