Although fiction is a work of imagination, it is a mirror of the author’s society. Writers of fiction are inspired based on what they experience. A reader therefore, reads a work not just for the entertainment that it offers but also for the education it offers about the society....
The Dilemma of a Ghost is Ama Ata Aidoo’s response to the unwary Europeans who nurse the impression that Africa is savage. A lot of Europeans disparage Africa and in their individual books, they express their aversion for the continent by presenting Africa as being too primitive...
A retrospect of the close to 60 years after the reunification of Cameroon unveils a systematic chain of political repression, cultural marginalization, linguistic segregation and assimilation by the uninterrupted Francophone regimes on the Anglophones. This has led to Anglophone...
Although there has been a not quite short history of language policy and planning, the attention is more paid to the macro-level policy and planning of the national government. However, recent studies have begun to move the eyes to the individual actors in the local context, thus...
This paper is intended to make an analysis of Ian McEwan’s most outstanding work—Atonement in the light of postmodern narrative theories, regarding both biblical allusions and literary parodies. Since former research does not provide enough in-depth discussion on this specific su...
San Juan is the poorest barangay in Malvar, Batangas, Philippines for having the highest number of households with income below poverty threshold. San Juan also has the most number of households with income below food threshold (CBMS 2012). For these reasons, San Juan was chosen...
The current study aimed to identify the role played by the English novel in teaching English in secondary school. The study also explores how the English novel as a form of literature plays a pivotal role in promoting secondary school students’ English language proficiency and ho...
Recently, the Silk Road became revived by the People’s Republic of China as the global economic power, including the contacts along its ancient routes. Beijing is aiming to reactivate the Silk Road that once linked China with Central and Southeast Asia, the Gulf States, Africa, a...
This study determined the awareness on cultural diversity of learners among faculty at San Pedro National High School, Sto. Tomas, Batangas, Philippines. Specifically, it dealt with the following: the respondents’ profile in terms of age, sex, highest educational attainment and n...
Aims: The present study focuses on the investigating of children's attitudes and beliefs about the role of the arts in their leisure time. Study Design: Mixed method research. Place and Duration of Study: Greece and Cyprus, between May 2014 and May 2016. Methodology: We included...