English for General Academic Purpose (EGAP) is crucial for cultivating high-quality innovative talents, focusing on developing their practical competence in academic English for communication, research and professional practice. With the in-depth integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into education, traditional EGAP teaching faces challenges like insufficient interaction and inefficient personalized guidance. Thus, human-computer collaborative teaching becomes an inevitable direction for EGAP reform. Based on previous research deficiencies and the latest AIGC development, this study optimizes the “one-core, three-orders and seven-synergies” model (grounded in PBL and supported by AIGC), integrating strengths of teachers, AI systems and students to expand EGAP teaching boundaries. Supplemented with new empirical data and cases, it verifies the upgraded model’s effectiveness, providing targeted theoretical and practical support for AI-EGAP integration and promoting EGAP teaching quality.

Fictionalisation of women’s oppression shows writers’ commitment at different times to keep readers abreast with trending issues which are seemingly despicable to the society. This paper draws attention away from representations on the overburdened issue of inter-gender oppression; of men and women, to intra-gender oppression among women. It aims to examine the latter, with particular focus on how it is enabled in a relationship between adults and children. It considers this topic as an important literary theme that is yet to be given significant scholarship attention. Its significance rests on the fresh perspectives it offers and helps to expand on the overall issue of oppression that has continued to plague the society. It uses Ted Elemeforo’s Child of Destiny to provide credible evidence. The qualitative analysis procedure is employed, with the support of the intersectionality theory relating to feminism, and Marxism, to explain how oppression thrives in the society despite consistent opposition. The findings affirm that women oppress and exploit members of their sex. This happens mostly in unequal social relations like, between adults and underprivileged children as demonstrated in the meeting between the text’s female characters: Madam Lizzy and Ebika. It shows that this practice is aided by salient social factors like class, age, sex among others, which inevitably stand in the way of eradicating oppression. The paper, thus, concludes that oppression has to be seen as a complex phenomenon requiring multifaced approach to be eliminated.

This study examines the international city image communication strategy of Yiwu through the lens of “using commerce as media”, an emerging yet underexplored approach in city branding research. Focusing on ten short videos from the 2025 Wanguo Chuangfu Chao series produced by the Yiwu Belt and Road International Communication Center, the study adopts qualitative content analysis to investigate how commercial practices, entrepreneurial narratives, and value-oriented storytelling jointly construct Yiwu’s global image. The findings reveal that Yiwu’s communication strategy successfully projects a multidimensional city image as (1) a hyper-efficient global trade hub, (2) a culturally inclusive and integrated cosmopolitan community, and (3) an aspirational platform for entrepreneurial success. This is achieved through three key strategies: a glocal storytelling framework that integrates personal narratives with macro-level positioning, the strategic use of foreign entrepreneurs as credible narrators, and value-forward communication linking commerce to global themes such as sustainability and inclusivity. The study contributes to the literature by addressing the gap in self-constructed city image research and advancing the conceptualization of commerce-as-media as a distinct communication paradigm. It also offers practical implications for cities seeking to enhance their international visibility through innovative and culturally resonant communication strategies.

In this work, effort has made to identify images related to the sounds made by animals and birds using a Vocal Circle Technique. This technique has already been used successfully, to derive sounds of Indus Valley Scripts and Oracle Bone script. Thus establishing the existence of healthy relationship between- (1) image, (2) image identifier / differentiator and (3) sound generated by movement of tongue delineating image differentiator. In different vernaculars, an image is related to different varieties of sounds, based on the image differentiator selected in the vernacular.

The north –east region of Nigeria is considered educationally less advantage region with seventy percent of its school children considered out of school due to poverty .The remaining thirty percent though in school are still grappling with literacy in English language , The students performance and competence in the English language is far from optimum thus a growing concern not just to the students , parents but policy makers and the government as well . It is also a known fact that the region is mainly agrarian state and thus a lot of people from different ethnicity converge to eke a living and by so doing a variety of English language domesticated within the social realities of the state is spoken and accepted as the unofficial lingua franca. This variety of Nigerian English is not the acceptable mode of instruction in a formal setting like the classroom. Thus this research examines the impact of Nigerian English on the students’ performance and competence in the use of English language. To achieve this, respondents were drawn from five tertiary institutions in the region, questionnaires were distributed and analysed. It was discovered that there is the existence of a variety of Nigerian English spoken both in informal setting s as well as used in the classroom. The research recommends a synergy between the varieties of the English language as the students tend to understand concepts when presented in Nigerian English. There is also a call for standardization the Nigerian English.

This paper will provide a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) of the ways in which both Iran and Israel used Visual and Linguistic Weaponization Strategies to engage each other throughout the Digital Conflict in 2025 and 2024. A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis will be conducted in order to understand how both sides of the conflict were able to utilize the combination of Visual Imagery, Textual Narratives, and Symbolic Representations to create Disinformation, Manipulate Public Perception, and to further Strategic Communication Objectives. Utilizing theoretical constructs from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Multimodal Discourse Analysis, and Visual Rhetoric; this research will illustrate the various types of Visual and Linguistic manipulation that took place through Official State Media Channels, Social Media Platforms, and Strategic Communication Outlets. The results will indicate that both Iranian and Israeli Actors were able to successfully deploy Sophisticated Multimodal Disinformation Campaigns that included Mislabeled Images, Out-Of-Context Video Footage, Fabricated Claims, and Emotionally Charged Visual Rhetoric. These findings will contribute to the ever-growing body of literature on Information Warfare in the Digital Age and will also demonstrate the Urgent Need for Developing Enhanced Media Literacy Frameworks capable of Addressing the Complex Semiotic Landscape of Contemporary Conflict Zones.