Papers by Dr. Mehwish Zahoor
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
This study determines the relationship between reading mindsets and reading comprehension perform... more This study determines the relationship between reading mindsets and reading comprehension performance with the use of reading engagement as a mediating variable. It drew on Dweck’s (1999) mindset theory and employed a correlational research design to collect data from 567 EFL undergraduate students majoring in English in three public universities in Saudi Arabia. The data collection was conducted by distributing two questionnaires and administering a reading comprehension test. The collected data were analyzed using a two-phase structural equation modeling approach (i.e., measurement and structural models). The results indicated that there was a significant correlation between a growth reading mindset and reading engagement. Nevertheless, a significant yet negative correlation was revealed between a fixed reading mindset and reading engagement. Moreover, there was a significant and positive correlation between reading engagement and reading comprehension performance. Lastly, the fin...
British Educational Research Journal, 2019
Trames. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016
The study aimed at analysing the transitivity patterns used in the popular song "I am Malala". Th... more The study aimed at analysing the transitivity patterns used in the popular song "I am Malala". The song is an attempt by the Western media to pay tribute to Malala Yousafzai-a young girl from Pakistan-internationally acknowledged for her advocacy of women's education. The objective of the study was to analyse the character of Malala as portrayed through an anonymous girl's voice in the song. Transitivity analysis proposed by M. A. K. Halliday under Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) served as the tool of the study. The results of the study revealed the scope of transitivity analysis in yielding a better understanding of the construction of characters in a "tributive song" composed to pay tribute to important public figures.
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2013
Every text has an underlying structure which has a vital contribution in making it a meaningful w... more Every text has an underlying structure which has a vital contribution in making it a meaningful whole. Awareness of a text's structure therefore is significant in deriving the sense of the text. Story grammar offers a simple and effective framework to analyze a coherent structure in narrative texts, hence is assumed to facilitate the comprehension of narratives. The research has been designed to be a descriptive study, with the objective to explain and illustrate how story grammar can function in constructing and decoding meanings in a narrative text, and, to highlight the scope of story grammar in pedagogy. A short story text has been randomly selected from the short story collection in the English text book by Punjab text book board for Intermediate level. A three stepped comprehensive analysis of the sample text has been done by implementing the selected story grammar model. It has been found that story grammar helped in deriving a coherent structure from the short story text; hence it has pedagogical implications in developing narrative comprehension.
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Papers by Dr. Mehwish Zahoor