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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The current study seeks to validate L2 grit measure among 637 Chinese senior middle school students using a bifactor modeling approach. To do so, we first assessed and compared four alternative measurement models including CFA, bifactor CFA, ESEM, and ...
Eerdemutu Liu, Junju Wang, Sachurina Bai
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Open Cultural Studies, 2022 This article aims to investigate the constraints on the English translation of the Arabic novel Saq Al-Bambu (The Bamboo Stalk) and identify the translation strategies that were adopted to render the literary work in light of Baker’s Taxonomy (1992 ...
Rababah Sarah, Al-Abbas Linda
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The centrality of Medea in Gower’s ‘Tale of Jason and Medea’
Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2023 Showcasing some examples of Gower’s artistic use of form to serve content, this article argues that the formalistic structure of ‘The Tale of Jason and Medea’ is a rhetorical means deployed by the poet to manage his narrative content and highlight its ...
Malek Jamal Zuraikat
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Open Cultural Studies, 2022 Given the conservative nature of Arab societies, Vladimir Nabokov’s English novel Lolita (1955) poses considerable challenges to Arab translators because of its pornographic nature and controversial themes: pedophilia, incest, and young teenage sex. This
Al Saideen Bassam +2 more
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Student Retellings: Adapting Middle English Literature in Singapore
New Chaucer Studies, 2023 This article discusses a creative assignment in which students make their own adaptations of Middle English texts. Using three examples of student work, I argue that adaptation encourages students to pay close attention to the medieval text, while also ...
Katherine Storm Hindley
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“Terrible Letters”: Bad Handwriting and its Implications, 1020–1220
SELIM, 2023 This article focuses on the role of one of the most fundamental of medieval figures—the scribe, as well as on the products of scribes in the eighth to thirteenth centuries.
Elaine Treharne
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Interrelationships between Language and Literature from Old English to the Modern Period [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2012 Literature is the aesthetic manifestation of language. It is ‘as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise.’ This paper explores the interrelationships between language and literature from 600 AD to the present day.
Esmail Zare Behtash
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SELIM, 2023 Book review of Ruszkiewicz, Dominika. 2021. Love and Virtue in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry. Studies in Medieval Language and Literature, 58. Berlin: Peter Lang. Pp. 221. ISBN 9783631861738.
Nicola Royan
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Limited empirical research on the key competencies of front-line English teachers, particularly primary and middle school English teachers in rural regions, exists in the current literature.
Huashan Lu, Changgang Jiang, Fei Guo
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STRENGTHENING ISLAMIC LITERATURE IN THE INDONESIAN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Indonesian Journal of Islamic Literature and Muslim Society, 2021 The emerging interest in using literature to teach English has not yet highlighted the significance of Islamic literature within Indonesian educational context.
Dedi Irwansyah
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