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Nabi, Naqibun; Ahmed, Firoz – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The post-world war II American social and cultural setting was ambiguously featured with enforced conformity in the name of prosperity and Americanization of the nation. Despite of this fact, American writers, especially, dramatists conveyed their message against this fixation through variety and intellectuality. Edward Albee's "The Zoo…
Descriptors: United States History, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards
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Chen, Joanna – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Within the frameworks of Sociocultural theory, particularly Vygotskian sociocultural theory and ZPD, Lave and Wenger's CoP, and contemporary sociocultural theory, this paper seeks to examine the unfavourable scholarly portrayal of learners and their identities based on learners' behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs about the social element of…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Aghaei, Mohammad B. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is always keen on presenting to the people the various facets of their history. His literary language acts as effective means for describing the critical historical aspects of Latin America because the legacy of colonialism had destroyed so many important traces of the native culture of that area. This has led him to search…
Descriptors: Latin American Literature, Latin American History, Latin American Culture, Foreign Policy