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Contents Volume VI Issue II (Spring 2021)

Investigating Integration of Writing Skills in Grade VIII English PTBB Textbook
Abstract:	The present study aimed to explore the integration of writing skills competency in the Grade VIII English textbook prescribed by the Punjab textbook board. A content analysis was carried out in the backdrop of a checklist based on the competencies and students' learning outcomes provided in the latest English National Curriculum (2006), Pakistan. The writing competency was proposed to improve l ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Sana Baig : Lecturer, Department of TESOL, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Fareeha Javed : Assistant Professor, Head of TESOL Department, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. 3-Fasiha Altaf : PhD Scholar, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Writing Skills, National English Curriculum, Competency, Student Learning Outcomes, Grade VIII and English Textbook
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).01	Details Download
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The Organization of Power in Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Foucauldian Reading
Abstract:	The present study aims to highlight the role of power in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness through the ideas given by Michel Foucault. Roy discusses various power centers present in contemporary Indian society, which institutionalize the suppression faced by various characters in the novel on the basis of their caste, religion, social class, or political affiliations. The study i ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Raheela Hameed Laghari : Research Scholar, Department of English Literature, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Muhammad Asif Khan : Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. 3-Aamer Shaheen : Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, GC University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Foucault, Hierarchy, Power, Resistance, Suppression
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).02	Details Download
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Memory for Text: The Relationship between Form and Meaning
Abstract:	A linguistic sign, according to Saussure (1966), is a combination of a signifier (form) and a signified (meaning). Form without meaning is just half of the sign. Although in some situations surface forms are excellently retained in memory over time, in most circumstances, explicit long term memory for the surface details or memory for forms of long-past linguistic events is poor or non-existent ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Amjad Saleem : Assistant Professor, Department of English & Applied Linguistics, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan. 2-Muhammad Umer : Assistant Professor, Department of English, Islamia College University Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Form, Meaning, Memory, Memorization, Text, Processing
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).03	Details Download
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Page Nos:	24-29
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Schooling the Souls of the Savages: Theme of Negative Stereotyping in Native American Play
Abstract:	The present article deals with the theme of negative stereotyping in the backdrop of identity and representation in Native American drama with special reference to Scott Momaday's The Indolent Boys, The Moon in Two Windows, and Howe & Gordon's Indian Radio Days. By assuming an explicit postcolonial angle, these plays consciously subvert the project of negative stereotyping of the natives by emp ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Asma Aftab : Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Sadia Akram : Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Eurocentrism, Negative Stereotyping, Native American Plays, Savages
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).04	Details Download
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Exploring Racism, and Anxieties of Identity in Aslam's Selected Work
Abstract:	The question of identity and sense of displacement is always fundamental for culturally displaced people. The objective of the Diaspora writings is to explore the construction of new identities in new cultural places and the painful experiences of migration. The present study aims to explore the issue of identity and racism in selected fictional works, Season of the Rainbirds (1993) and Maps fo ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Sameen Nisar : Scholar, Department of English, The Women University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Mamona Yasmin Khan : Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Women University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. 3-Aqsa Choudhry : Research Scholar, Department of English, The Women University Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Ambiguous, Identity, Immigrants, Marginalization, Minorities, Racism, Stereotypical Attitude
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).05	Details Download
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Page Nos:	37-47
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Stereotypical Hijab, Oppressive Forces and Postcolonial Muslim Women: A Critical Analysis of Hijabistan by Sabyn Javeri
Abstract:	This research highlights the use of the word Hijab and the position of Muslim women in Sabyn Javeri's Hijabistan. This study is significant as Hijab is considered important, sacred and respectful in many religions of the world but is portrayed as a sign of stigma and oppression when associated with Muslim women. It is assumed that Muslim women used to wear Hijab to hide their negative activitie ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Sanniya Sara Batool : Lecturer, Department of English, Riphah International University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Nafees Parvez : Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. 3-Amna Farooq : Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Hijabistan, Hijab, Ideology, Muslim Women, Oppression, Scar, Sabyn Javeri
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).06	Details Download
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Page Nos:	48-55
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The Theatre of Historical Revision: An Analysis of the Native American Drama Tradition
Abstract:	We attempt to analyse the form and content of major Native American plays to discuss their relationship with the traditional English drama and its content. By looking at plays of key Native American playwrights, we show that the Native American tradition goes against the English tradition of drama in its form by challenging the unities of time and place and characterization. It also brings in ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Amer Akhtar : HoD, Department of English, Foundation University Islamabad, Pakistan. 2-Rida Rehman : Department of English, Foundation University Islamabad, Pakistan. 3-Neelum Almas : Assistant Professor, Department of English, Foundation University Islamabad, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Native American, Genocide, Drama, Historical Revision
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).07	Details Download
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Page Nos:	56-62
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Transitivity Analysis of Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908: A Corpus-Based Study
Abstract:	The language of law is complex and needs to be investigated to facilitate its easy understanding. The present study addresses this need by analyzing a mini-corpus comprising two short texts taken from Pakistan's Code of Civil Procedure 1908 and the U.K.'s Civil Procedure Rules 1998 with Halliday's ideational metafunction, which is suited for analyzing procedural texts (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2 ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Saadat Hasan Akhtar Usmani : PhD Scholar, Department of English, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. 2-Ayaz Afsar : Vice President Academics, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Corpus Analysis, Ideational Metafunction, Legal Language, Legislative Drafting, Linguistic Complexity, Systemic Functional Linguistics
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).08	Details Download
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Page Nos:	63-77
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Quest for Body and Voice: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Shamsie's Broken Verses
Abstract:	In contemporary and postmodern literary discourses, feminism has introduced a paradigm change in the sex debates. The plan of feminist critical discourse analysis is to explore different discourses from a feminist viewpoint. The planned study conforms to this field of feminist discourse that will attempt to analyze Kamila Shamsie's selected work, Broken Verses. She, being a famous feminist, has ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Mashhood Anjum : Lecturer in English, Government College University Faisalabad, Layyah Campus, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Iftikhar Baig : Associate Professor, Qurtaba University of Sciences and Technology, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan. 3-Abdul Hameed : Assistant Professor, Qurtaba University of Sciences and Technology, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Feminism, Patriarchy, Gender, Discourse, CDA, FCDA, Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).09	Details Download
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Page Nos:	78-84
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Institutional Violence and Madness in Bond's Subversive Comedy The Sea
Abstract:	This paper analyses Edward Bond's play The Sea as a subversive comedy. The existing sociopolitical hegemonies in the British culture are ridiculed. Bond foregrounds the unjust automatized social structures that produce multiple types of madness that leads to violence. Gradually, the social beings become habitual of their madness-based identity. They develop an equation to cope with the existing ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Muhammad Umer Azim : Assistant Professor of English, Government Graduate College Township, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Muhammad Saleem : Professor of English, Government Graduate College Township, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. 3-Nargis Saleem : Lecturer, Department of English, Riphah International University, Lahore Campus, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	'Aggro-effects', Alienation, Dehumanization, Rational Theatre
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).10	Details Download
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Page Nos:	85-93
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Postmodern Absurdist Critique of Julian Barnes's The Only Story....
Abstract:	This research paper endeavors to examine the postmodern absurdism as a literary sub genre in postmodern fiction. It delves deep into the concept of absurdism by concentrating upon the characteristics that distinguish it as a postmodern sub genre. Through the analysis of the postmodern novel, The Only Story (2018), this research paper illustrates how the characteristics of absurdism haven impact up ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Arshad Nawaz: Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Sub-Campus Hafizabad, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Muhammad Ijaz: Visiting Lecturer, Department of English Literature, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. 3-Khalid Mehmood Anjum: Lecturer, Department of English, Riphah International University Islamabad, Sub-Campus Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Postmodern Absurdism, Julian Barnes, The Absurd, The Only Story
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).11	Details Download
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Page Nos:	94-100
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Subverting the Politics of Discourse in Gerald Vizenor's Heirs of Columbus
Abstract:	Vizenor is an illustrious novelist whose works, especially The Heirs of Columbus, dwells upon some of the substantial and significant issues facing the modern-day Native American nationals of America and Canada as the majority of the Native American tribes straddle along the borders between the two countries. Victor believes in Saidian terms that the white Euro-American colonizers, after making in ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Nasir Iqbal: Lecturer in English, Government Guru Nanak Postgraduate College, Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Umar Hayat: Lecturer in English, Government Guru Nanak Postgraduate College, Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan. 3-Muhammad Asif Nadeem: Lecturer in English, Superior College, Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	TheHeirsofColumbus,Indigenous,Anthropological
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).12	Details Download
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Page Nos:	101-109
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Effects of Short Messaging Services' Language on the Academic Writing Skills of Graduate Learners at University Level
Abstract:	Short messaging service (SMS) language, text speak or text language is used with internet-based communication such as text messaging or e-mail and instant messaging. The current study aims at determining the reasons for short messaging service (SMS) language usage and its effects on the academic writing of the learners. Eighty (40 male and 40 female) learners and ten teachers were purposive a sele ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Shahid Nawaz: Assistant Professor, Department of English Linguistics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan 2-Rasheed Ahmed: Visiting Lecturer, Department of English Literature, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. 3-Amna Mushtaq: PhD Scholar, Department of English Linguistics, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Academic Writing, SMS (Texting), Textspeak, Standard English, Writing Skills
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).13	Details Download
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Page Nos:	110-117
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Depiction of Pakistani Culture through Code-Mixing: Critical Examination of the Novel Holy Woman by Qaisra Shahraz
Abstract:	Code mixing is a process that is unconscious which helps to establish communication in a multilingual group. The study in question examines the use of code-mixing throughout the book "The Holy Woman"by "Qaisra Shahraz." The study examines the socioeconomic and cultural lives that are in Sindh and Karachi. The marriage ceremony was analyzed using words like amazing Rishta three talaqs sister's Meha ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Sana Sardar: Lecturer, Department of English, Government Degree College for Girls, Takht Bhai, Mardan, KP, Pakistan. 2-Muhammad Zawar Khan: Department of English, Government Post Graduate College Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan. 3-Mujtaba Khan: Lecturer, Department of English, University of Swabi, KP, Pakistan.
Keywords:	Code-Mixing, Borrowing, English Language, Urdu Language
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).14	Details Download
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Page Nos:	118-129
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Freud's Theory of Human Nature and Instincts in Chuck Palahniuk's Novel Fight Club
Abstract:	The 1996 novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk demonstrates a strong basis in psychoanalytical theory. The analysis of this novel shows that Freudian concepts of human nature and the basic instincts of Ero and Thanatos explain the reason behind the struggle of nature and nurture. This representation is evident in the setting, in the plot, and in the major characters of the novel. Within this framewo ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Faiz Ullah: Lecturer, Islamia College Peshawar, KP, Pakistan 2-Mujtaba Khan: †Lecturer, Department of English, University of Swabi, Swabi, KP, Pakistan. 3-Rehmat Ali Yousaf Zai: Student of PhD TESOL, School of Educational Studies, University Science Malaysia (USM-Main Campus) Malaysia
Keywords:	Psychoanalysis, Nature, Nurture, Instincts, Ero, Thanatos
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).15	Details Download
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Page Nos:	130 – 139
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The Impact of Task-Based Language Instruction on Oral Communication Development in ESL Students
Abstract:	In this study, the aim of the investigation was to find the impact of using task-based teaching method son the oral communication skills of ESL students at the undergraduate level. The investigation was carried out in a university at the tertiary level by checking the influence of task-based language teaching on 22 ESL students. After looking at the results obtained in the study, it is found that ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Urooj Fatima: Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Riphah International University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. 2-Sofia Anwer: Research Assistant, Riphah International University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. 3-Talha Shoaib: Research Assistant, Riphah International University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
Keywords:	ESL, Oral Communication, EFL, Task-Based Approach
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).16	Details Download
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Page Nos:	140-152
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Proverbs: An Analysis of Translation from Urdu to English
Abstract:	The translation of proverbs, which has always been a difficult area, is always emerged in culture because of its relevance to folklore, and hence translators face problems at the lexical, syntactical, or cultural level. Keeping in view this fact, the present study aimed to analyze Urdu proverbs and their equivalence in English, i.e., their translated version. For this purpose, as a source of data, ...Read More - View Fulltext
Author/s:	1-Mujtaba khan : Lecturer in English, University of Swabi, KP, Pakistan. 2-Faiz Ullah: Lecturer in Islamia College Peshawar, KP, Pakistan 3-Rehmat Ali Yousaf Zai: Ph.D. scholar, TESOL, School of Educational Studies, University Science Malaysia (USM-Main Campus) Malaysia
Keywords:	Translation, Proverb, Equivalent, English, Persian, SL/TL
DOI Number:	10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).17	Details Download
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