Papers by Sharjeel Ashraf
The paper explores the corrupted idea of the American Dream in one of the greatest novels written... more The paper explores the corrupted idea of the American Dream in one of the greatest novels written on the topic, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Even though the pursuance of the American Dream stems from the idea of hard work and success that is pure, truthful, and just, Jay Gatsby's approach in achieving it leads to his demise. His relationships with other characters, particularly Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan, were tainted because of the morally corrupted notion of the American Dream. This paper textually analyzes The Great Gatsby and explores that how Gatsby runs after a dream (Daisy) that he cannot achieve even after becoming financially wealthy, and how the corrupt ideals of the American Dream become the reason that he cannot fulfill his own dreams.
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This review article discusses the criteria for developing tests for reading skills. Reading skill... more This review article discusses the criteria for developing tests for reading skills. Reading skills are input language skills whichare considered as the most basic skills in language learning.The text focuses on the basic approaches used in developing reading tests, selection criteria of texts and authenticity, selection of test items, and the role of Bloom taxonomy in testing reading skills. Asian journal of language testing, Language testing international,Journal of research in reading,Reading research quarterly, Reading for professional purposes, Journal of reading, Journal of reading behaviour, and Language testing are reviewed to answer the research questions.Discussions are analysed and concluded that the level of the learner, objectives, and text itself decide the types of questions that can be constructed and included in reading tests.Different text may tend to different test items such as true-false, multiple-choice, matching, provide information in the table, and yet to add open-ended questions.
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Teaching English has progressed rapidly with the changing requirements of society. Current study ... more Teaching English has progressed rapidly with the changing requirements of society. Current study has not only the purpose of testing vocabulary enhancement by short stories but also monitors its effects on rural and urban population at secondary level. Present study uses Pre-test, post-test experimental design. Before starting the study, 50 students took their pre-test from rural site and 50 students took their pre-test from urban site. Only those 20, 20 students were selected from both sites whose accumulative score was almost the same. After this, five short stories were taught to both groups for five weeks with the same methodology. After the completion of coaching, a post-test was conducted. Marks of before test and after test of both rural and urban sections were compared to see the difference in learning. Data was analyzed statistically by using SPSS 20 for windows. Analysis of data proved that urban group had statistically significant improvement as compared to rural group.
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This paper aims at exploring the Realpolitik that has become the hegemony and a monopolizing tact... more This paper aims at exploring the Realpolitik that has become the hegemony and a monopolizing tactic of West for East. In Iranian Nights Realpolitik is a system through which west has been ruling over East from centuries, in past this rule was over land and now it is over psyches. Edward Said in his book Orientalism has explored how the binaries of Orient/Occident and Self/Other have given an aura of superiority to West over East. This paper further tries to explore the xenophobia that has completely over shadowed the minds and thoughts of Occident who have become more of "fanatics". In order to discover the Realpolitik of West the Postcolonial theory of Edward Said in his book Orientalism is taken in to consideration. This paper signifies that the roles given to east by west actually are their own characteristics that they cannot accept but are readily willing to impose them on others and this paper aims to challenge all the binaries created by West.
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The aim of this study is to go a step further in this line of thinking and explore the relation b... more The aim of this study is to go a step further in this line of thinking and explore the relation between genre and translation competence, on the one hand, and the communicative and textual sub-competence, on the other (Kelly, 2005). Indeed, the value of the concept of text genre in the acquisition of translation competence has already been addressed in previous works (Montalt, 2003; Montalt, Ezpeleta and García de Toro, 2005; Ezpeleta, 2005; or García Izquierdo, 2005a). Now, as we have said above, translation competence is a multifaceted concept that is made up of a number of sub-competencies and we believe it is possible to define in greater detail exactly which particular translation sub-competencies could be acquired by using text genre as a teaching aid. More specifically, the main hypothesis we will attempt to illustrate here is that this concept would be especially useful for acquiring what is known as communicative and textual subcompetence. The acquisition of translation competence is a gradual process that is strongly influenced by the degree of complexity of the texts/genres the translator is working with. The greater the complexity of the text is, the higher the level of competence required of the translator will be. This explains why the relation between text genres and the communicative and textual sub-competence is also affected by the level of complexity and/or specialisation of the texts that the translator has to deal with. Thus, following on with the line taken by the Gentt research team (www.gentt.uji.es), we will be focusing on the analysis of some genres from specialised fields (mainly medical/health care and technical genres) in an attempt to show that the relation between text genre and communicative and textual sub-competence, among others, can be very fruitful.
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