This article aims to analyze the use of musical intelligence (Howard Gardner) as a tool to facilitate individuals’ pronunciation. A study with Emirati participants who have Arabic as L1 has been conducted to see if participants in the experimental group, who were trained in English pronunciation through music, achieve greater outcomes than those in the control group, who were trained through a more traditional way (by listening and repeating exactly the same content as the experimental group). The results will be compared to our previous studies also related to Multiple Intelligences.

Thomas Stearns Eliot's The Waste Land is a mysterious enigmatic text in both its form and content which still invites many critics and reviewers to an infinite range of interpretations finding in it a striking departure from nineteenth century poetry and raising the flag of modernism and postmodernism. Its appearance in 1922 started a critical debate among critics who found it hard to place both because of the poet's complex artistic strategies and because of the poem's kaleidoscopic orchestrated structure. From this perspective, the present paper is mainly concerned with the poem’s kaleidoscopic structure highlighting the text's intertextuality, heterogeneity and multiculturalism. It seeks to re-read and investigate the poem from the perspective of Edward Said's Postcolonial theory proving that the poem’s encyclopedic structure achieves for the poet a form of Neo-Colonialism where the poet’s intellectual domination replaces the territorial one. The study concludes by showing that The Waste Land is an early example of postmodernism where the text becomes the poet’s Neo-empire.

Humor is one of the main sources of entertainment in the media, such as YouTube. Mrnigelng is a comedian who uses Uncle Roger’s persona to give criticism to western cooks that try to make Asian dishes humorously in YouTube. This study aims to examine the verbal humor found in Mrnigelng video entitled “Uncle Roger DISGUSTED by this Egg Fried Rice Video (BBC Food)”. By employing Shades verbal humor classifications and Attardo General Theory of Verbal Humor, this study analyzes the types of verbal humor used in the object and how they are generated. The result of this study shows that there are eight types of verbal humor found in the object: Pun, Riddle, Joke, Satire, Farce, Sarcasm, Tall Tale, and Wit. Based on the result, it can be seen that Nigel primarily uses Satire to tease an English cook and to prevent his jokes from being morally unacceptable.

The situation of crises in Zamfara state, North-west Nigeria has recently reached quite unprecedented heights so much so that hardly a day passes without horrible pictures and heartbroken details of excessive destruction and senseless killings on the television screen, radio broadcasting, newspapers, and magazine. Security in Zamfara state has become a major problem in recent times. Cases of abduction, kidnapping, terrorism, senseless killings, maiming, nihilism, burgeoning restlessness, banditry, and other others, have been undoubtedly rampant. Therefore, Zamfara citizens, despite the state apparatus to ensure the safety and protection of lives and property, are incessantly living in perpetual fear and worry. It is against this backdrop that the study tends to proffers other means of trying to resolve the scenario of crises and banditry through the sociology of language and culture as a panacea to incessant crises and banditry in Zamfara state, Nigeria. The objective of the study is, among other things, reasonably available data to identify how language and culture would lead to the achievement of peacebuilding across the state. The researcher employed the use of questionnaires, oral interviews, and formal interactions to elicit information from the inhabitants of the study areas where there are records of banditry and conflicts activities are extensive. The work employed the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which holds that our thoughts are shaped by our native language and that speakers of different languages, therefore, think differently as its theoretical Framework. The study discovered among other things that the application of language and culture are stronger weapons than the arms and ammunition which are being employed by the federal government of Nigeria in attempting to resolve many crises in Zamfara state.

This research work has investigated the importance of linguistic morphology in the construction of new lexemes and grammatically conditioned words on the first hand and the way both derivational and inflectional morphemes function to carry and impart compositional meaning in text on the other. Premised on the objective of raising more awareness on the significance of morphological research, this paper has applied both the quantitative and qualitative analysis methods to the historic speech “I Have a Dream” by the African American civil rights figurehead Martin Luther King Jr. The scientific roadmap thus carved has led its process through the identification, labelling and numbering of the distinctive derivational (50 /40%) and inflectional (75 / 60%) morphemes. A furthering of the quantitative input has displayed an outstanding use of nominalisations with nouns derived from adjectives 17 [13.6%] and from verbs 12 [9.6%] with bound morphemes such as “ity”, “ice”, “ation”, “tion”, “or”, and “dom”. On the inflectional part, the prevailing use of regular and irregular plural number imparting morphemes (47 / 37.6%) together with tense inflections (16 / 12.8%) pair up to confirm, in a qualitative analytical approach, the ideological perspective of the speaker to include the largest anonymous members of the African American community as the intended beneficiaries of his unquenchable soft but vibrant battle for freedom. The use of tense indicating morphemes has revealed the presence of a threefold tense progression from the past tense (simple past and past perfect) to the simple present and then to the future. The crosscheck of the semantics of such morphemic operations has uncovered the perspective of Martin Luther King Jr for the logical representation of the sufferings of the Black community and liberation struggles in the past, the need to keep the battle going in the present time with the conviction of brighter days in the future.

I propose an analysis on the acquisition of the alveolar trill /r/ by Spanish-speaking children as a heritage language. I aim to determine to what extent the acquisition of the trill by these speakers may differ from the same process in monolingual children. To that end, I will recruit twenty children Spanish-English bilingual heritage speakers (3-6 years of age), and twenty monolingual children of the same age who have never been exposed to another language. To collect the data, I will schedule brief Zoom meetings with the parents of the participants, and I will ask them to connect with the children to play a quick game (a picture-naming task). I will carefully listen to the recordings and examine the participant’s accuracy to produce the acoustic features of the Spanish trill. I will analyze all the tokens acoustically using PRAAT (Boersma & Weenink, 2017). The research hopes to be a contribution in the field of phonological acquisition of Spanish in bilingual settings, and to fill a gap in the literature regarding the development of the trill by heritage speakers.

Vocabulary has been playing an important role in language learning. However, to most students in China, vocabulary is the main problem they have met when they learn English. In order to improve their vocabulary learning skills, a study is needed to find out definitions and classifications of English learning strategies used by college students in Changzhi University. Further more, students’ different employment of language learning strategies and the related results are essential to be explored. This thesis aims to investigate the vocabulary learning strategies used by non-English majors by means of questionnaires. The subjects are 238 non-English majors from Changzhi University. Both similarities and differences of application of language learning strategies are explored. The correlation between vocabulary learning strategies and test scores is conducted as well. Further more, some suggestions for lexical learning will be put forward.

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This paper explores the curriculum space in secondary general education in the Republic of Benin, in reference to information and communication technologies(ICT) and sexuality. Taking the curriculum space, as described in O’Hair, Mc Laughlin and Reitzug (2000), as the theoretical framework, this study relies on both qualitative and quantitative data from 137 high school graduates who have enrolled in teacher training at ENS in Porto-Novo in 2019. The main concern in this research is to track their learning processes of the knowledge and skills in ICT and sexuality, domains in which Benin secondary general education has remained almost silent until recently. The findings reveal that the large majority of participants (72%) have acquired diverse knowlegde and skills in ICT and 32% in sexuality, often in the margin of the official school programmes. Thus, the two domains belong to the null curriculum, and curriculum leadership suggests that teachers take lessons from these experiences to inform their practices in the official domain.

Compulsory motor insurance coverage appears to be an imperative. The objective of this research is to publicize this obligation in order to bring about a change in the behavior of the Beninese. To achieve this, a quantitative survey and two qualitative surveys were conducted. The results show that Beninese people are generally unaware of this compulsory guarantee, particularly drivers or car owners who do not know the content of this guarantee. The campaigns conducted by the insurance companies still do not take into account the expectations of the targets. The injunctive messages transmitted do not often receive favorable feedback, due to the lack of proposals integrating the aspirations of car owners. Media communication and digital communication represent two important levers of large-scale dissemination that must be resized for the success of the campaign.

This article aims at the description and the contrastive analysis of suffixation, part of the affixal derivation, of Biali and German. Indeed, it describes two types of suffixation in Biali, namely: nominal suffixation and verbal suffixation. On the German side, it identifies and describes four types of suffixation which are the nominal, verbal, adjectival and adverbial suffixations. From the contrastive analysis of these different types of Biali and German suffixation, it notes that they have nominal and verbal suffixations in common. It points out that their differences are noticeable at the level of adjectival and adverbial suffixations, because these are only found in German and not in Biali.

This paper is a critical analysis of The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison, a collection of poems by Jack Mapanje. It aims at demonstrating how new voices in politics are often compelled to silence. It explores the factors that make the hope of the masses dissipate to make room for a great despair in the heart of both the masses and the political opponents and activists who in our case here are writers. To conduct this work, we have based our analysis on new historicism and post-colonial criticism using the qualitative research method. The results of our findings reveal that some people get involved in politics either directly or indirectly with the hope of bringing about changes in the management of their country so as to put it on the path of sustainable development. Unfortunately, the powerholders resort to all the possible means to show resistance through all possible means to silence and discourage them. This state of affairs constitutes a hindrance to a true development and a good political leadership in Africa where powerholders do not tolerate opposition at all.