On the Construct Validity of the Iranian Ministry of Health Language Exam (MHLE) [PDF]
Journal of Language Horizons, 2020 Considering validity as a unitary concept, this study investigated the construct validity of the Iranian Ministry of Health Language Exam (MHLE). To meet this objective, we first conducted item analysis and reliability analysis, and verified KR20-if-item-
S. Susan Marandi +2 more
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Sustainable beauty in the Digital era: A multimodal discourse study of tiktok live commerce in Indonesia [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe rise of TikTok Live Commerce has reshaped Indonesia’s beauty industry into a digital arena where sustainability becomes both a market value and a communication strategy.
Khasanah Wirdatul +4 more
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Preserver and Destroyer The Significance of Religion in Marcus Gardley’s Drama [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانیThe post-black playwright, Marcus Gardley has been concerned with the concept of African American identity as defined within the nexus of diverse socio-cultural elements.
Mahdieh Ahmadi +2 more
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EFL Professors’ vs. Teachers’ Home Culture Attachment
Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2021 The purpose of the present study is to determine whether studying or teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) will lead teachers to decrease home cultural values or help them to develop their cultural values in both cultures. This mix-method research
Saba Hasanzadeh +2 more
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Postcolonial performativity analysis and its relation to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of Southeast Asian BL-themed short movies [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis study looks at how sex, love, and gender are portrayed in Southeast Asian boys-love (BL)-themed short films. In the popular Japanese subgenre known as “boys love,” male characters are explored in their romantic and frequently sexual interactions ...
Mustofa Ali +3 more
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A Study of Different Aspects of Hutcheonian Parody in Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs
Critical Literary Studies, 2020 The purpose of the present article is to investigate Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs (1997) within a theoretical context set by Linda Hutcheon’s definition of parody. In Hutcheon’s view, parody is a repetition with critical distance.
Farhad Najafi, Alireza N/A Farahbakhsh
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Navigating Decentralized Realities: Identity, Belonging, and Transcultural Experiences in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانیThere have been major changes in African contemporary literature. It depicts the decentralized realities that Africans experience in the increasingly interconnected world going beyond singular narratives. The devolution of ethnic cultures and the rise of
Sajjad Gheytasi, Ali Salami
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Manifestations of Racial Discrimination as Shown in selected Poems by Maya Angelou [PDF]
Beni-Suef University International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020 This research aims to highlight the unique existence of black women as they go on their daily lives in a land in which tyranny over women is still evident. Maya Angelou is a poet who presents the existence of being black, poor, and female.
Hanaa Eid +2 more
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The Status Quo of Language Assessment Literacy among Syrian EFL Teachers [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2021 With the increasing importance of Language Assessment Literacy in recent years, identifying the assessment literacy components in different contexts becomes essential to ensure that language teacher professional development is on the right path, thus ...
Duaa Sulaiman +2 more
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Trauma and Recovery: Interaction of Love and War in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانیAs one of the most important literary works written by an American writer, A Farewell to Arms has been studied from the perspective of a variety of critical approaches.
Behzad Pourgharib +2 more
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