M Imran
Biographic Data
| ID | 36221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Imran |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Imran |
| SIGNATURE | IMRAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Khazar University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8754-2157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Examining the linguistic and behavioural patterns of gender identity in women with dissociative identity disorder
Despite extensive psycholinguistic research on gendered language, investigations of how psychological gender identity shapes linguistic behavior in clinical populations remain scarce. Drawing on Lakoff’s deficit model, which links hedges, tag questions and intensifiers to low authority and self-confidence, we explore gender‐linked speech variation in dissociative identity disorder (DID). Publicly available interview transcripts from six women dia…
Reader positioning and engagement strategies in English and Arabic online discourse
The exploration of communication and cross- cultural nuances on vastly networked digital platforms remains relatively limited. Based on English and Arabic tweets on X (formerly Twitter), this study explores how writers construct interpersonal meaning, authorial stance, and position the putative reader when discussing ChatGPT. A qualitative analysis of tweets about ChatGPT in both English and Arabic was conducted from the functional perspective of…
Digital learning transformation: A study of teachers’ post-Covid-19 experiences
The COVID-19 epidemic has caused learning to change in ways that have never been anticipated before. This article examines teachers' difficulties due to COVID-19's global return of students from various modes, settings, and locations to a regular educational system. Although there are more online options, face-to-face instruction might be more effective. The article attempts to envision education in a post-COVID-19 world, hoping that learning sys…
Exploring the Relationship Between Critical Thinking and Creativity in University Students: Gender Differences and the Assessment of Skills
This study aimed to explore the relationship between the critical thinking and creativity skills of university students. The objectives were to explore the level of critical thinking skills, the degree of creativity in students’ written exam papers, the nature of the relationship between these constructs, and gender differences in the manifestation of these skills in writing. A sample of 167 students, including 100 females and 67 males, from a co…
Bridging cultures through explicitation: A corpus-based analysis of bilingual literary translations
This study examines explicitation strategies in translated literary texts to determine their impact on the text’s clarity, style, and cultural representation. Focusing on how these shifts affect the explicitation shifts, the study analyzed two modern Urdu novels, La Hasil and Aks, and their English translations. Using TagAnt and UAM CorpusTool, the study examines approximately 30,000 words of each text to determine the frequency and function of e…
Trends and Gender Dynamics in Professional Certification Growth in Saudi Arabia
This study explores the trends and gender dynamics in professional certification growth in Saudi Arabia, a key driver of workforce development and economic transformation. While professional certifications are increasingly valued across various industries, there has been limited research exploring demographic trends and disparities in their attainment. Using publicly available data from the KSA Open Data Platform (n = 990), this study analyzes ce…
Emerging E-learning trends: A study of faculty perceptions and impact of collaborative techniques using fuzzy interface system
This study explores the emerging trends in e-learning from the perspective of university faculty, who play a crucial role in shaping the future of education. The rapid shift to digital education during and after COVID-19 has presented challenges for university faculty to grapple with new e-learning technologies. A qualitative research design was used to develop deep insights into upcoming e-learning trends. Data were collected from a sample of 70…
Analyzing the role of ChatGPT as a writing assistant at higher education level: A systematic review of the literature
This study examines the role of ChatGPT as a writing assistant in academia through a systematic literature review of the 30 most relevant articles. Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has become the most debated topic among scholars and is also being used by many users from different fields. Many articles, reviews, blogs, and opinion essays have been published in which the potential role of ChatGPT as a writing assistant is discussed. For…
An Answer to Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak? A Study of Marginalized Women’s Autobiographies
This article discusses marginalized women’s resistance to patriarchal norms in a male-dominated Afghan society. This study analyses the literary modes of selected autobiographies—Fawzia Koofi’s The Favored Daughter, Sarina Sarwari’s Sokhan-i Del-i Yek Zan (Words from the Heart of a Woman) and Hadisa Osmani’s Pursuing My Dreams as an Afghan Woman—with Spivak’s essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ In this article, Spivak’s idea of subaltern has been de…
Language teaching in the linguistic landscape: Mobilizing pedagogy in public space
AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the Education Research Lab, Prince Sultan University, for financial and technical support
Teaching innovation in university education: Case studies and main practices
AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the Education Research Lab, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia for financial and technical support
Pedagogies for future-oriented adult learners: Flipping the lens from teaching to learning
Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women
This article focuses on Khaled Hosseini's use of the analogy of women as obedient, resistant, and empowered as modern archetypes who learn of the gendered oppression that works through their bodies. Khaled Hosseini, through his writings, lends voice and offers moral encouragement to women by crafting resistant, rebellious, empowered, and strong female characters. With theoretical support from Johnson's Patriarchal Terrorism and Spivak's Can the s…
Automated and Human Interaction in Written Discourse: A Contrastive Parallel Corpus-based Investigation of Metadiscourse Features in Machine-Human Translations
The rise of the internet has generated a need for fast online translations, which human translators cannot meet. Statistical tools such as Google and Baidu Translate provide automatic translation from one written language to another. This study reports the descriptive comparison of the machine-translation (MT) with human translation (HT), considering the metadiscoursal interactional features. The study uses a parallel corpus consisting of 79 text…
Environmental Education and Women: Voices From Pakistan
This article aims at investigating the relevance of a gender perspective in societies where women are mainly responsible for the household and childcare. For this purpose, the activities of two environmental and women’s empowerment–related nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from Pakistan, Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) and Aurat (woman) Foundation, have been investigated with the help of a case study methodology. Semi-structu…
Health Consciousness, Food Safety Concern, and Consumer Purchase Intentions Toward Organic Food: The Role of Consumer Involvement and Ecological Motives
The organic food market is speedily growing in the current era; organizations in this industry, therefore, need to understand consumer motivations, perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral intentions of purchasing organic food. Based on a survey of 268 respondents, we investigated the relationships between individuals' food safety concerns and health consciousness with their purchase intentions of organic food. The findings of our study reveal that…
Geopolitical Dynamics of Afghanistan and Concerns of Regional and Global Actors vis a vis Pakistan
Afghanistan is a landlocked Country and it's topographically surrounded by East West and North South extensions of Hindukush range which traps the invaders. It forms a crucial bridge which connects the Southern and Eastern Asia to Central Asia and West Asia. Afghanistan has enormous importance for the global world during the 19 th century, the area which is today called Afghanistan acted as a buffer zone between the Britisher and the imperialist …
Empowering Online Methods of Student-Teacher Communication: The Opportunities and Challenges of Web-Based Technologies and Social Media During Covid-19 Lockdown
The use of web-based technologies and social media to enhance student-teacher communication is a growing trend in education in recent times. After the COVID 19 pandemic, the worldwide network has been widely used and the infrastructure for information quickly developed. This study aims to explore the perceptions of teachers and students about the use of web and social media during the COVID-19 pandemic at postgraduate level. Firstly, this study e…
Thematic Parallels in Shakespeare and the 19th Century Urdu Poetry: A Comparative Study
This paper highlights that although Urdu poetry in the 19th century and English in Shakespeare's time is the embodiment of two different cultural, social, religious, and environmental factors, in their basic philosophies, both shared much that seems to be brought from a similar realm of thought. In this paper, the authors focus only on the thematic comparison of the key ideas, concentrating on topics and themes familiar in that time like life and…
Health Consciousness, Food Safety Concern, and Consumer Purchase Intentions Toward Organic Food: The Role of Consumer Involvement and Ecological Motives
The organic food market is speedily growing in the current era; organizations in this industry, therefore, need to understand consumer motivations, perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral intentions of purchasing organic food. Based on a survey of 268 respondents, we investigated the relationships between individuals' food safety concerns and health consciousness with their purchase intentions of organic food. The findings of our study reveal that…
An Answer to Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak? A Study of Marginalized Women’s Autobiographies
This article discusses marginalized women’s resistance to patriarchal norms in a male-dominated Afghan society. This study analyses the literary modes of selected autobiographies—Fawzia Koofi’s The Favored Daughter, Sarina Sarwari’s Sokhan-i Del-i Yek Zan (Words from the Heart of a Woman) and Hadisa Osmani’s Pursuing My Dreams as an Afghan Woman—with Spivak’s essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ In this article, Spivak’s idea of subaltern has been de…
Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women
This article focuses on Khaled Hosseini's use of the analogy of women as obedient, resistant, and empowered as modern archetypes who learn of the gendered oppression that works through their bodies. Khaled Hosseini, through his writings, lends voice and offers moral encouragement to women by crafting resistant, rebellious, empowered, and strong female characters. With theoretical support from Johnson's Patriarchal Terrorism and Spivak's Can the s…
Geopolitical Dynamics of Afghanistan and Concerns of Regional and Global Actors vis a vis Pakistan
Afghanistan is a landlocked Country and it's topographically surrounded by East West and North South extensions of Hindukush range which traps the invaders. It forms a crucial bridge which connects the Southern and Eastern Asia to Central Asia and West Asia. Afghanistan has enormous importance for the global world during the 19 th century, the area which is today called Afghanistan acted as a buffer zone between the Britisher and the imperialist …
Empowering Online Methods of Student-Teacher Communication: The Opportunities and Challenges of Web-Based Technologies and Social Media During Covid-19 Lockdown
The use of web-based technologies and social media to enhance student-teacher communication is a growing trend in education in recent times. After the COVID 19 pandemic, the worldwide network has been widely used and the infrastructure for information quickly developed. This study aims to explore the perceptions of teachers and students about the use of web and social media during the COVID-19 pandemic at postgraduate level. Firstly, this study e…
Thematic Parallels in Shakespeare and the 19th Century Urdu Poetry: A Comparative Study
This paper highlights that although Urdu poetry in the 19th century and English in Shakespeare's time is the embodiment of two different cultural, social, religious, and environmental factors, in their basic philosophies, both shared much that seems to be brought from a similar realm of thought. In this paper, the authors focus only on the thematic comparison of the key ideas, concentrating on topics and themes familiar in that time like life and…
Environmental Education and Women: Voices From Pakistan
This article aims at investigating the relevance of a gender perspective in societies where women are mainly responsible for the household and childcare. For this purpose, the activities of two environmental and women’s empowerment–related nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from Pakistan, Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) and Aurat (woman) Foundation, have been investigated with the help of a case study methodology. Semi-structu…
Health Consciousness, Food Safety Concern, and Consumer Purchase Intentions Toward Organic Food: The Role of Consumer Involvement and Ecological Motives
The organic food market is speedily growing in the current era; organizations in this industry, therefore, need to understand consumer motivations, perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral intentions of purchasing organic food. Based on a survey of 268 respondents, we investigated the relationships between individuals' food safety concerns and health consciousness with their purchase intentions of organic food. The findings of our study reveal that…
Khaled Hosseini's women as modern archetypes: A study of obedient, resistant and empowered Afghan women
This article focuses on Khaled Hosseini's use of the analogy of women as obedient, resistant, and empowered as modern archetypes who learn of the gendered oppression that works through their bodies. Khaled Hosseini, through his writings, lends voice and offers moral encouragement to women by crafting resistant, rebellious, empowered, and strong female characters. With theoretical support from Johnson's Patriarchal Terrorism and Spivak's Can the s…
Automated and Human Interaction in Written Discourse: A Contrastive Parallel Corpus-based Investigation of Metadiscourse Features in Machine-Human Translations
The rise of the internet has generated a need for fast online translations, which human translators cannot meet. Statistical tools such as Google and Baidu Translate provide automatic translation from one written language to another. This study reports the descriptive comparison of the machine-translation (MT) with human translation (HT), considering the metadiscoursal interactional features. The study uses a parallel corpus consisting of 79 text…
Analyzing the role of ChatGPT as a writing assistant at higher education level: A systematic review of the literature
This study examines the role of ChatGPT as a writing assistant in academia through a systematic literature review of the 30 most relevant articles. Since its release in November 2022, ChatGPT has become the most debated topic among scholars and is also being used by many users from different fields. Many articles, reviews, blogs, and opinion essays have been published in which the potential role of ChatGPT as a writing assistant is discussed. For…
An Answer to Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak? A Study of Marginalized Women’s Autobiographies
This article discusses marginalized women’s resistance to patriarchal norms in a male-dominated Afghan society. This study analyses the literary modes of selected autobiographies—Fawzia Koofi’s The Favored Daughter, Sarina Sarwari’s Sokhan-i Del-i Yek Zan (Words from the Heart of a Woman) and Hadisa Osmani’s Pursuing My Dreams as an Afghan Woman—with Spivak’s essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ In this article, Spivak’s idea of subaltern has been de…
Language teaching in the linguistic landscape: Mobilizing pedagogy in public space
AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the Education Research Lab, Prince Sultan University, for financial and technical support
Teaching innovation in university education: Case studies and main practices
AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the Education Research Lab, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia for financial and technical support
Pedagogies for future-oriented adult learners: Flipping the lens from teaching to learning
Emerging E-learning trends: A study of faculty perceptions and impact of collaborative techniques using fuzzy interface system
This study explores the emerging trends in e-learning from the perspective of university faculty, who play a crucial role in shaping the future of education. The rapid shift to digital education during and after COVID-19 has presented challenges for university faculty to grapple with new e-learning technologies. A qualitative research design was used to develop deep insights into upcoming e-learning trends. Data were collected from a sample of 70…
Examining the linguistic and behavioural patterns of gender identity in women with dissociative identity disorder
Despite extensive psycholinguistic research on gendered language, investigations of how psychological gender identity shapes linguistic behavior in clinical populations remain scarce. Drawing on Lakoff’s deficit model, which links hedges, tag questions and intensifiers to low authority and self-confidence, we explore gender‐linked speech variation in dissociative identity disorder (DID). Publicly available interview transcripts from six women dia…
Reader positioning and engagement strategies in English and Arabic online discourse
The exploration of communication and cross- cultural nuances on vastly networked digital platforms remains relatively limited. Based on English and Arabic tweets on X (formerly Twitter), this study explores how writers construct interpersonal meaning, authorial stance, and position the putative reader when discussing ChatGPT. A qualitative analysis of tweets about ChatGPT in both English and Arabic was conducted from the functional perspective of…
Digital learning transformation: A study of teachers’ post-Covid-19 experiences
The COVID-19 epidemic has caused learning to change in ways that have never been anticipated before. This article examines teachers' difficulties due to COVID-19's global return of students from various modes, settings, and locations to a regular educational system. Although there are more online options, face-to-face instruction might be more effective. The article attempts to envision education in a post-COVID-19 world, hoping that learning sys…
Exploring the Relationship Between Critical Thinking and Creativity in University Students: Gender Differences and the Assessment of Skills
This study aimed to explore the relationship between the critical thinking and creativity skills of university students. The objectives were to explore the level of critical thinking skills, the degree of creativity in students’ written exam papers, the nature of the relationship between these constructs, and gender differences in the manifestation of these skills in writing. A sample of 167 students, including 100 females and 67 males, from a co…
Bridging cultures through explicitation: A corpus-based analysis of bilingual literary translations
This study examines explicitation strategies in translated literary texts to determine their impact on the text’s clarity, style, and cultural representation. Focusing on how these shifts affect the explicitation shifts, the study analyzed two modern Urdu novels, La Hasil and Aks, and their English translations. Using TagAnt and UAM CorpusTool, the study examines approximately 30,000 words of each text to determine the frequency and function of e…
Trends and Gender Dynamics in Professional Certification Growth in Saudi Arabia
This study explores the trends and gender dynamics in professional certification growth in Saudi Arabia, a key driver of workforce development and economic transformation. While professional certifications are increasingly valued across various industries, there has been limited research exploring demographic trends and disparities in their attainment. Using publicly available data from the KSA Open Data Platform (n = 990), this study analyzes ce…
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works)