Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities

Mingle strategy is one of the strategies of speaking that aims to improve speaking skill of students by following many procedures and use one of its types. This study aims at finding out:
1- The effect of Mingle Strategy on the achievement of the students in English speaking.
2- Whether there is any significant difference between students’ achievement at the recognition level and that at production level.
3- Whether is any difference among the scale components of oral speaking skill.
These aims have been achieved through verifying the following hypotheses:
1. There is no statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the experimental group’s achievement and that of control group in pre- posttest.
2. There is no a statistically significant difference between the mean score of students’ achievement at the recognition level and that at the production level.
3. There

With three featured novels as a primary focus, this study investigates issues of gender conflict and identity crisis among migrant women. The Jungle (1904) by Upton Sinclair, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Pocho (1959) by Jose Antonio Villarreal are among the novels to be studied. The problem and role of women has been neglected. Previous research on women’s migration has focused on struggle and identity crises, resulting in a wide body of literature that can be used to better understand the issue. The following study elucidates that the unhealthy and inappropriate treatment to migrant women contributes to the continued victimization of these women. The scope of this research can be identified by STANDPOINT THEORY. This theory is adopted to analyze the domain of struggle and identity crisis of migration women. This analysis looks at a few of the American novels about women immigration and their struggle and identity crisis.

Personification is an influential figure of speech which is widely used in literature. It is a literary device that functions as a way of creating symbolic images that bear hidden meanings which should be deciphered through dismantling personification into segments in order to obtain the masqueraded meaning attended in each personification. The basic objective of this paper is to key out the mechanism that Emily Dickinson employs in generating personifications, and how the poet constructs the meaning of each personification. Successively, it also aims at unearthing how the elements that the poet hires in configuring personification are blended together though they are borrowed from different and incompatible fields that never meet together unless they are mapped out together metaphorically.The Conceptual Blending Theory was eminently exploited in the practical aspect of the research because it fits the purpose of the research. This theory is basically based on the cognitive construction of meaning which is an output of blending different elements to integrate them together to attain one concept. The mathematical relation (X + Y = Z) was applied to the personification so as to unscrew its elements, then blend them together conceptually to reach the essence of the personification. However, a bundle of sundry poems were selected from Dickinson’s collection of poems randomly. Eventually, it has been noticed that Dickinson’s personification depicts a rhetorical image to conceive metaphoric states that broaden the reader’s imagination towards issues and themes which simulate his own daily life’s experiences.

In English phonology, neutralization can be considered a process which incorporates a phonemic distinction’s elimination in a complete context of phonology. The classic example of neutralization is the neutralization of a word-final voicing contrast. If there is phonetically complete neutralization occurs, then there should be phonetically identical two surface forms. In the present study, the main aim is focusing on phonological neutralization while considering the role of phonetic and phonological representations in the perception and production of human speech. The study finds out that there is neutralization, but not always all word-final voice contrast can be neutralized (despite the devoicing rule’s operation). Moreover, the study finds out that all the rules of phonology can be applied in such a way that where neutralization can be seen and allowing underlying distinctions since, neutralized word can to be preserved or recovered.