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Gender Differences in the Use of Pronouns in Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication

Journal of Contemporary Poetics, 2021
This paper analyses gender differences in the use of pronouns by men and women bloggers of five leading Pakistani English e-newspaper blogs. For this purpose, 11258 blog posts from 1674 men and 1212 women bloggers were collected and two gendered corpora,
Ibrar Hussain Khan, Muhammad Amjad
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

Life as an ethnic minority (EM) university student: Comparing mental health challenges among local and international EM students in Hong Kong

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract University students globally face growing mental health challenges, with ethnic minority (EM) students—both local and international—being particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited research compares their experiences or identifies shared and distinct stressors, especially in non‐Western contexts.
Wang Xinyi, Naubahar Sharif
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Indigenization of Pakistani English in Kanza Javed’s Ashes, Wine and Dust

Studies in English Language and Education
This article explores the indigenization of English in Pakistan in Kanza Javed’s English novel ‘Ashes, Wine and Dust’. This exploratory and interpretative research employed a close reading of the novel to analyse lexical borrowing in Pakistani English ...
Maryam Arshad, Humaira Irfan Irfan, Rashid Hussain, Nurah Saleh Alfares   +3 more
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A Review of the ‘Speech Learning Model’ in the Perspectives of Learners of English in Pakistan

JISR Management and Social Sciences & Economics, 2019
This paper reports an experiment in which production of English plosives by advanced Pakistani learners was studied in the light of predictions of speech learning model (SLM).
Nasir Abbas Syed, Arshad Saleem
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Pashtun Images in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2018
Living in an area that has long been a battlefield where various world powers have often been at loggerheads, Pashtuns have frequently drawn the attention of several works of fiction. Yet literary scholars have largely ignored the importance of these works of fiction looking into the lives of Pashtuns.
Syed Hanif Rasool, Jahangir Khan
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University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Variation Among Pakistani Internet Blogs: A Multidimensional Analysis

Corporum, 2021
Pakistani English, being a non-native independent variety, has its registers that demonstrate linguistic variation at all levels. With the dawn of digital technology and the internet, new Internet registers, such as E ...
Asia Latif, Ayyaz Qadeer, Adnan Tahir
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English across Borders: Exploring Register Variation in South Asian Newspaper Editorials

NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2022
This  paper  is  a  multidimensional  analysis  of  Pakistani,  Indian,  and  Bengali newspaper editorials, and they are also compared with British newspaper editorials.
M. Ali, M. Sheeraz
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source