September 2014

An evaluation of an English as Second Language (ESL) Pakistani college textbook: Meeting the needs of the Pakistani students

  This study investigated how textbooks influence learning experiences and aims to highlight the pedagogical implications of the incorporation of materials as the backbone of language-teaching programme.  It analysed and evaluated a prescribed textbook (“Prose and Heroes” – a Compulsory English course book for intermediate classes in Pakistan), and explored the degree it benefited and...

Author(s): Asma Aftab, Ayesha Sheikh and Isabel William

September 2014

Investigating the washback effect of the Pakistani Intermediate English Examination

  The impact of a test on teaching and learning is commonly referred to as the washback effect.  This study investigated the nature and scope of the washback effect from the Intermediate English examination on teachers and students of a public sector college in Pakistan.  The research relied on qualitative approach utilizing interviews to collect data from six teachers and six students.  The data...

Author(s): Asma Aftab, Sabeen Qureshi and Isabel William

September 2014

Teachers’ emotional intelligence and sense of self-efficacy beliefs: A study on public second cycle primary school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in Bahir Dar Town, Ethiopia

The purpose of this study was to examine public second cycle primary school English as Foreign Language   (EFL) teachers’ level of emotional intelligence (EI) and self-efficacy beliefs and the relationship between the two constructs. Forty-   three randomly selected EFL teachers were taken as a sample of the study. To generate data and answer the research questions, the researcher adapted two...

Author(s): Girma Wossenie

September 2014

Indian mindscape: Caste, class hegemony with reference to Kannada short story ‘Classmate’

  Caste identity is not just a question of consciousness; it is a matter of structure, of power. Can the category Dalit merely represent a perspective? Can it just be a standpoint? And what are the tools/ideas/texts that would enable a Dalit perspective? Can a Dalit perspective be divorced from the experience of being termed an untouchable? Untouchability is not a singular experience; what holds Dalits together...

Author(s): Agrawal Shuchi