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    Clash between romantics political aspirations & philosophy of art and aesthetics
    (Research Journal of English Language and Literature, 2016) Rida Sarfraz; Sadia Riaz
    The paper extensively studies the philosophy of art and aesthetics with reference to the Romantics’ Poetry. The paper aims at exploring the English Romantics’ rapturous refuge of imaginative experience for the creation of Plato’s inspired ideal world and their flight away from stark reality. The paper unravels the ways in which Romantic poetry, especially, of William Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, bears marks of prevalent socio-politico condition. The study scrutinizes the tug of war between the Romantic aesthetics of “art for art’s sake” with its God-like dreamland of imagination and the Romantics’ pragmatic political ethos which causes the split. Consequently, the gnawing gap is created in the Romantic soul where both the world of reality and the imagination battle to conquer. The paper aims to shed light on such Romantic fissure, it is divided into four portions: the first part deals with the Romantic aesthetics, the second section highlights their political ethos mirroring in the Romantics’ poems, the third portion studies the underlying connection between the Romantic aesthetics and the Romantics’ political aspirations and the fourth part brings out the inherent contradictions between the two. This is a qualitative study based upon hermeneutic theory of in depth artistic analysis. The paper concludes the two contradictory traits: one, their desire to remain intact with the current political situations that breed political aspiration thus forming a part of this world of reality. And secondly their desire for mystical experiences and flight into the world of imagination, which according to the Romantics is more real than this reality, through their poetry. These two traits become antagonistic because the world of imagination also constructs an ideal world where every individual is happy. In other words it creates a utopia that stands in sharp contrast with the political aspirations because it lacks pragmatism. The paper is contextualized in Romantics’ Poetry for a better comprehension of the schema of art and aesthetics.
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    Comparison between Shaw�s and Brecht�s treatment of political consciousness
    (Language in India, 2015) Sadia Riaz; Rida Sarfraz; Farhan Ebadat Yar Khan
    The German Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) and the Englishman George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) were socially and politically active, innovative, progressive, radical, controversial, and “problem” playwrights who wrote in tradition of political theatre. Most active during the first half of the Twentieth Century, both were revolutionary social critics who shocked their contemporaries with the unpopular activist philosophies of their plays and other writings. Their political philosophies stemmed from the same fount of Marxism. Brecht adopted communism and Shaw espoused socialism. In their dramatic works, their political consciousness reflects in their dramatic characterization, thematic concerns, and stylistic organization and devices. This paper aims at examining the treatment of political consciousness in these master political playwrights of political consciousness through comparison and analysis of their art of characterization, thematic patterns, and dramaturgical techniques. Interestingly, their characters become their mouth pieces by manifesting their creators’ political conscious through ironic tone or through morally negative consequences of the idealist behaviour of their heroines. Moreover, both cloak their political thematic patterns in dramatic devices which will also come under scrutiny. However, they were different temperamentally which somehow shaped their respective dramatic visions and intentions somewhat differently.
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    The image of the woman paralleled with the decline of Delhi.
    (Language in India, 2015) Sadia Riaz
    This paper critically analyzes and traces the parallel images that contribute in establishing Ahmed Ali as both a feminist writer who brings out the voice of the suppressed female as well as a writer who laments the change that the Delhi city and the people of India were wrought. In tracing this decline, Ahmed Ali’s feminist stance is also revealed, where he likens the beauty of the Delhi city with the beauty of a woman. It is thus, that the image of the woman: the courtesan as well as the domestic woman reign important in the novel. The gradual decline of the position of women, demonstrated in the marriages that take place and in their physical ailments and gradual deaths, is paralleled with the historical changes that take place in this city.
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    Phonological analysis of nick names in Punjabi
    (Language In India, 2016) Faiza Abid; Naheed Ashfaq; Aisha Niazi
    This paper relates to the study of nicknames in Punjabi language .it help us to understand about the transitions of syllable from name to nick names. The names are categorized depending upon the number of syllables in name and the characteristics of first syllable. In this paper only those nicknames are focused which have connection with the names, however passing a comment is also one of the convention of nicknames that directly have no connection with the names.
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    The role of positive and negative reinforcement in motivating student learning.
    (Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies., 2016) Aasma Bibi; Faiza Abid
    This study aims to examine the impact of reinforcement in motivating student learning. Participants in the study were English teachers teaching at Garrison Boys High school Girja Chock Lahore Cantt and English teachers at Government Islamia Girls High School Baghbanpura Lahore in 2012 to 2013 academic year; a total of fourteen people. The study design uses a mixed method approach: semi-structured interviews and close-ended questionnaires were used for data collection. Findings of the study showed that reinforcement has a great and long lasting impact on learning of the students.
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    School of communication and cultural studies
    (3RD INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE CONFERENCE (ILC) 2014, 2014) Ayesha Zafar
    This research paper discusses the language teachers’ use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in urban private school of Lahore with a particular emphasis on improving the quality of language teaching. The sample of the study is taken from the middle and senior school language teachers. It focuses on the internal factors of influence on teachers use, or lack of use, of technology in the classroom. Moreover, the discussion attends to the technological literacy, pedagogical expertise related to technology use and the motivating effects of ICT on teachers. These factors are discussed in the light of significant infrastructure and other external issues. It concludes by drawing out a number of academic implications for initial teacher education and professional development to bring schooling within developing contexts.
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    Students attitude towards teachers urdu code-switching in esl class-rooms at university of management & technology Lahore
    (Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2015) Amina Khalid; Naheed Ashfaq
    In multilingual classrooms such as in Pakistan most of the individuals have the knowledge of two or more languages, the linguistic phenomenon of combining languages is quite frequent. “A common term for alternative use of two or more languages, varieties of a language or even speech styles” is called codeswitching (Hymes, 1974). The present article investigates the students’ attitudes to Urdu code-switching (CS) used by teachers in English as a Second Language classes at University of Management & Technology Lahore. A sample of 30 students studying at undergraduate level has been taken. Quantitative approach of data analysis has been used to investigate the responses. A 10-item questionnaire was developed and distributed among the students. The closed questions of the questionnaires were analyzed statistically by using the SPSS program. The results display that students have positive attitude towards teachers’ code-switching in ESL class-rooms and teachers’ code-switching is an effective teaching strategy when teaching English in Pakistani scenario.