Adaptation to change is not an easy process and sometimes does not happen at all. When people perceive that their freedom is going to be altered due to an unwanted change, they outwardly exhibit some symptomatic reactive behaviors such as inertia, resistance, skepticism, and aggression. No matter how intense people's reactance is, only a few of them may manage to examine the unwanted change more deeply and find a way to conform or adapt. Knowing this, the current article focuses on a theoretical proactive model or a solution. The model mainly works on the idea of recognizing the symptomatic behavioral reactance of learners. In other words, in the face of the reactance-induced behaviors depicted in the model, the instructors can apply four proactive strategies of brainstorming, open transparent conversation, small scale project assignment and triple "c" rule by means of which they can walk learners safely towards mutual trust, classroom stability and learner commitment. In the end, as the model is new, there is still enough room for further experimental researches on different aspects of the model in actual classroom settings.

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According to Qur'an, God's divine merit-demerit system never allows for any biased treatment towards men or women. Dignity instead is what God has granted on all children of Adam. The present article, hence, sought to trace back women's dignity and equality to the discourse of Qur'an working on a sample of 11 Surahs. The discourse analysis was based on combinatory perspectives of text linguistics, pragmatics, and rhetoric. The results revealed that the most salient marked discoursal devices of women's equality and dignity were the techniques such as parallelism, anaphoric repetitions, juxtaposition of the believers' attributes, emphatic negative propositions. In addition, the sometimes situated hierarchical pattern of relationship between men and women were not indicative of any unfair evaluation of either gender. Instead, the yardstick was the amount of the believers' efforts in the way of God's "forgiveness and reward".