IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature

1-6

Authors: RICHA BIJALWAN

Diasporic writers exhibit the sense of belongingness in their writings since whenever a person migrates to another country or place, first thing he faces that is geographical conditions which are generally different from his/her own coutnry or native place. Then come the problems of language, culture, traditions, living style and sensibility which differ from his/her own soicety. But these are not the only tough things which one has to face or adjust in another environment but one has also to adjust with the local political milieu of the the new land. Apart from these things in many coutnries the issue of racial discrimination also exists which makes the assimilation of an immigrant tougher in other lands. In addition to it the feeling of nostalgia and sense of belongingness also haunt the mind of an immigrant. The present paper focuses this sense of belongingness and identity criss in the writings of diasporic writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee and Rohinton Mistry.

15-18

Authors: JAEL JEBAKANI MONICA & STEPHEN JEBANESAN

The paper is an attempt to analyses the importance of integration of technology and language learning and how computers are helpful for learners. The paper elaborates on how language learning is made easy for the new generation learners. The paper enlights on the advantages in teaching and learning methods in TILL and CALL concepts. The paper throws light on the concept of fearless and autonomous learning

23-28

Authors: R. GEETHA & STEPHEN JABENESAN

The main focus of this research paper is to concentrate on the form and function of phrasal verb in written and spoken English. Few aspects were added to language to enrich its vocabulary i.e. Phrasal verb, idioms and phrases. This study attempts to reveal the difficulties students endure while learning phrasal verb and misinterpretation of phrasal verb in writing. 120 first year engineering students were asked to take a comprehension test with 50 phrasal verbs (make sentence on their own) and their answers were taken as the principle for the researcher to analysis the common problems encounters in phrasal verbin the writing of Engineering students. 60 students of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Communication skills lab were used for speaking (presentation). English proficiency level of all the students was intermediate.

35-42

Authors: AMAL RIYADH KITISHAT & KHAWLA AL-OMAR

This study investigates the effect of film production and cinema on improving the understanding of students' academic achievement of department of English language and literature in their literary courses in general and novel and drama in particular. The population are selected from the third year level of the students in department of English language and literature in Ajloun university college at Al-Balqa' Applied university who were enrolled in (Novel) and (Drama) in the second semester of the academic year 2014/2015. The sample selected of the study consisted of (25) students. They were distributed in to two experimental groups: the first which was considered as the control group , the students before seeing any movie and depended mainly on the information understand from the literary texts; the second group consists of the students after seeing a film production of the novel or the play. Both groups are asked to write a report about specific topic in the novel. The study proved that students who received on line facilities and saw the film had recognizable gains in their analysis of the novel drama and revealed a greater understanding than those who depended only on literary texts. In light of these findings, the study recommended that on-line teaching in general and film watching supplement the teaching of literary courses for learners of English as a second language

49-52

Authors: DEBASISH SARKAR

The diseases which are liable to create epidemic in colonial Bengal, cholera takes the formidable position. This contagious disease and effects of epidemic to the soldiers creates a bar to the company to implement a well-decorated administrative system. Water pollution was the key reason for braking out cholera epidemic. It became worse due to the lake of mass-awareness and inability to reduce water pollution. Naturally people started worshiping Ola-Bibi or Ola-Chandi to protect the mselves or to get rid of themselves from this fatal disease. At last the British government managed pure water as a result the paws of epidemic gradually weaken. The contemporary Bengali literature tried to portray the condition of colonial Bengal and the reaction of the mass.

59-64

Authors: BIDISHA MUNSHI

William Shakespeare’s King Lear (1605) and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949)—both the plays need no introduction, neither their writers need any. As the Elizabethans were overwhelmed by King Lear’s intense struggle for securing his dignity as a human being in a chaotic universe, so the modern people are moved by Willy Loman’s desperate striving to attain, in Miller’s own words “his “rightful” position” (Miller, “Tragedy and the Common Man”) in a grim world governed by sheer business principles. And both the plays are endowed with certain wonderful qualities which have irresistible appeal to everyone, everywhere. Therefore, both these plays have several interesting fundamental similarities. This paper attempts a comparative study of these two texts to focus on their common features which are largely connected with their dramatists’ concern about man’s eternal conflict with the indifferent, pitiless universe. Of course, Miller’s play is not of the same order of merit as one of the greatest English tragedy like King Lear. What this paper aims to highlight is that both the plays draw their tragic force from some similar universally significant aspects of human life.

75-80

Authors: HANA FATHI FARAJALLAH, AMAL RIYADH KITISHAT & MURAD MOHAMMAD AL KAYED

This study tackled the Victorian men's superiority over the Victorian women in Robert Browning's poem, "My Last Duchess" (1842). Robert Browning is a Victorian poet who tried to revive the stifling Victorian atmosphere, via the forum of poetry, through which Victorian women lived miserably and unhappily. This study aimed at proving that women were passively presented as slaves, if compared with men, and at the same time symbolized the colonized nations. This poem, as being one of Browning's volume Men and Women (1855), showed the cruelty of Victorian men against Victorian women via Browning's use of dramatic monologue that indirectly criticized the treatment of women as slaves and inferior.

89-94

Authors: DILRABO QUVVATOVA

Some ideas on analysis of poem in Russian, world and Russian literature is studied in this article. Classification of Uzbek poems is based on V. Kikans, M. Chislov and Izzat Sulton’s thoughts

103-110

Authors: ANGKAYARKAN VINAYAKA SELVI & CECILIA MARY.S

The proposed paper intends to critically analyze the prominent issues of race, gender and genre in the mystery writing of Barbara Neely. The chosen text is a prominent political and creative space that subverts the stereotypical notions attached to black women .The writer uses the voice and experiences of a black female domestic worker Blanche White against intra-racial attitudes of African American society. The writings of Barbara Neely could be treated as a multifold record of detection, racism and women’s oppression. She proves that any genre could be used to fulfill the predicament of African American writers and genre and plot as pretexts used for the empowerment of any marginalized group

121-130

Authors: OFOEGBU, THERESA

The study investigated the extent of use of social software among pre-service science teachers in the federal universities in the South-east geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The population consists of all final year pre-service science teachers in the federal universities in the south-east geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Accidental random sampling technique was used to sample 592 final year science education student otherwise known as pre-service science teachers. The sample consists of 279 males and 314 females. The instrument for the study named Application of Social Software Questionnaire (ASSQ) consists of a 30-item questionnaire developed from the ten major classes of social software based on Mejias, 2005, classification. The instrument was validated by three experts in educational technology, measurement and evaluation and vocational teacher education. Crombach Alpha was used to determine the reliability of the instrument which was 0.82. Two research questions and one null hypothesis guided the study. Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was used to analyze the null hypothesis. The findings of the study showed that the pre-service science teachers make use of all the social software investigated. However, they do not use any of them to a very high extent. They use a few of them to a high extent and majority to a low extent. Based on the findings, some recommendations were made which include that different universities in Nigeria should be encouraged to adopt different aspects of e-learning where social software will be integrated into science teaching and learning, knowing that students are interested in them