Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities

This study aims at investigating the techniques used in teaching literary texts in secondary schools and the difficulties behind practicing these techniques that teachers encounter in teaching literature. It is hypothesized that teachers of English still use the traditional way in teaching literary texts, and female teachers use more various ways than male teachers. A questionnaire is designed to achieve the aims of the study. Finally it has been concluded that teachers of English use the traditional way of teaching and they do not use the principles of communicative method in teaching literature.

This research deals with the problems of translating a number of administrative and economic abstracts taken from the conference of the collage of Administration and Economics that was held in the college. The use of an nonequivalent vocabulary in the translation of these texts and their impact on the intended meaning (translated text). Where the hypothesis is that there is no equivalent in the use of scientific terms (administrative and economic). And there are problems on the semantic and syntactic levels in the translation and transfer of scientific terms at the level of the word and sentence. The research aims to show these linguistic errors at the semantic and syntactic levels of word and sentence in the translation of these abstracts from Arabic to Englishnd recognize these errors. The researcher's assessment of the translation of these abstracts is based on House's model of translation quality assessment according to the type of data chosen (the technical and scientific terms) which depends on the notion of "equivalence", the equivalence relation equals the relation between the original text (ST) and its translation. The analysis of this research also refers to what information is being conveyed and what the relationship is between sender And and receiver. The research concludes that most of thesetranslations were inappropriate and did not match the original text. There is no equivalence in word level and sentence level.Scientific and technical terms (administrative and economic) have been translated literally. A situation that affects the general meaning of these abstracts and gives them a different and literal meaning of the word in the sentence or text used. Hence there is a loss of meaning of these abstracts.© 2019 JTUH, College of Education for Human Sciences, Tikrit University

This paper adopts Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to study Siegfried Sassoon, a major character in Pat Barker’s Regeneration. SFG shows the relationships between various process types and the participants who participate in the action. Accordingly, Barker`s characterization of Sassoon is better understood through the analysis of the linguistic choices they make. Therefore, the study claims that Barker’s and Sassoon’s linguistic choices can reveal many aspects of the latter’s world view and psychology. One such issue demonstrated by Regeneration a psychological disorder inflicting the soldiers is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Feminism since its emergence is based, in essence, on the principle of equality not only between men and woman, but even between women themselves. As such, feminism is concerned with how women are engaged in the process of being and becoming—a process that diminishes labeling womenfolk as the "Inferior Other Sex". The study argues that narratives written by feminist writers like Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, and Kate Chopin are Gynocritical feminists writing back to an androcentric culture and the patriarical system whose sole aim is to silence women , treat them as an inferior sex, and confine them to the roles of nursering and nurturing. The following study reflects on a literary mosaic composed of denouncing voices that provide more insights into the nature of women's existence. Elucidated under the umbrella of feminism, the examined narratives, namely The Yellow Wallpaper, The New Dress, and A Story of an Hour, shed the light on different aspects related to women's being and becoming including hysteria, the objectified angel, the invisible being, women's authentication, and so on. The study draws heavily on feminist critics who present different discussions about masculine subjugation of women and feminist's avenue towards self-actualization. The study falls into four sections and a conclusion. Section one is an introduction illustrating the core of feminism with reference to its main concepts. Section two tackles the concept of hysteria as it is represented in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". Section three examines Kate Chopin's "A Story of an Hour" through the lenses of Simon de Beauvoir's existentialist perspectives. Section four reflects on Virginia Woolf's treatment of women's attempts to transcend passivity as it is represented in "The New Dress". The Conclusion highlights the findings of the study.

This study is designed due to a consideration that pronunciation has always been the most challenging skill faced by EFL students. Media is very helpful in improving their pronunciation ability. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify whether the movie is a good medium to improve students’ pronunciation or not and to find out students’ perception toward using movie as a medium in learning English pronunciation.
This research took place in Tikrit University, at the second semester of Media department students. Thirty students had participated in this research. This research applied a quantitative approach and used a pre experimental research design including pretest and post-test. The data were obtained from both tests to measure the students’ ability. The result showed that movie is effective in improving students’ pronunciation ability. It is proved by the mean score of post-test which was higher than that of pre-test. The mean score of pretests was 49,01 while that of post-tests was 68,55. After all, movie can help students to construct their ideas in practicing pronunciation better than before.