This cross-sectional survey examined associations between digital cultural heritage (DCH), sacred-institution engagement (SIE), perceived indigenous-governance legitimacy (IGL), and confidence in culturally grounded leadership (CCL) in Southeast Nigeria. A structured questionnair...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3353
This descriptive classroom case study examines vocabulary teaching in one Chinese-language lesson involving 35 second-year junior secondary students, aged 14–15 years, at a public school in Phayao, northern Thailand. The account of a 45-minute lesson and its associated assessment...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3354
This article examines the relationship between tone, intonation, and information structure in Baule-Kode, a variety of Baule spoken in central Côte d’Ivoire. The account draws on twelve groups of illustrative lexical and sentential examples, including four annotated fundamental-f...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3351
This study examines how revolutionary culture can be integrated into the course Techniques of Mixed Media Expression in Painting at Baise University. It focuses on how cultural resources can guide creative inquiry, visual decisions, and material choices in studio practice. Previo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3352
This article examines how Vietnamese news and institutional heritage discourse draws on the semantic domain of flow to construct traditional handicrafts as practices with origins, continuity, and vulnerability to disruption. Rather than assigning every historically water-related...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3350
This study examines the specialised lexical repertoire of the Kegite (Palm Wine Drinkers') Club at Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria. The study draws on participant observation and oral interviews with purposively selected fully initiated members, whose familiarity with club...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3349
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Bhutan find it difficult to speak fluently. This study examined the impact of Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS) on the speaking fluency and confidence of Grade VIII learners in a Bhutanese middle secondary school. A mixed-...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3348
Contemporary Gothic fiction is gradually moving beyond its conventional reliance on Gothic terrors, including supernatural forces, ghosts, ghouls, and haunted castles. Instead, it is moving towards the fears and uncertainties of the human mind. Alex Michaelides’s The Silent Patie...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3347
This study compares the protagonists in the novels of Knut Hamsun's Hunger and Growth of the Soil, by investigating their situations as artist cum vagabond and peasant, respectively in the tensions of contemporary subjectivity. The analysis is concerned with alienation, artistic...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3345
Gond art, one of India's oldest Indigenous art traditions, reflects the rich cultural heritage, spiritual beliefs, and ecological worldview of the Gond tribe of central India. Traditionally created on the walls and floors of village homes during rituals and festivals, this vibran...
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Research Article10.9734/ajl2c/2026/v9i3346