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The Role of Congruency in Collocation Acquisition: A Case Study of Vietnamese Students Learning English Adjective + Noun Collocations

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Ngoc Thai Bao Pham
University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. ORCID: 0000-0001-5070-678X. Email: phamthaibaongoc@hcmussh.edu.vn

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 1, April-May, 2023. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n1.05
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Collocational competence is of critical importance to EFL learners’ language proficiency. Due to limited research on L1 influence on L2 learners’ development of receptive and productive knowledge of adjective + noun collocations, especially in the context of Vietnam, this study is an attempt to address these gaps by investigating whether Vietnamese learners could recognize and use congruent English adjective + noun collocations more accurately than incongruent ones. Data were collected from 72 English-major undergraduates in a Vietnamese university who completed three collocational tests: the Receptive Knowledge Test, the Productive Knowledge Test, and the paragraph-writing test. Results showed that, in contrast to language transfer theory, congruent collocations posed considerably more problems for the students in identifying the well-formed lexical combinations and using them accurately in writing. These findings highlight the importance of explicitly teaching congruent and incongruent collocations in EFL classrooms.

Keywords: congruency, language transfer, congruent collocation, incongruent collocation, adjective + noun collocation

Exploring the Effect of LearnEnglish Grammar Mobile App on English Language Learners Grammatical Competence

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Nguyen Ngoc Vu1, Truong Le Hai2, Tran Ngoc Ha3, Bui Duc Tien4
1Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages – Information Technology. ORCID: 0000-0002-3592-7813. Email: vunn@huflit.edu.vn
2Thoai Ngoc Hau high school for the gifted. ORCID: 0000-0002-7417-2222. Email: truonglehai1983@gmail.com
3Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages – Information Technology. ORCID: 0000-0001-6238-5303. Email: hatn@huflit.edu.vn
4Ho Chi Minh City University of Education. ORCID: 0000-0002-1782-4925. Email: tienbd@hcmue.edu.vn

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 1, April, 2023. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n1.04
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This study aimed to explore the impact of the LearnEnglish Grammar app on the grammatical accuracy of 10th-grade students at a gifted high school. Utilizing a quasi-experimental design, the researchers randomly assigned students to either an experimental group that used the app for grammar lessons or a control group that received traditional grammar instruction. The results revealed that the LearnEnglish Grammar mobile app significantly enhanced the experimental group’s grammar competence compared to the control group. Most learners demonstrated a positive attitude towards the app and expressed an interest in incorporating it into their language studies. These findings support the comprehensive integration of mobile learning in English grammar education to improve student achievement and lay the groundwork for future research on the effectiveness of mobile learning applications across various school subjects.

Keywords: mobile learning, grammar competency, teaching grammar, LearningEnglish Grammar app.

A Conceptual Framework for Inclusive Pedagogy in South African Multilingual Higher Education Classrooms

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Quinta Kemende Wunseh
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. ORCID:  0000-0002-9223-0641. Email: quinta.kemendewunseh@wits.ac.za

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 1, April-May, 2023. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n1.03 
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In addition to the linguistic diversity of South African nationals, the growing number of international students from other countries, especially from Africa, has made language-related issues in South African university classrooms more complex. The teaching-learning process is very challenging with linguistically heterogeneous learners with different symbols and meanings that influence the way they learn and could be a source of exclusion and a barrier to effective learning outcomes. Hence, this paper aims to shed light on strategies and practices contributing to engendering inclusive pedagogy in diverse classroom settings, especially in multilingual university classrooms. To address this, this literature review used secondary sources collected through an in-depth review of academic journals, books, and doctoral dissertations using Google Scholar. The textual analysis showed that enablers of inclusive pedagogy in South African multilingual higher education classrooms include translanguaging, continuous lecturer professional development on inclusivity, use of audio-visuals, continuous evaluation of lecturers and inclusive policies, providing learners with requisite skills, lecturers’ knowledge of learners’ diversity, and lecturer’s self-awareness and preparedness to deal with linguistically diverse learners. This resulted in a potential conceptual framework for inclusive pedagogy in multilingual South African higher education undergraduate university classrooms. The results have implications for language policy, practice, and research.

Keywords: conceptual framework, review of literature, inclusive pedagogy, multilingualism, higher education

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How Textual Production Processes Shape English Language Teaching Research Discourse

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Theron Muller
Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Toyama. ORCID: 0000-0001-9690-3738. Email: theron@las.u-toyama.ac.jp

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 1, April-May, 2023. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n1.02 
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This paper discusses the importance of researching textual production processes in writing for academic publication in language teaching research by outlining how two papers were shaped by the journal submission and review process. Using a critical discourse analysis lens and text history analysis, the authors’ difficulties in interpreting reviewer comments are illustrated along with how their manuscripts were transformed from initially pedagogy-focused texts to more research-focused at publication. The implications of this analysis for understanding authors’ publishing practices and the persistent, problematic teaching-research divide in the language teaching field are discussed. Further, the research methods used demonstrate the importance of examining the processes underlying textual production.

Keywords: Text histories, writing for publication, teaching-research divide, critical discourse analysis (CDA), text history analysis

Enhancing College Students’ Intercultural Competence through International Electronic-Service-Learning

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I-Jane Janet Weng
Department of English, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Taiwan. ORCID: 0000-0003-4718-2000. Email: 89012@gap.wzu.edu.tw

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 1, April-May, 2023. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n1.01 
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International Electronic-Service-Learning (eSL) is regarded as a pedagogical innovation, yet very few research studies focus on it. During COVID-19, seventeen Taiwanese student volunteers joined an international e-service-learning program, taking turns teaching English online for one semester to one year to primary school students in a remote village in Cambodia. This study employed a qualitative case study research design. It analyzed how an eSL program impacted Taiwanese students regarding intercultural communicative competence development. Research data included in-depth interviews, student reflection journals, bi-weekly meeting minutes, voice recordings of final presentations, and teacher’s field journals. Byram’s intercultural communicative competence framework was adopted to code the data and establish learning outcomes. Results found that the college student-volunteers enhanced their intercultural competence; this ranged from understanding real-life situations in Cambodia to empathizing with others, making cultural comparisons, and developing better interaction and communication. Most importantly, it showed that it had the potential to transform the student volunteers into intercultural citizens who began to question the taken-for-granted convention in their own life experiences critically. They became more willing to take responsibility for their own lives and those of the global community.

Keywords: international e-service-learning, intercultural competence, intercultural citizenship, service-learning, international volunteers

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Racial Prejudice and Gender Discrimination against Northeast Indians amidst COVID-19

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Debbie Lalrinawmi1 & Shuchi2
1Research Scholar, Department of Basic Sciences & Humanities Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Mizoram. Email id: debbierinawmi91@gmail.com
2Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Sciences & Humanities Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Mizoram. Email id: shuchi.hss@nitmz.ac.in

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 4, December, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n4.32
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The outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic has been largely racialized. With its origin rooted in China, Asians across the globe experienced labelling to be responsible for the pandemic. Asians or mongoloid looking individuals suffered discrimination, and contempt worldwide. In India, the pandemic restored and re-established the social problem i.e. racialism against the Northeast Indians which has been tackled over the years. While most of the Indians have non-mongoloid looks, the Northeast Indians are mainly Asiatic race. As such, they have Asian looks though Indian in blood. The fight of the Northeast Indians has been double. They have to fight against the virus as everyone, and against the negative mindset of their fellow Indians against them. The Indian government, as such, promptly established a committee to look into the matter. But there has been no law against it which makes it hard to act accordingly. Besides the racial affliction, there existed gender discrimination which doubled the affliction of the women of northeast Indians.

Keywords: Racism; gender discrimination; Covid-19; Northeast Indian

Twinning the Pandemic and the Anthropocene: Crises, Challenge and Conciliation in the Anxious Witnessing of Nonhuman Agency

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Kaustabh Kashyap
PhD Scholar, Cotton University, Assam.ORCID: 0000-0001-8302-2296. Email: eng2091006_kaustabh@cottonuniversity.ac.in

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 4, December, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n4.31
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This paper seeks to situate the anxieties engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic within the framework of the Anthropocene to analyse the multi-faceted ramifications of human and nonhuman interaction. By connecting this ongoing global crisis of human health with the politics of climate change, it attempts to read the forgotten agency of the nonhuman microbe in the light of the rude disruption of the traditional understandings of biopolitics (where bare life has taken centre stage) and the difficulties it has brought in bridging the rift between abstract and concrete information, leading to the scapegoating of victims. It ends with the suggestion of preparation for greener futures by imagining human health within planetary health instead of an anxious wait for a return to pre-pandemic times.

Keywords: pandemic, Anthropocene, biopolitics, nonhuman, health.

Aspects and Dimensions in Collaborative Approach: To Improve Research Discovery in Digital Arts and Digital Humanities

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Mustari Bosra1, Sumarsih2, Somantri Manap3, and Wamaungo Juma Abdu4
1Department of History Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia. Email: mustalibosra@gmail.com. ORCID: 0000-0003-3802-8722
2Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Training and Teacher Education, Universitas Bengkulu, Indonesia. ORCID: 0000-0002-1709-1987
3Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Training and Teacher Education, Universitas Bengkulu, Indonesia. ORCID: 0000-0002-5636-2137
4EDURES Global Link, Majalengka, Indonesia. ORCID: 0000-0001-7354-9254

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 4, December, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n4.30
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Utilizing casual local area assessment and insight contraptions, as well as the improvement of the field of automated workmanship since 2013, this paper expects to look at the design, examples, and subjects of cross-public joint efforts in Digital Humanities research. This contains works from the Web of Science Core Collection as of December 2018 in the field of computerized humanities. The discoveries demonstrate the fact that there is a lot of global cooperation in the field of computerized humanities research; the conveyance among nations is lopsided. In this article, we explicitly audited the accounts and discoveries that have been made during the advancement of this specific field of examination, looking at how much they can or ought to be re-examined considering the post-computerized culture where we get ourselves as a part of post-humanistic thinking. This study utilized various informatics procedures and advances to distinguish the examples, subjects, and designs of the global joint effort in digital humanities research and digital art.

Keywords: Digital humanities, Digital art, Collaboration, Visual resource, Post digital society, Research topic

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Religious Heritage: Reconciliation between Spirituality and Cultural Concerns

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Óscar Fernández-Álvarez1, Miguel González-González2, Sara Ouali-Fernández3
1Department of Social Anthropology, University of León (Spain). ORCID: 0000-0002-5254-6908. Email: oscar.fernandez@unileon.es
2Department of Social Anthropology, University of León (Spain). ORCID: 0000-0003-2577-5753. Email: migog@unileon.es
3Department of Social Anthropology, University of León (Spain). ORCID: 0000-0002-4184-0298. Email: sara_o_f@hotmail.com

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 4, December, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n4.29
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Religious heritage has a dual cultural and religious meaning and importance in society. It has a cultural value because it symbolises the history and art of a community, and a religious value because it represents a spiritual hub and home for a community of believers. This article analyses the challenges posed by this association between religious heritage —as both an economic and tourism resource— and cultural heritage. Methodologically, an observation, reflection and analysis of the challenges that are faced are proposed. The results reveal various initiatives for development, protection and enhancement. The discussion revolves around the importance of community involvement and the benefits this brings to various sectors, including economic activity, from the perspective of religious tourism as an aspect of tourism per se, in which a faith and its believers are elements that merit heritage conservation.

Keywords: Anthropology, Heritage, Religion, Religious tourism

Plague, Nature, Planetary Future: A Posthumanist Reading of The Scarlet Plague

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Xinshuo Zhou1 & Quan Wang2
1English Department, Beihang University. Email: 1014261746@qq.com
2Professor of English and Comparative Literature, English Department, Beihang University. ORCID: 0000-0001-5848-4368. Email: wangquanheming@126.com

Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 4, December, 2022. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n4.28
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This article proposes a posthumanist reading of Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague, and argues that to secure a sustainable planetary future, human beings should understand the posthumanist nature of the world, and learn to respect nature. This article investigates two kinds of worlds, showing a preference for the posthumanist one after the plague over the anthropocentric one before the plague. In the anthropocentric world, the life of human beings is heavily industrialized and isolated from nature, and this causes disaster. However, in the posthumanist world, everything follows natural laws. Human beings are no longer dominators of the world, but share the planet with the nonhuman. In this way, both the human and the nonhuman survive and prosper. Thus, posthumanist thinking provides human beings with a way to make sustainable developments and to build a bright future.

Keywords: posthumanism, anthropocentrism, plague, nature

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