Including the learner's culture in English language teaching may stimulate interest in learning a new language. English is not the mother tongue of the learners of our Indian context. The English language is recognized as a global language, and the demand for it is remarkable in...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1310
Aims: This study investigates Saudi EFL learners’ perceptions of the AI-powered chatbot ELSA Speak in developing speaking proficiency, specifically fluency and pronunciation accuracy, and the challenges encountered during chatbot use. Study Design: A qualitative research design g...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1309
Aims: This study examines how persuasion operates in Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, engaging current Romantic and rhetorical scholarship that has traditionally read the poem as a celebration of natural unity and mutual desire. Rather than treating the lyric as purely...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1308
The integration of AI technologies into language learning has become increasingly popular, offering new possibilities and challenges. However, the use of AI tools for vocabulary learning in EFL contexts remains underexplored. Grounded in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1307
Aims: This research conducts an in-depth literary analysis of Manuel E. Arguilla’s "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife," "A Morning in Nagrebcan," and "Rice." It seeks to analyze how these stories serve as foundations of Afro-Asian literature by exploring their thematic foun...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1306
Cleft constructions are widely used across languages to encode focus in an utterance. The constructions act as the main and central mechanism of marking focus in many languages. The study done in many languages, including Bantu and non-Bantu, noticed macro variation in how clefts...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1305
In the present-day context, climate culture is understood as the narratives (stories), ethics (doctrines), and emotions (affections) that shape how societies comprehend the ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, and this is what literature and the humanities reconstruc...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1304
Morpheme structure conditions (MSCs) are a term used in generative phonology to refer to conditions imposed on the structure of morphemes of language. Makhuwa is a Bantu language spoken in southern Tanzania, mainly in Masasi district, but also in the south-western parts of Nachin...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1302
Teaching Grammar has long been a central and debated issue in English language pedagogy, especially in EFL and ESL contexts, as teachers and learners often face diverse linguistic and instructional challenges. There are many influential approaches to teaching grammar, but the ind...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1303
This study aimed to examine whether reading attitude mediates the relationship between school climate and reading motivation among Junior High School students. A quantitative, descriptive-correlational design was used, and data were collected from 302 respondents through adapted...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i1301