Shouket Tilwani

ABSTRACT This research examines the lives of Muslims in the post-9/11 fiction with special reference to Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and H.M. Naqvi's Home Boy (2009) as they are placed in a “zone of indistinction” in the post 9/11 fiction. Each of these texts emphasizes the psychological issues of protagonists engrossed in the...

This study aims to explore the status of English for Academic Purposes in terms of factors, content, methodology and assessment, among Moroccan English Language Learners. A crosssectional design constitutes the methodology of this research wherein a sample of fifty-two students completed a Google form questionnaire using nonprobability voluntary sa...

The present research focuses on discursive practices of political activists and media persons on Twitter by drawing on the discourse-centred online ethnography for critical discourse analysis of the interactions. Studying these interactions, we argue that political activists' resistance against mainstream media persons' commentary serves to discred...

Purpose In today’s educational landscape, technology has become an undeniable force in shaping pedagogical approaches and even the definition of learning itself. But this path contains many obstacles. Within the higher education ecosystem, the digital divide – the disparity in access and use of technology – is proving to be a significant barrier fo...

Student engagement and the learning environment have gained momentum within the educational research space as valid factors in determining the quality of education. However, empirical evidence on the relationships between the learning environment and student engagement remains scant in the context of higher education in Ethiopia. This article exami...

Airway inflammation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and anti-inflammatory therapy effectively improves the symptoms of these diseases. There are more than 30 species of the genus Glycyrrhiza, which are widely distributed throughout t...

Airway inflammation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and anti-inflammatory therapy effectively improves the symptoms of these diseases. There are more than 30 species of the genus Glycyrrhiza, which are widely distributed throughout t...

This comparative study delves into the nuanced realm of resistance literature originating from the conflicted territories of Kashmir and Palestine. It seeks to examine and juxtapose the literary expressions emerging from these regions, shedding light on their shared themes and narratives that articulate resistance against political oppression, occu...

The introduction of modern education, especially adult education, has a long history in Ethiopia. However, consistent implementation remains a big challenge to reach all adults. Considering this situation in mind, the current study was conducted to scrutinise the fundamental challenges faced by adult education programs and identify promising interv...

Government reforms such as the general education quality Improvement programs for equity are implemented to address concerns about educational inequality. However, studies advancing understanding of the patterns of gender inequality in achievement in conflict affected areas are rare. The purpose of this article is to examine patterns in gender ine...

Purpose Given the importance of teacher leadership in influencing, motivating and inspiring student learning engagement and associated learning outcomes, a robust instrument to assess this construct is critical. Although there are some teacher leadership instruments available in existing literature, efforts to adapt robust psychometric instruments...

In the dynamic world of higher education, lifelong learning is important to both individuals and institutions, and measuring it can provide insightful data for both. The purpose of this study is therefore to refine and validate the psychometric qualities of the Lifelong Learning Measurement Scale (LLMS), created to measure academic staff’s engageme...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine effects of classroom-level and student-level factors on student engagement in the context of a higher education system vertically differentiated into research, applied and comprehensive university types. Design/methodology/approach The study used a cross-sectional multilevel design to explain student...

The study's main purpose is to evaluate the planning practices of the Ethiopian Integrated Functional Adult Education (IFAE) programme and to draw lessons that can be learned for future adult education programmes. The study used an explanatory sequential mixed methods research design and involved 224 participants. Data were collected using question...

Within the vibrant yet complex ecosystem of higher education institutions, nurturing a culture of employee voice is critical for driving innovation, fostering engagement, and optimizing decision-making. However, it's still a complex task to identify the main factors influencing voice behaviour. This study ventures into this fertile ground, examinin...

Although the erstwhile colonies in the Third World are free from the colonial occupation, the imperialist hegemony continues, to be resisted in the societies. For, such enterprise has provided the pretext for the concepts of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ followed by occupation, a reign of violence and terror loosened upon the natives. This paper aims to study...

Purpose The current synthesis study was conducted to locate comprehensive perspectives about the transformation of higher education institutions from being the only places where formal education programs are offered into settings where lifelong learning can be integrated. This demands an inquiry through not only instance investigation but also a mo...

This research seeks to illustrate how the COVID-19 epidemic has affected students' motivation, engagement, and learning. Students had learning difficulties during the pandemic, as demonstrated by their nonattendance in online courses and their inability to turn in homework on sites such as Google Classroom. Acknowledging these difficulties, the ins...

The use of social media within the educational research space has recently received attention for determining interactions within educational contexts. Multidimensional constructs such as student engagement and the learning environment that affect learning have also been pronounced recently. However, the place of social media use within the psychos...

When considering staff engagement in higher education, scrutinizing the issues of nurturing a healthy workplace environment as well as valuing lifelong learning and professional development opportunities cannot be overstated to enhance both personal and institutional effectiveness. In this sprite, the main objective of this study is located to esti...

Purpose The main purpose of this study is aimed to estimate the mediating role of student engagement in the structural relationships between students' field of study choice, learning readiness and academic competence of undergraduate students in higher education. Design/methodology/approach In the study process, a correlational design was employed...

Objective The relationship between caregivers and children has importance for the development of children’s mental health and wellbeing. This study examines the association between orphaned children’s mental health and their relationship with their current caregivers. Method It used a correlational research design, appropriate to answer the resear...

The issue of marital dissatisfaction has emerged as a significant concern in light of economic instability and educational deficiencies, necessitating the attention of contemporary scholarly works and policymakers. Therefore, the current study aims to examine the effects of dowry-related pressures, male ego, and gender discrimination on the overall...

Purpose-Lifelong learning has become one of the most interesting areas of research. Hence, the current study was aimed at developing and validating a tool that helps to study how well people working in higher education institutions are engaged in lifelong learning. Design/methodology/approach-A review of theories in the literature and experts' cons...

This article discusses marginalized women's resistance to patriarchal norms in a male-dominated Afghan society. This study analyses the literary modes of selected autobiographies-Fawzia Koofi's The Favored Daughter, Sarina Sarwari's Sokhan-i Del-i Yek Zan (Words from the Heart of a Woman) and Hadisa Osmani's Pursuing My Dreams as an Afghan Woman-wi...

Blended learning is widely accepted in Peruvian higher education for a number of reasons, including the fact that it allows students more leeway to accommodate their own unique schedule and learning needs. The present qualitative research investigates the qualities of effective teachers that are crucial to the successful implementation of blended l...

The main purpose of this study was to explore the impact of the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) armed violence on educational institutions, students’ educational attainments, and the role of actors playing in school governance and redirecting the education process. This study was positioned to yield preliminary evidence which can serve as inp...

The research aims to explore the Kashmir conflict that has fractured the lives of the Kashmiri people. In the current times, the Kashmir conflict has been remarkably engaging literate circles all over the world. The conflict has been in the news worldwide for the last three decades because it may cause modern-day warfare betweenIndia, Pakistan, and...

The main purpose of this study was to explore the impact of the Tigray People Liberation Front’s armed violence on the attainment of student education and the role of parents' involvement in the resiliency of the education process. In doing so, a convergent mixed-method research design was used. Accordingly, both qualitative and quantitative data w...

This paper presents the English as A Second Language (ESL) learners’ motivation for using Google Docs to write collaboratively. The study includes learners’ motivations for using Google Docs in writing regarding interaction with classmates and a lecturer. It employed a descriptive research design in collecting the data for the current study. Eighty...

This study was conducted to build evidence-based research about the provision of Ethiopian adult education. Therefore, the main purpose of this meta-synthesis study was to upsurge understanding from empirical facts and give evidence-based research regarding the provision of adult education in Ethiopia from the standpoint of policy and practice a wi...

The study’s objective is to investigate the practices and challenges of implementing an integrated functional adult education program. The study used a mixed-method approach with a convergent design. Data were gathered from IFAE learners, facilitators, district education experts, supervisors, and the program’s technical committees. Simple random sa...

The present study is a differential study that describes the nature of the relationship between cooperation and altruistic behavior in a sample of gifted adolescents in three universities in Egypt and Kuwait University. It also identified the differences between males/females, and senior students/junior students in both cooperation and altruism. A...

There has been a dearth of studies exploring the development of online learning platforms in Indonesian ESP classes in recent years. To fill such a lacuna, the present study was designed to develop an online learning application for pharmacy students in their ESP learning in an Indonesian higher education setting. Encapsulated by Gall, Borg, and Ga...

One of the inputs for a high-quality education is using laboratory activities which are characteristic features of science teaching at all levels of education. Consequently, this study was carried out to investigate the perception and practice centered on assessing the practice of laboratory work and identifying the factors that affect its implemen...

Knowledge management is the term used to describe approaches that knowledge workers employ in fulfilling their assigned tasks. The use of technology eases the process of completing their work because it provides systematic methods of managing the process of applying knowledge. Therefore, the current study seeks to find answers on the use of YouTube...

This study explores the immediate and delayed impacts of songs on implicit vocabulary learning in terms of spoken-form recognition (SFR), form-meaning connection (FMC), and collocation recognition (CR) of Iranian intermediate female english as a foreign language (EFL) learners. For this purpose, a total of 150 female EFL learners, aged from 11 to 1...

The main purpose of this research was to explore the lived experience of students who learn postgraduate classes without having prior work experience. To achieve the intended objective, the team of researchers used a qualitative research approach. The phenomenological research design was used to have the real lived experience of novice scholarship...

It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the connection between emotional intelligence, strategy use, and vocabulary knowledge. However, very little attention has been paid to this subject, to the best of researchers’ knowledge. To this end, intermediate students were considered through the Cambridge English: Key English Test (KET). After ta...

With the point of departure in discourse analysis (DA), this corpus comparative study concentrated on sequences with adversarial questions in political press conferences to investigate the differences in the use of adversarial questioning between two contexts, namely, English and Persian political press conferences, and particularly highlight the s...

As a critical appraisal, this study investigated the correspondence between teachers’ corrective feedback strategies used in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes and students’ preferences of corrective feedback strategies by analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data. The participants were 20 high school English teachers and 50 student...

This study examines the educational and psychological need for learning English and understands various anxieties. The first section, a literature review, examines the theoretical underpinnings of educational and psychological needs for English language learning and anxiety. An important subject running through this research is how anxiety plays a...

Regarding the popularity of TED Talks which are freely accessible online, we were encouraged to examine the impacts of this online resource on Indonesian EFL learners’ listening skills. The Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was used to recruit 70 Indonesian intermediate respondents for the research. They were then split into two groups: one experi...

The purpose of this research is to examine the mediating role of knowledge sharing and intrinsic motivation on the relationship between intrinsic rewards for creativity and employee creativity and furthermore explore the mediating role of intrinsic motivation on the relationship between intrinsic rewards for creativity and knowledge sharing. A tota...

Fluency is one of the most important components of oral proficiency, which can be affected by a number of variables including frequency, duration, and place of pause phenomena. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingualism on learning a foreign language from the angle of fluency and pausing patterns by comparing the pausing pa...

Ensuring second language (L2) learners have an adequate breadth and depth of L2 vocabulary knowledge is a key pedagogical objective in L2 learning contexts. For this reason, establishing guiding principles that successfully enhance the efficacy of L2 vocabulary knowledge development is of strong importance. The current study investigated the value...

This paper presents the findings of a study which aimed at exploring the washback of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) English examinations on English teaching and learning practice at secondary schools in Bangladesh. For this purpose, a qualitative research (employing interviews with English teachers, FGDs with students and classroom observat...

The present investigation aimed at studying emotional terms (ETs) in Persian and English bed-night stories for children by adopting a contrastive analysis approach within two phases. Emotional terms were categorized into two theoretical models (tokens and types) in phase one of the study, and in the second phase, the effect of teaching emotive narr...

Cooperative Language Learning (CLL) approach or Collaborative Learning (CL) is used in the present paper to encourage third year professional students to learn from their peers consequently, they could enhance their writing skills. Further, the students in CLL groups are trained for developing personal interaction and linguistic competence in a soc...

The use of bilingual dictionaries and translation websites is an observed practise among English language learners (ELLs) in Morocco, especially starting from the second decade of the twentieth-first century when dictionaries have become online. Translation from and into Standard Arabic is regarded as one of the ways of learning new words among lea...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of using authentic materials on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' reading comprehension, reading motivation, and reading anxiety. In this study, 58 Iranian male EFL learners were selected and randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. Both groups were pretested through a reading...

This study investigated the impact of spaced and massed instruction on foreign language reading motivation and reading attitude among Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners. To fulfil this objective, 60 Iranian participants were chosen among 120 students based on the results of Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT). The selected pre-intermediate partic...

The present study investigates the potential of using the CALL-based platform of Rosetta Stone application and Mall-based platform of Rosetta Stone application for teaching English vocabularies to EFL learners. The current study was carried out on a sample of 60 male Iranian language learners within the age range of 15 to 25 in a private English la...

Hassan, Flipped classroom model and self-efficacy in an Iranian English as a foreign language context: A gender-based study Abstract Abstract This study aimed to investigate the impact of the flipped classroom model on students' self-efficacy and the difference in self-efficacy between males and females using this model. In order to accomplish this...