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Laura E. Beer and Jacqueline C. Birnbaum (Eds.): Trauma-Informed Music Therapy: Theory and Practice
Authors: Ramos-Watt Sandra
Published: July 2023

This is a book review of Trauma-Informed Music Therapy: Theory and Practice edited by Laura E. Beer and Jacqueline C. Birnbaum and published by Routledge in 2022.
The music therapy profession is fortunate to have a timely and comprehensive study of the principles of trauma-informed care, one that tackles challenging issues related to race, culture, systemic oppression, power dynamics, and gender-identity. To practice ethically, it is critical that we understand how and why trauma manifests in our clients’ lives. Because of the prevalence of trauma in the lives of people worldwide, professional music therapists have a moral responsibility to learn about trauma-informed care. Resources that afford health practitioners an opportunity to enhance the clinical skills needed to treat survivors of trauma are essential. Trauma-Informed Music Therapy: Theory and Practice is a vital book that can support music therapists in developing knowledge that can aid in providing effective care to the clients they serve.
Advertisement: Johnson Matthey Virtual Platinum Group Metal Conference 2023
Authors: Schofield Emma R.
Published: July 2023

Join us for our online conference, where we will be asking important questions about the future of platinum group metals (pgms), their contribution to technology development and the net zero transition. The conference brings together industry and academics, professional organisations and policymakers, to discuss the critical role pgms have to play in the technologies of the future.
On Dynamics in Structured Argumentation Formalisms
Authors: Rapberger Anna , Ulbricht Markus
Published: July 2023

This paper is a contribution to the research on dynamics in assumption-based argumentation (ABA). We investigate situations where a given knowledge base undergoes certain changes. We show that two frequently investigated problems, namely enforcement of a given target atom and deciding strong equivalence of two given ABA frameworks, are intractable in general. Notably, these problems are both tractable for abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) which admit a close correspondence to ABA by constructing semanticspreserving instances. Inspired by this observation, we search for tractable fragments for ABA frameworks by means of the instantiated AFs. We argue that the usual instantiation procedure is not suitable for the investigation of dynamic scenarios since too much information is lost when constructing the abstract framework. We thus consider an extension of AFs, called cvAFs, equipping arguments with conclusions and vulnerabilities in order to better anticipate their role after the underlying knowledge base is extended. We investigate enforcement and strong equivalence for cvAFs and present syntactic conditions to decide them. We show that the correspondence between cvAFs and ABA frameworks is close enough to capture dynamics in ABA. This yields the desired tractable fragment. We furthermore discuss consequences for the corresponding problems for logic programs.
Suppression of NLRP3 inflammasome by ivermectin ameliorates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis
Authors: Abd-Elmawla Mai A. , Ghaiad Heba R. , Gad Enas S. , Ahmed Kawkab A. , Abdelmonem Maha
Published: July 2023

Ivermectin is a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved antiparasitic agent with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties. Although recent studies reported the possible anti-inflammatory activity of ivermectin in respiratory injuries, its potential therapeutic effect on pulmonary fibrosis (PF) has not been investigated. This study aimed to explore the ability of ivermectin (0.6 mg/kg) to alleviate bleomycin-induced biochemical derangements and histological changes in an experimental PF rat model. This can provide the means to validate the clinical utility of ivermectin as a treatment option for idiopathic PF. The results showed that ivermectin mitigated the bleomycin-evoked pulmonary injury, as manifested by the reduced infiltration of inflammatory cells, as well as decreased the inflammation and fibrosis scores. Intriguingly, ivermectin decreased collagen fiber deposition and suppressed transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) and fibronectin protein expression, highlighting its anti-fibrotic activity. This study revealed for the first time that ivermectin can suppress the nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptor family pyrin domain-containing protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome, as manifested by the reduced gene expression of NLRP3 and the apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase recruitment domain (ASC), with a subsequent decline in the interleukin-1β (IL-1β) level. In addition, ivermectin inhibited the expression of intracellular nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) and hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) proteins along with lowering the oxidative stress and apoptotic markers. Altogether, this study revealed that ivermectin could ameliorate pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis induced by bleomycin. These beneficial effects were mediated, at least partly, via the downregulation of TGF-β1 and fibronectin, as well as the suppression of NLRP3 inflammasome through modulating the expression of HIF-1α and NF-κB.
'Celestial Fireworks' – Father Malachy's Miracle (1931)
Authors: Turnbull Michael T. R. B.
Published: July 2023

In his satirical novel, 'Father Malachy's Miracle' (1931), Bruce Marshall (24 June 1899–18 June 1987), the Edinburgh-born author of over forty books, presents the reader with an elderly Benedictine monk, Fr Malachy Murdoch, who has been sent from his monastery in the Scottish
Highlands to improve the singing and the manners on the altar of St Margaret's Church in Edinburgh – like many of the episodes in the novel, Marshall's characters, thinly-disguised, are based on 'real' people – in spite of the author's protestations to the contrary.

After a chance but testy meeting with a dapper Episcopalian clergyman who challenges the monk to prove that miracles can really happen. Malachy impulsively jettisons his brief and accepts the challenge, deciding to petition God to move an adjacent dancehall of ill repute (along with its clientele)
onto the windy summit of the Bass Rock, a volcanic island some twenty miles away in East Lothian. Inexplicably, the displacement immediately becomes a tourist attraction – for which Malachy is roundly admonished by a cardinal newly-arrived from Rome.
 He begins to grasp the
wider implications of what he has done. He regrets his hasty reaction and implores God to restore the seedy dancehall to its former site beside the Church of Saint Margaret of Scotland – he is left with an abiding sense of guilt and failure. Interviewed in Rome by the literary critic
Luigi Silori in 1959, Marshall confided that 'the author should not preach. This is why the clergy generally does not understand me very well – because they expect me to preach, and I don't want to do this.'
 So why has this comic masterpiece been almost forgotten? Recently,
new research into 'Father Malachy's Miracle' has revealed just how closely Marshall's deft fictionalisation imitated real life – the thin line between fact and Marshall's fiction.
Early Chorographical and Historical County Survey Writing in Wales, C.1550–1700
Authors: Deakin Quentin
Published: July 2023

Private or state interests stimulated fresh mapping and 'chorographical' regional surveys in Elizabeth I's reign. In Wales there was more concern to promote the Galfridian British History, especially in national histories, though most trends and motivations, including the desire to
produce county surveys, were shared with English counterparts. From c .1620 the chronological emphasis shifted, as High Anglican gentry authors produced county surveys concentrating on medieval aristocratic families, eschewing earlier times for lack of evidence. George Owen's interest
in natural history in The Description of Pembrokeshire (c.1603) was taken up again in the 1690s by Edward Lhwyd. Though mocked for excessive detail, specialisation and rigour signalled a more critical approach by 1700.
The Steam Locomotive, the Electric Telegraph And the Demise of Distance: Opportunities and Threats in South Wales, 1845–56
Authors: Baker Robert
Published: July 2023

The South Wales Railway was opened between Chepstow in Monmouthshire and Neyland on the Milford Haven estuary between 1850 and 1856, and in combination with the electric telegraph and ancillary railways established a transport and communications network that exercised a profound impact
on society and identity in south Wales. By the narrowing of distance through speed, this network brought many urban communities and their nearby districts closer together and was instrumental in transforming the selfimage and identity of south Wales. Conversely, while the network compressed
distance, it also forced excluded communities into relative isolation and consequently divided south Wales.
A Territorialized Memory of Colombian Conflict
Authors: Perilla Daza Oscar Rodrigo
Published: July 2023

A review of Huellas de desaparición: Los casos de Urabá, Palacio de Justicia y territorio Nukak (Traces of Disappearance: The Cases of Urabá, Palace of Justice and Nukak Territory), an exhibition held in Bogotá, Colombia, at the Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), December 10 to July 18, 2021, and in Medellín, Colombia, at the Museo de Antioquia, September 15, 2022 to January 2, 2023; the exhibition was curated by Forensic Architecture and the Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad la Convivencia y la No Repetición de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP). The exhibition used architectural tools to reconstruct three episodes of the Colombian armed conflict: the displacement of the Nukak Indigenous people, the dispossession of Campesino farmers to accommodate banana plantations for multinational companies, and the response of Colombian armed forces to the siege of Colombia’s Palace of Justice.
Metodología basada en ciencia de datos para el desarrollo de pronóstico de la generación de energía de una planta solar fotovoltaica
Authors: Yajure-Ramírez César A.
Published: July 2023

El uso de plantas solares fotovoltaicas para la generación de energía eléctrica ha ido en constante aumento en los últimos años. Muchas de estas se conectan a la red eléctrica externa, por lo que se hace necesario el pronóstico de la energía eléctrica generada por las plantas solares para coadyuvar en la gestión del operador de la red. En esta investigación se presenta una metodología basada en la ciencia de datos para desarrollar el pronóstico de energía eléctrica generada de plantas solares fotovoltaicas, utilizando, para efectos de comparación, tres técnicas diferentes: análisis de series de tiempo, regresión lineal múltiple y red neuronal artificial. Se trabajó con los datos históricos de la potencia pico, la irradiancia solar, la temperatura ambiente, la velocidad del viento y la tasa de suciedad de una planta solar fotovoltaica experimental del NREL. Para evaluar el desempeño de los modelos se utilizan las métricas RMSE, MAE y MAPE, resultando que el modelo ARIMA del análisis de series de tiempo fue el que mejor desempeño tuvo con un MAE de 1.38 kWh, RMSE de 1.40 kWh y MAPE de 6.35 %. En el análisis de correlación se determinó que la generación de energía era independiente de la tasa de suciedad, por lo que se descartó esta variable en los modelos de regresión.
Correlación para el cálculo de la fricción turbulenta en tuberías
Authors: Tolentino San Luis , González Omar
Published: July 2023

En los sistemas hidráulicos de redes de tuberías, uno de los parámetros fundamentales es el factor de fricción lambda. El factor de fricción se determina con la ecuación implícita de Colebrook-White por medios iterativos, lo cual dificulta su aplicación. En el presente trabajo se construye una correlación basada en el método recursivo para el cálculo del factor de fricción, para lo cual se empleó la ecuación de Colebrook-White. Para el cierre de la correlación se proponen dos relaciones empíricas, donde sus coeficientes y exponentes fueron calibrados en Excel 2019. Se compararon los resultados de las dos relaciones que se proponen con las relaciones de Swamee-Jain y Haaland, para incrementos recursivos, donde para la correlación lambda8 se obtuvo el error porcentual máximo del factor de fricción de 0,0000017 %, para la rugosidad relativa de 0,00001 y número de Reynolds 4000; así como, los decimales arrojaron siete dígitos decimales exactos para el factor de fricción. Para Reynolds mayores de 4000, el error porcentual disminuye. Se concluye que la correlación en función de las relaciones explícitas que se proponen satisface a la solución de la ecuación implícita de Colebrook-White.
Study for localization of fault in the electrical distribution systems
Authors: Gómez Roberto , Cabrera Diego , Robles Pablo
Published: July 2023

This article studies the location of faults in the electrical distribution system based on processing short-circuit signals. For this analysis, the simulation of cases using the CYME software is proposed, using the Wavelet transform to study the signal obtained and decomposed. The minimum spanning tree method is proposed so that fault location is optimal and reconnection time is minimal. This analysis considers the reclosers’ location in the distribution system that will serve as information repositories. In this investigation, a fault location algorithm was developed to analyse transient phenomena, achieving good precision in time frequency. Applying the proposed method, the signal is broken down into different levels, obtaining the necessary parameters to determine the distance of the fault.
Avances y estrategias para mejorar el desempeño del biodiésel en motor diésel
Authors: Riojas-González Héctor-Hugo , Bortoni-Anzures Liborio-Jesús , Martínez-Torres Juan-Julián , Ruiz Héctor A.
Published: July 2023

La demanda de diésel en vehículos pesados se incrementa cada año en el mundo. El posible uso de combustibles alternativos como el biodiésel tiene algunas desventajas como el menor valor calorífico y su mayor viscosidad, por esta razón se requiere mejorar sus propiedades, optimizando el comportamiento de la combustión en el motor y en la reducción de las emisiones. El objetivo del trabajo de investigación es explorar las diferentes mezclas que puedan ayudar a mejorar el uso del biodiésel a través de las estrategias y avances que se han generado con el propósito de beneficiar el desempeño del motor diésel. Entre las distintas estrategias de mejoramiento del biodiésel están las mezclas de distintos bioaceites (aceites vegetales, de pirólisis y usado de cocina), mezclas del biodiésel con alcohol, con hidrógeno, el biodiésel como combustible piloto, las emulsiones del biodiésel con agua y la aplicación del biodiésel con antioxidantes, nanotubos y nanopartículas. Se concluye que para poder usar actualmente el biodiésel se lo haría con la combustión dual, en donde este representaría el combustible piloto (10 % o 20 % del combustible total del motor). Con esta estrategia se puede impulsar a otros combustibles (líquidos y gaseosos) en la combustión dual, para que con el paso del tiempo se encuentre la mezcla óptima que sea la mejor opción para el motor diésel.
Impacto de la simulación Montecarlo de carga no controlada de vehículos eléctricos en la generación distribuida
Authors: Villanueva-Machado Carlos W. , Luyo Jaime E. , Rios-Villacorta Alberto
Published: July 2023

La carga no controlada de vehículos eléctricos plantea un gran desafío para los operadores de redes de distribución y los planificadores de sistemas de potencia. En lugar de focalizarse en el control de esta carga no controlada, se propone un modelo que utiliza variables de análisis de contingencias para calcular la capacidad de potencia necesaria en el sistema de potencia. Se emplea la variable de potencia no servida para evaluar la cantidad de potencia de carga no cubierta en cada barra del sistema, seguido del cálculo de la capacidad de potencia adicional requerida, utilizando un sistema fotovoltaico y de almacenamiento y otra alternativa de generación constante en el sistema de potencia IEEE de 14 barras con información sobre algunos vehículos eléctricos y la carga diaria en el sistema de potencia de Perú. Los resultados obtenidos en el sistema de potencia con generación distribuida muestran que no hay presencia de potencia no servida, corroborando el éxito de la metodología utilizada. Este modelo brinda herramientas tanto a los operadores de redes de distribución como a los planificadores de sistemas de potencia, reduciendo el impacto en el sistema de potencia de los vehículos eléctricos y aportando una metodología aplicable a otros sistemas de distribución eléctrica con cargas no controladas.
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Medical English Course Syllabuses
Authors: Liang Haiying
Published: July 2023

This article presents an analysis of the teacher-student power relationship embedded in three English for Medical Purposes (EMP) course syllabuses at a case study university. The study employs Fairclough's critical discourse analytical approach to examine the linguistic elements of the syllabuses, including verbs, modality, and quantifying adjectives. The findings reveal that the syllabuses textually represent an unequal power relationship, with the teachers holding significant authority over the students. This finding is significant as it contradicts some recommendations that ESP teaching should avoid a teacher-centred approach. By analysing the linguistic elements of the syllabuses, this study provides valuable insights into the power dynamics in EMP courses and highlights the importance of critically examining course materials for equitable and student-centred learning environments.
Students’ Awareness of Reading Strategies in ‘Communicative English Skills’ Across Three Ethiopian Universities
Authors: Jobo Meshesha Make , Ndlangamandla Sibusiso C.
Published: July 2023

The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ awareness of reading strategies in ‘Communicative English Skills’ (CES) across three Ethiopian universities. A sample of 600 first year regular students and 72 English language teachers were part of the research population. The sample of students was obtained through a random sampling technique (lottery method) and the teachers were selected using a purposive sampling technique; respectively. A descriptive quantitative research design was used for this study. Thus, the data were collected through questionnaires from students and their English teachers. Quantitative analysis of data was made using frequency and percentage. The result indicated that students of the three Ethiopian universities have very limited awareness of both cognitive and metacognitive reading strategies. This problem emanates from students’ limited exposure and poor habit of reading in English, their lack of motivation for reading texts in English and their teachers’ instructional problems of teaching reading and reading strategies. The recommendations are that students should maximize their exposure of reading texts in English and comprehensively invest their time and efforts to improve their reading habit. The English teachers should teach students the overall conceptualizations of reading and its strategies when they teach reading. The teachers should also provide students with technical and professional support and motivation to make them be cognizant of reading.
Noises and Colors: Two Untraditional Methods of Teaching ESL/ EFL Pronunciation
Authors: Gabriel Raafat
Published: July 2023

This article is based on a professional development session or presentation that the author gave in a regional TESOL affiliate conference, and it discusses the importance of teaching, why ESL/ EFL teachers should teach pronunciation, the reasons they generally give for avoiding it and how we can integrate it into our curriculum. The author sheds light on SLA, Second Language Acquisition, research especially studies that are related to connectionism or the noticeability hypothesis and their connection to teaching and practicing pronunciation in the ESL/EFL classroom. The article focuses on not only teaching segmental aspects of English pronunciation such as vowel phonemes but underscores suprasegmental features such as thought groups/chunking and word/phrase stress because they shape rhythm in English, which is key to intelligibility. The author also suggests using two effective and tested techniques in teaching pronunciation to a variety of ESL/EFL learners and provides samples of classroom activities that could be easily implemented in teaching pronunciation together with vocabulary. The article concludes with reviewing some studies conducted quite recently about one of these two suggested approaches to see how effective this approach is.
Inadequate Top-Down Information and Vowel Judgement
Authors: Zuraiq Wael M.S. , Al-Omari Moh’d A. , Abu-Joudeh Maisoun I. , Jaradat Abdullah A. , Mashaqba Bassil M. , Huneety Anas I. al , Shboul Sabri Al
Published: July 2023

The current study evaluates the accountability of Native Listeners (NLs). The study recruited speakers from a mixture of Arabic dialects and accents as one group and LAFL as another group where both groups spoke actual Arabic words with long and short vowels in contrast. A main consequence of choosing the present experimental manipulation is the outcome that NLs of Arabic had increasingly slow right recognitions in the follow-on test. The conclusion of the present experimental manipulation supports the claim that the handling of words is delayed if data accessible to NLs is incomplete. Additionally, this experimental manipulation adds to our awareness of the accountability of the NLs themselves towards LAFL. The study is expected to assist in considering the accountability of listeners in the communication barrier as explained by the inadequate top-down processing.
Stories From the Margin: Theorizing and Historicizing Testimonial Writings in Regional Indian Literature
Authors: Kottaparamban Musadhique , Ali Elsadig Hussein Fadlalla , Ahmed Fawzi Eltayeb Yousuf
Published: July 2023

Testimonio is a new genre that emerged in the 1960s in Latin America and came to be used by liberation and social movements of women, black, Adivasis, and other oppressed people. As the oppressed reasserted themselves publicly, their voices became more audible, and they began to vigorously develop their strategies for effective communication. When the oppressed find the existing genre is not appropriate to express their feelings, they start to introduce new forms of literature; it is because of the existing genre’s inadequacy of representing the oppressed in early literary forms like novels, short stories, essays, picaresque novels, lyrics, sonnets, autobiographies, and secular theatres. This paper is an attempt to engage with the ongoing debate of the testimonio literature in post-colonial Writings. Taking some works written in Indian Regional Literature, we pose the question that the marginalized and indigenous people start to reflect on their lives through literature and a new type of genre called ‘Testimonio Literature’ is slowly emerging from the margin. To extend the scope of the question, we take a few autobiographical anecdotes and narratives on such marginalized lives. We argue that marginalized lives have never been represented as they deserve, and their identity is always hidden in the wider genre of literature.
Parallelism in the Poetry of Shawqi Bzaie: A Stylistic Study
Authors: Alshamout Mahdi Awwad
Published: July 2023

this research discusses parallelism in Marthiyatul Ghubar (Arabic for Mourning of Dust) a poem by the Lebanese poet Shawqi Bazie. It also links between the structure and the repetition contained therein, as well as the intended rhetorical relationship resulting from that parallel, i.e. an attempt to link poetic formation with poetic vision. The research highlights that the Mourning of Dust contains many forms of parallelism that are not just a filler to complete the speech, but rather serve the poet's vision, ideas, and beliefs. The research also concludes that the phonetic and syntactic parallels are the most present in the poem. The poet focuses on parallelism, in particular, to say what he wants leaving the areas of interpretation open to the reader, and he thus wants a critical thinking reader, not a neutral one who does not dig into the text or interact with it. The poet wants his idea to last and for other people to believe in it.
The Treatment of Women in Selected Works by Bessie Head
Authors: Al-Ghalith Asad , Nashwan Asma , Al-Ghammaz Saif Al-Deen , Alzghoul Musa , Al-Salti Mahmoud
Published: July 2023

The role of women in Africa is one of the most notable issues in modern African literature. African novelists focus on roles held by women in the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods, alongside the effect of colonization on African women. This study is a serious attempt at providing a comprehensive analytical investigation of the role of women in Bessie Head’s selected works: When Rain Clouds Gather (1969), The Collector of Treasures, and Other Botswana Village Tales (1977). It demonstrates how traditional societies and colonizers treat African women and the influence of Head’s personal life and background on her literary works. Various studies focus on the issue of women using the feminist approach. This study, however, concentrates on women's issues using feminist and post-colonial theories.
Language in the Hypnotherapy of Depression Healing: A Neurolinguistic Study
Authors: Sutama Putu , Luardini Maria Arina , Bungai Joni , Feliks Tans
Published: July 2023

The neurolinguistic concept is similar to language function in that it expresses thought that leads to behavior, habit, and character. This study focuses on neurolinguistics to investigate the language used in hypnotherapy. Language is a therapy medium for curing depressive disorders resulting from different factors. Most of the depressive disorders treated at the Bali Brahma Kuntha Center Clinic are caused by disharmony or connection interruption between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, resulting in perception mapping errors. This mind disharmony is responsible for depressive disorder. This study employs a descriptive qualitative approach with a corpus of language or text data to cure depressive disorders. The corpus is the text used by the participants involved in the curing activities between the patients and the therapist. The data was collected using the observation method via recording and note-taking. The results reveal that language is closely related and cannot be separated from a depressive disorder. The type of hypnotherapy used to cure depressive disorder employs religious doctrines, referred to as theohypnotherapy. Overall, language or text is completed with the body, with hand touch induction especially used in the curing procedures. The hypnotherapy results indicate all the patients, based on the testimony texts, recovered from the depressive disorder.
Challenges in Translating Puns in Some Selections of Arabic Poetry Into English
Authors: Mehawesh Mohammad M. , Alshunnag Mo’tasim-Bellah , Alnawasrah Naser M. , Saadeh Noor N.
Published: July 2023

The present study investigates the challenges translators may face when translating pun expressions in some selections found in Arabic poetry into English. The study examines the strategies employed to translate puns, the choice of pun’s sense, and the perseverance of the aesthetic function of puns in English. The study analyses the translation of a sample of ten Arabic-English puns by twenty-five MA translation students grounded on Delabastita’s (1993) model, the graded salience hypothesis and back-translation method. The study has revealed that the familiarity of the pun’s overt meaning and the ignorance of its covert one constitute a major challenge for inadequately translating puns, thereby distorting the pun’s aesthetic function in the target text. Two out of Delabastita’s translation strategies are shown to be employed in the translation of the given puns, among which pun to non- pun is the most prevalent one. The study has suggested editorial techniques and related rhetorical device as a potential means for adequately rendering the respective puns.
Language Attitudes and Ethnic Language Loss in Algeria: The Case of the Chaoui Variety Among Young Users in the City of Oran
Authors: Zitouni Mimouna
Published: July 2023

This article surveys language use in the city of Oran, Algeria. It aimed to study the language attitudes of a small community of Chaoui speakers towards their language with the other languages spoken in the city, namely Standard Arabic, Algerian Arabic, and French. The results showed that though the Chaoui speech community is still emotionally attached to its ethnic language and considers it part and parcel of its identity, the Chaoui language is clearly witnessing a decline, which might eventually lead to death. The other languages, however, maintain themselves thanks to tight domain division, whereby Standard Arabic is used in official and formal situations, French, in the sciences, and Algerian Arabic, in informal interpersonal communication. The study concludes by stressing the role of schools in maintaining the country’s ethnic languages to allow them to survive outside their regions.
Designing and Implementing a Professional Programme for ICLHE Teachers: Beyond Linguistic and Communicative Competence
Authors: Gil Vicky , Dueñas Pilar Mur
Published: July 2023

English Medium Instruction (EMI) is being fostered by universities across the world to promote their internationalization with an increasing number of courses taught through English both at graduate and postgraduate level. This requires university lecturers to be offered opportunities for professional development. It is the aim of this paper to present an extended training programme -CLIC@unizar (Content  and Language Integrated Competences at the Universidad de Zaragoza)- developed at our institution which seeks to foster not only the communicative skills but also the pedagogical skills of those lecturers teaching through the medium of English or who are planning to do so. The training itinerary is grounded on previous research on EMI professional development programmes, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and methodological principles promoting the students’ active role and their development of communication and digital competences. The use of digital tools and technologies which promote online collaboration, especially HyperDocs and Google Apps for Education (mostly Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms), has been integrated in the itinerary following the SAMR Model (Puentedura, 2013). The use of these digital tools has allowed us to include multimodal ways to provide participants with input, make them interact with the material, with us and among themselves, and produce output as demonstrations of their learning. It is essential to make ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education) teachers aware of their need to adapt their methodology or adopt new ones to be effective in their teaching in an L2.
Blending Creative Approaches to English Language Learning: Shaping Critical Thinkers
Authors: Ahmed Awwad Othman Abdelaziz , AbdAlgane Mohammed
Published: July 2023

The primary objective of this study is to assess whether or not there has been an increase in the students' capacity for creative and critical thinking as a direct result of the focus that has been placed on critical thinking and communication. The following hypotheses will guide our research: (H1) that original thinking is not included in the prescribed syllabus at the graduate level; and (H2) that Paul's E&S of critical thinking can promote creative writing skills among graduate Arab learners in the Department of English & Translation at Ar Rass, Qassim University. Both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used by the researchers in this study with a cross-sectional design. Quantitative analysis was performed on a total of two hundred forty (240) research papers. Twelve instructors from the English and Translation Department at Qassim University's Ar Rass campus contributed the descriptive information that was used. A Paired Samples t-test was carried out for the purpose of investigating the hypotheses. The null hypothesis was validated using the p 0.05 threshold of significance. This entails that the curriculum for the Bachelor of Arts degree must include some forms of innovative problem solving. The second hypothesis was validated using the p0.05 and p0.01 thresholds of significance, respectively. That is to say, Paul's E&S line of thinking can be included into Research Writing in order to nurture and support students' creative thinking.
Environmental Concerns and English Language Teaching in Saudi Context: Perceptions and Practices
Authors: Hameed Ansa
Published: July 2023

The present study aims to analyze the English language teachers’ perceptions and practices in Saudi Arabia from the perspective of environmental education. The drive is firstly to record and scrutinize teachers’ perceptions regarding the incorporation of environmental education as part of ELT. Secondly, it explores whether or not they integrate environmental concerns into their teaching materials and practices. For this purpose, mixed-method research was used using a questionnaire and a focus group interview as tools of the study. The findings reveal not-up-to-par responses with respect to the attitudes of ELT teachers toward the integration of environmental education in the ELT curriculum. Moreover, their current practices also lack such focus in their classrooms though they apprehend its significance in light of contemporary environmental concerns. The study suggests that this needs to be focused on a preliminary basis by the concerned stakeholders to educate and equip the ELT teachers for the purpose.
English Language: The Last Bastion of Globalization
Authors: Dolgenko Alexander N. , Kosyreva Marina S. , Bogoslovskaya Violetta R.
Published: July 2023

The article analyzes the causes and consequences of linguistic globalization. If extra-linguistic factors were decisive for English to become a global language, linguistic factors were decisive for its preservation and development. The globalization of the English language has become possible by some of its immanent properties and is not exclusively a consequence of civilizational superiority. Therefore, the loss of global civilizational superiority will not necessarily cause the English language to lose its global status. While the coincidence of a number of extra-linguistic factors was important for English to become global, linguistic factors are crucial to maintain this status. The main risks of language globalization are critically analyzed. Despite the growing trend of deglobalization, English remains the last bastion of globalization.
Male Domination in Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip
Authors: Asri Delukman , Arafah Burhanuddin , Sahib Harlina , Abbas Herawaty
Published: July 2023

The difference between man and woman is not based on the biological aspect but on how society makes it. Women are formed by their community, where they are against discrimination. Moreover, the prejudices reveal language use, including in literary works. Monkey Grip by Helen Garner tells about a woman’s condition and feeling for a man. This study aims to elaborate on feminism and stylistics, especially in identifying Australian female authors. By using stylistic analysis, this study revealed that man character dominated the woman character in conversation and did not care about his partner’s feelings. Although the female character knew it, she was afraid to fight because of the male’s domination and her love.
Different Considerations About the Concept of Deixis
Authors: Mahmudova Shafagat Abdulla
Published: July 2023

This article discusses different considerations about the concept of deixis. According to world linguists, the deixis category is one of the categories of pragmalinguistics. Deixis plays a particularly important role in language. Deixis is the function of a linguistic unit expressed as meaning, or expressed through lexical and grammatical means. The relation of deixis to the context and speech situation indicates its relevance to pragmatics. Deixis includes the components of the speech act, the subject, the time and space localization of the fact. Appropriate verbal means are called deictic expressions or elements. Deictic elements show themselves as a style of reference. They perform a marking function and are attached to each item depending on the choice of speech moment.
Silent Women in Mozambican Writer Lília Momplé's Short Stories
Authors: Zhang Jingyi , Xavier Lola Geraldes
Published: July 2023

Lília Momplé, a Mozambican author, portrays the coexistence between black and white men and women in her works. By contesting the colonial legacy, the author contributes to the subaltern's voice. In this paper, we discuss how black characters, women in particular, in the short story collection No One Killed Suhura, are oppressed by colonialist societies. This text addresses the violence of social, racial, and sexual inequalities and the power relations established between colonizers and colonized during the twentieth century in Mozambique. We will see that some of the literary strategies used include the omniscient focus of the narrator, the relationship between history and literature, and irony.
The Pattern of Land-Grabbing Practice in Year of the Weeds Novel by Siddhartha Sarma
Authors: Setyawan Eko , Suyitno  , Wardani Nugraheni Eko , Suwandi Sarwiji
Published: July 2023

Environmental issues are increasingly worrying, some of which are in the form of deforestation and land degradation caused by the conversion of forest functions into mining. This study describes the practice of forest land-grabbing by the government in corporations with companies to be used for mining. The data source is Year of the Weeds novel by Siddhartha Sarma. Then, it was analyzed using document analysis techniques with the following stages: unitizing, sampling, recording, reducing, inferring, and narrating. The data validation used an ecocritical approach with primary and secondary references in the form of relevant research articles, books, and information in the media. The findings revealed a pattern of land grabbing practices in the form of government-company cooperation; surveying, measuring, and setting stakes; offering compensation and employment; changing the regulation on the function of the area; involvement of the apparatus and violence; land acquisition experts; and the issue of the involvement of radical groups; and arresting residents. Several developing countries, including India, Indonesia, and Brazil, engage in confiscation with the same practice pattern. This pattern of practice, if carried out continuously, will cause environmental crises.
Metadiscourse Functions in Political Speeches: A Study of Three Leaders’ National Addresses
Authors: Yoovathaworn Surakarn , Tangpijaikul Montri
Published: July 2023

This study employs discourse analysis and corpus analysis to investigate the use of reflexive metadiscourse in national addresses delivered by three national leaders, one from Thailand, one from Myanmar, and one from Pakistan, during periods of democratic reform in their respective countries. The corpus of 129,460 running words was constructed by randomly selecting fifteen addresses from each of the leaders’ national address pools. The corpus was analyzed and coded with tags to classify the metadiscourse functions employed by the speakers, and the taxonomy proposed by Ädel (2010) was adapted to serve as the framework for analysis. The search terms “I” and the inclusive “we,” “you,” “let me,” and “let us” were used in screening non-reflexive sentences. The study found that sixteen metadiscourse functions from Ädel’s (2010) taxonomy are present in the corpus, and that 314 (4.09%) of the 7,663 sentences in the corpus have reflexive metadiscourse functions. The study also found significant use of the ‘elaborating’ function, which signals the audience that the speaker is about to elaborate on the current topic and/or emphasize a particular aspect thereof. This function was previously considered an ‘other speech act labelling’ function.
“The Netherlands in Indonesia, 1945-49”: An Analysis of Argument Narrative Structure in Indonesian History Textbook
Authors: Saefudin Arif , Wasino  , Susanto  , Musadad Akhmad Arif
Published: July 2023

History textbooks influence students' interpretations through the structure of arguments and the meanings they contain. This article attempts to answer the question, what is the narrative structure of argument and meaning in the textbook? This article explores narrative arguments using Toulmin's model framework and the use of lexicogrammatical features to detect diction and word choice to identify the contrasting language in textbooks. We explore the Indonesian history textbook in senior high school class XI (eleven). The material analysed is the confrontation between the Netherlands and Indonesia from 1945-49. The study found that the textbook narrative argument identifies the claim that the early conditions of Indonesian independence were fraught with obstacles. The textbook claims that the arrival of the Allies and the Netherlands caused resistance, so the Indonesian struggle occurred in two ways: war and diplomacy. Indonesian history textbooks have become a tool of persuasion to benefit students' national identity formation. Using lexicogrammatical features also reinforces the claim that the Netherlands is on the "bad" side and Indonesia is on the "good" side. Thus, the narrative argument validates the official state-sanctioned history of the Netherlands as a colonialist state and exhibits antagonistic behaviour toward the Indonesian people's decision for independence.
University Instructors’ Attitude Towards Writing Academic Articles in English for Publication: Voices From Indonesia
Authors: Ginting Pirman , Lestari Eka , Hasnah Yenni
Published: July 2023

Grasping varying purposes of English in scientific publications has become a critical point for many scholars (Cargill & Burgess, 2017). The present study examines the attitudes of Indonesian university teachers towards writing scholarly works in English for publication. It also explored whether teachers' perceptions varied based on gender and specific areas of expertise (English and non-English). Applying the convenience sampling technique, this research included 50 lecturers from public and private institutions in North Sumatra, Indonesia, separated into EFL and non-EFL instructors. Additionally, the participants were split into male and female subgroups. A survey method was utilized to collect the data, and SPSS version 23.0 was adopted to analyze the data. The findings demonstrated that the instructors had a favorable outlook on publishing scholarly works in English. Although there were no statistically substantial distinctions in responses between female and male lecturers or English and non-English lecturers, gender and their area of expertise in education influenced their views on the necessity of authoring academic papers in English for publication. Given that attitude strongly influences whether or not a person will change their behaviour, the degree to which a person has a positive attitude about writing may have a bearing on how effectively they write. Therefore, academics' constructive stances in composing journal articles must be bolstered. Such ideals can be accomplished through hands-on activities such as actual writing practices and participation in academic writing seminars and workshops.
Investigating the Implementation of Multimodality and Spherical Video-Based Immersive Virtual Reality in the Indonesian Language for Foreign Speakers’ Learning Materials
Authors: Rahmanu I Wayan Eka Dian , Adnyana Ida Bagus Artha , Laksana I Putu Yoga , Sutarma I Gusti Putu , Somawati Ni Putu , Nugroho I Made Riyan Adi
Published: July 2023

Experts have developed multimodality and spherical video-based immersive virtual reality (SV-IVR) for language learning to escalate learners’ cognition. However, neither experts nor teachers have explored and optimised the use of multimodality and SV-IVR in the Indonesian Language for Foreign Speakers (BIPA) learning materials. This study investigates foreign learners’ perception of multimodality and SV-IVR immersion in BIPA programme. The total sample involved in this study was 20 people from Europe, Asia, and the US. The results reveal that multimodality including utilisation of text, audio, video, and images contributed to the foreign learners’ motivation and eagerness to learn the Indonesian language. Although the foreign students argued that the combination of text, audio, video, and images elevates foreign learners’ eagerness to study the Indonesian language, the SV-IVR implementation indicated no significant effect on the foreign students’ eagerness. Regarding the combination of multimodality and SV-IVR, the students indicated that the simultaneous use of multimodality and SV-IVR could increase their motivation to learn the Indonesian language.
Theater I La Galigo by Director Robert Wilson: A Linguistic Study
Authors: Adinda  , Rahman Fathu , Akhmar Andi Muhammad , Lewa Inriati
Published: July 2023

The literary work I La Galigo is an ancient book in the form of poetry that contains the myth of the creation of the Buginese civilization which was crowned by UNESCO as World Memory. Literary reading of I La Galigo is done while singing Laoang or Selleang songs. In fact, its existence is increasingly disappearing in the life of the Buginese Society today. I La Galigo then returned and attracted international attention after director Robert Wilson presented it in the form of a play written by Rhoda Grauer. By presenting a story about the process of the formation of the world as well as the long and spiritual journey of Sawerigading, the theater I La Galigo directed by Robert Wilson is considered capable of giving a stronger impression to the audience. This paper aims to 1) explore the theater of I La Galigo by Robert Wilson from the study of Linguistics, and 2) reveal the change of literary works of I La Galigo into theater performances and the process of transferring written literary works called I La Galigo into script theater performances. This study uses a qualitative method with data obtained from the literature study. It focuses on looking at the adaptation in the literary work of I La Galigo into a theatrical performance and the process of changing a written literary work, namely I La Galigo into a script for a theatrical performance by using dramaturgy theory and discourse transfer method.
A Study on WAR Metaphors in the Reports on the Reform and Opening-Up Policy in China
Authors: Gao Jinlin
Published: July 2023

Based on the BCC (Beijing Language and Culture University Corpus Center) corpus, an analysis on the WAR metaphors in the reports on the Reform and Opening-up Policy in China showed that the potential metaphor in the report is THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REFORM AND OPENING-UP AS WAR, which is supported by such sub-metaphors as PLACES WHERE POLICIES ARE IMPLEMENTED AS BATTLEFIELDS; POLICIES OR THEORIES AS WEAPONS; IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICIES AS MILITARY ACTION; DIFFICULTIES AND RISKS AS ENEMIES. War metaphors highlight the conflicts, risks and strategies in the process, and arouse the sense of emergency, alertness and strategy. The resonance distribution of the Source domain elements partially reflected the highlights of the reports. Battlefields highlight the universality of conflicts and arouse the sense of risk,alertness and emergency. Participants motivate the readers to learn from the developed areas to devote to the enterprise of Reform and Opening-up.