This article reports an analysis of secondary students' experiences of using social media for learning English. It employed qualitative interpretative research design and taken online semi-structured interviews with the participants and their classes were observed to obtain qualitative information. The findings reveal that how social media helps secondary students for learning English formally inside the classroom and informally out of the classroom providing extra resources of English to improve listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. This study also examines the experiences of secondary teachers of English about using social media in the classroom. It reports on social media empowered the teachers of English by accessing various information on technique of teaching English and course contain. It further shows social media enabled secondary students and teachers to create collaborative learning environment to co-construct the knowledge. However, this study also reports on some of the teachers and students were unable to use social media regularly in their homes due to lack of electricity and internet access and proper devices. This study provides better understanding that use of social media can support learning English effectively in the future.

This article reports how Melanie was subaltern character in the novel Disgrace written by J M Coetzee. As a literary qualitative research, this paper utilized subaltern theory developed by Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to analyze lived experiences of injustices and exploitation over her. The findings of this study revealed that Melanie as a subaltern woman; victimized and suppressed from racial, gender and other various layers of injustices. Likewise, she belonged to minority Muslim community and, due to which she had to face tremendous injustices. Although she was an educated university student, was many times raped by her own professor; consequently, she was tortured with psychological pain and very often faced family conflicts indeed. As a result of patriarchal ideology, she remained silence and further became submissive and docile character. However, the findings further exhibited that after being exploited for long; she developed consciousness about the injustices over her; thereby, she rejected such injustices by forwarding the case against her own professor to the university. The findings have overarching consequences which will contribute to explore further issues of subaltern in the novel.

This article critically analyzes Golding's Lord of the Flies to investigate how human nature was allegorically depicted by constructing an almost parallel fictional world to his contemporary time. In this paper, I argued, Golding allegorically exhibited the basic human nature of his contemporary time by experimenting with the schoolboys on the Pacific Ocean which unveiled the brutal and uncivilized nature of schoolboys and such activities as depicted in the novel resembled the brutal and savagery nature of the men of his time. The methodology, I employed in this study was a close analysis of primary text to examine how Golding used allegory to uncover the basic nature of human beings and I analyzed secondary resources related to the study to support my arguments. The analysis identified that Golding depicted savagery and animalistic human nature through allegory which questioned the traditional understanding of human nature as civilized and moral and his experience of involving in the war, and working as a school teacher assisted him in reflecting such brutal and uncivilized events of his time by constructing an almost parallel story. He provided a wider space and various layers of secondary meanings of characters, setting, and events, of the story which resonated in many respects with the events of his contemporary time. In addition, this study unpacked the fact that savagery existed inside the heart of the human, and manifested in a lack of guardianship and civilizational forces in human beings. This paper will be useful in exploring the novel for a better understanding of human nature, and it will also provide direction for further study.

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In the present context, Research in English Studies has been modified and transformed with the application of digital tools and the latest developed innovative research methods. On the other hand, the postmodern philosophical worldview questioned the reliability of the data, arguments in the research, and more precisely in the findings of the whole research project (Denzin & Lincoln, 2018). In addition, the production of knowledge has been controlled by establishing various limitations and imperatives in research and publication. In such a situation, this interview was conducted with Gabriele Griffin via email for exploring the latest development in the field of research in English Studies particularly focusing on research and publication. The main objective of this interview is to unveil the contemporary research trends more importantly in the field of English Studies and to derive some of the historical development in the field of research. This interview has great significance by providing the fresh idea to the readers regarding the role of theory, production, and dissemination of knowledge