Farhan Ahmad
Biographic Data
| ID | 7499090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Farhan Ahmad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Farhan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmad |
| SIGNATURE | AHMAD F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5710-7800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Enhancing EFL Speaking Fluency Through TikTok
Aim. The emergence of short-video platforms, such as TikTok, has created new opportunities for integrating digital media into the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL). This study intends to examine how incorporating TikTok-based short-video activities improves speaking fluency among EFL students in Saudi university classrooms. Methods. In a quasi-experimental pre-mid-post design, 87 undergraduate learners were grouped into experimental…
AI-Mediated Speaking Instruction in Saudi EFL Classrooms
Artificial intelligence (AI) mediated speaking technologies are increasingly being integrated into English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction within Saudi educational contexts, where they are promoted as innovative tools for enhancing speaking pedagogy. Although their use is increasing, comprehensive and integrated evidence on their pedagogical features and effects on learner engagement remains limited and disorganized. This paper presents a…
Impact of Meta AI-Generated Corrective Feedback in the Writing Classroom
Previous research has explored the impact of corrective feedback provided by human instructors on the writing skills development of ESL/EFL (English as a second/foreign language) learners. There also has been a growing trend towards employing corrective feedback generated by Meta AI for the same pedagogical purposes. However, no studies to date have examined the effect of such feedback on reducing grammatical errors in English writing among langu…
Exploring Embodied Consciousness
This paper aims to investigate how Shafak constructs a literary space in which the rationality of science intersects with the emotive and sensorial dimensions of human life, revealing the complexity of embodied existence. Engaging with 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019) the study explores how the protagonist, Tequila Leila, negotiates personal trauma, memory, and identity through a framework that fuses neurological time with deep …
Artificial Intelligence in Saudi English Language Classrooms
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing English language learning, transforming the teachers’ approach to their pedagogy, engaging students more actively, and mentoring learning outcomes in Saudi Arabian EFL classrooms. This review examines how AI is currently being employed, assessing its applications, the readiness of institutions to adopt it, and the challenges it encounters, while also evaluating its impact on English language skills, stud…
Peer Mentoring in the Saudi EFL Context
Peer mentoring has increasingly been recognized as a valuable pedagogical approach in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context, particularly for enhancing student engagement and collaborative learning. The present study aims to examine Saudi EFL students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of peer mentoring in supporting language learning outcomes. To achieve this objective, a quantitative research design was employed, utilizing a structured Lik…
Rhizomatic Networks and Posthuman Agency in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees
Thesis. This study analyses Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees (2022) through an integrated theoretical framework of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s rhizome theory (1987) and contemporary posthumanist thought (Braidotti, 2013/2019). Concept. Posthumanism challenges anthropocentric epistemologies, emphasising relationality, multispecies entanglements, and decentred subjectivity. Rhizome theory, meanwhile, reconceptualises memory, identi…
Imperial Ideology and Narrative Complicity in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
This research examines how imperial and ideological power is stylistically recorded in Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness (2007) using a postcolonial stylistic framework. The study explores Conrad’s critique of empire while simultaneously revealing his inability to escape the confines of imperial ideology. The African characters are not portrayed as fully human, as they remain in the perpetual darkness. The narrative marginalizes Africans by…
Embodied Knowledge and Decolonial Resistance in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
This article offers a comparative analysis of the embodied knowledge and decolonial resistance articulated in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul (2007) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), using contemporary decolonial feminism (Lugones, 2010, 2016; Oyewumi, 2011), the coloniality of being (Maldonado-Torres, 2007, 2016; Mignolo, 2000), as well as feminist phenomenology and affect theory (Ahmed, 2014, 2017; Braidotti, 2018, 2019). …
Rooted Kinship and Storied Matter
This article analyzes Elif Shafak’s novel The Island of Missing Trees (2022) to articulate a stringent relational ontology and an ethics of coexistence that profoundly challenges anthropocentric and ethno-nationalist paradigms. Set against the backdrop of the Cypriot conflict and its diasporic aftermath, the novel foregrounds the interconnectedness between human identity, history, and the non-human world, primarily through the narrative voice of …
The Role of Metacognitive Strategies in Enhancing Communication and Cognitive Learning
This study endeavours to explore the role of metacognitive strategies in improving the process of communication and cognitive learning among students. Metacognitive strategies, a crucial set of cognitive skills for planning, controlling and assessing one's learning activities, are essential for developing higher mental processes and enhancing academic performance. This study delves into these strategies' real and potential applications in educati…
Emerging technologies in sharing economy
Emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, machine learning, big data, and the Internet of Things, play a pivotal role in sharing economy (SE) services. Empirical studies on the roles of these emerging technologies in SE are increasing. However, the existing studies are highly fragmented, and the current literature fails to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role these technologies play in SE. Employing A…
Disrupting discourses
Being a multifaceted nation, India is characterized by linguistic diversity, regional identities, and a vibrant tradition of political satire. The present study explores the emergence, evolution, and cultural and political implications of comedy that operates within local language and cultural contexts. It aims to analyse Indian vernacular stand-up comedy, and how it is used to highlight the native cultural absurdities and a tool of political res…
Critical Thinking and Pedagogy in the Indian Education System
Thesis. The study foregrounds reaffirming the essential requirement that students acquire critical thinking skills in order to question the political action around them, comprehend its contradictions and complexities, identify the shortcomings of mainstream solutionism, and consider their roles within power structures and change initiatives. Concept. This present study challenges and offers a framework for a critical-creative pedagogy that create…
Enhancing EFL Writing Proficiency through Peer Feedback
Aim. This research attempts to examine the use of peer feedback to enhance writing skills and reveal the changes in students' performance and attitudes before and after the tests. In the EFL context, writing is crucial to becoming proficient in syntax, grammar, and vocabulary as it assists learners in expressing their thoughts concisely and critically. Method. Peer feedback plays a pivotal role in developing writing skills among EFL learners by p…
Affiliations, Aversions and Assertions
The present study aims to investigate the nexus between memory, identity, and amnesia in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul. The proposed study will examine how collective amnesia inflicted by the state, aids in the erosion of historical memory of violence and inhumanity among its denizens. Memory of the past shapes a person’s life in a plethora of ways. It is a source of personal as well as collective identity. Memory travels across generatio…
Explaining technology migration against the change in terms of use
Purpose During the past few years, social media has faced the challenge of maintaining its user base. Reports show that the social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter experienced a decline in their users. Taking WhatsApp's recent change of its terms of use as the case of this study and using the push-pull-mooring model and a configurational perspective, this study aims to identify pathways for switching intentions. Design/methodology/approa…
Rethinking Grounds
Thesis. The paper highlights Anthropocene challenges during Covid-19 and student’s struggle. The Anthropocene is debatable because to its emphasis on human primacy and humanism, as well as the ways in which it conceals problematic aspects of human diversity, such as gender and cultural disparities, and the close ties that exist between people, technology and other creatures along with its relationship with migrations. Concept. A rising number of …
Incorporating Artificial Intelligence and Mall Strategies in EFL Classrooms
Aim. Pedagogical practices in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms are facing numerous challenges, experiencing artificial intelligence coming into classrooms across the globe. The present study aims to decipher the challenges pedagogues face in tackling the EFL classroom situation. The research explores the problems teachers face after introducing the artificial intelligence revolution in academia. Methods. The present study is devoted…
Cruelties of Occupation and Indignities of Dispossession
The proposed study explores the ways in which Abulhawa uses fiction to humanize the Palestinian condition of dispossession and displacement thus advancing the Palestinian perspective of the conflict. Analysing the important role of narratives in decolonizing the colonial imaginaries for example “Palestinians do not exist”, or “they are savages or terrorists”, it contends that, for Abulhawa, retrieving the Palestinian narrative is a fundamental pr…
Business management perspectives on the circular economy
Circular economy (CE) is an economic model designed to substitute the take-make-dispose linear economy with a regenerative system. Business management has a critical role in translating CE into practice. Extant management research on CE, while expanding rapidly, remains fragmented and lacks a holistic perspective. Through bibliographic coupling, a technique that identifies emergent research trends rather than past traditions in literature, we ana…
Drama approaches across higher education in the English curriculum
Drama may be a useful technique for improving pupils' language acquisition in any subject. Implementing such a strategy in an actual classroom setting could be a problem for any instructor or person. The idea behind this study was to establish whether using drama-based activities in pedagogy has any positive educational outcomes. The study used a quantitative technique, and included a specific section about students’ perspective on data collectio…
Gendering Women
Thesis. This study tends to show how various social, cultural, and institutional factors work to discipline women by controlling their bodies at on one level and their thought process at another level. Concept. The everyday life of women is a space in which the operation of power is manifested through various disciplinary techniques and punitive methods. The basis of such regulations is the result of the construction of gendered bodies. Results a…
Parched
Thesis. The current paper deals with the idea of sisterhood which has been represented in a Bollywood movie named Parched. The movie manifests sisterhood as a way to find solace and to get rid of confinement from the oppressive and suffocating society that tries to confine women within the four walls of the house. Concept. Sisterhood is an association, group, society, or community of women who are linked by common interests. This alliance became …
Adams Ableism, Style, and Visibility
The proposed study focuses on the shifting narratives around body, beauty, and desirability. The study highlights the way people with disabilities are represented and included in the fashion industry. This inclusion and visibility can be achieved by challenging the preconceived stereotypes of body, beauty, desirability, and style can play a crucial role in achieving this goal. The study foregrounds fashion as a significant inclusion practice.Conc…
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Process Drama as a Method of Pedagogy in ESL Classrooms
Aim. The present study intends to explore how process drama can be effectively used and implemented in Indian classrooms. It further highlights the aspects of the conventional classrooms and discusses why Indian students are lacking in productive skills of the English language and how it can be diagnosed through using the theory and practice of process drama as an instructional method. Concepts/Methods. Data collection method through a questionna…
Performative Retrieving of Tradition for Socio-Political Intervention
Theatre provides Dario Fo with a unique vantage point through which he vents out his thoughts on issues of class, justice, equality and lays bare in his performances that are comic, derisive, and outspoken people’s discomfort with the prevailing order. They are an indictment of the establishment’s perceived apathy and neglect of the oppressed groups. He does not let the zany spirit of his performances to overshadow his art but redirects it in a c…
Mocking and Making
Aim. The present study aims at foregrounding the importance of language and discourses advanced to suppress the voices of dissent and minorities. The subtle art of stimulating a psychologically suppressed identity or subjective violence is either through making or mocking historical facts, cultures, and human activities manifesting the concept of authoritarian democracy. Further, the aim of the study is to grasp the sense of constraints between u…
Adams Ableism, Style, and Visibility
The proposed study focuses on the shifting narratives around body, beauty, and desirability. The study highlights the way people with disabilities are represented and included in the fashion industry. This inclusion and visibility can be achieved by challenging the preconceived stereotypes of body, beauty, desirability, and style can play a crucial role in achieving this goal. The study foregrounds fashion as a significant inclusion practice.Conc…
Gender Roles and Perceptions
The present study analyses the gendered impact of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. If conflict has a certain bearing on men, so on women. It offers an insight into the experiences of women during the conflict and beyond, the loss of dignity and independence and how they grapple with all these issues. The study explores the ways Palestinian women are shaped by perpetual patriarchy and political power struggles. It tries to captur…
Performative retrieving of humour for socio-political subversion
With the particular focus on the Indian context, this paper attempts to study the genre of stand-up comedy as a form of creative resilience, by applying the theory of Fiske’s popular culture. Through the case study of select stand-up acts of comics like Rahul Dua, Saurav Mehta, Munawar Faruqui and Kunal Kamra, this paper analyzes English and Hindi satirical stand-up comedy in India. The papers also trace the evolution and differences between both…
Mapping out Liberating Traces of the Fun of Undisciplined Play
Aim. The present study primarily engages with graffiti as a tactic of the weak who find pleasure in scandalising the dominant discourse. The prime focus here will be on the pleasure as resistance, on the construction of an alternative space into the dominant space, and on the multiple forms of evasive and resisting techniques through which the subordinate asserts their power. Thus, Graffiti can be read as a popular text, a signifying construct of…
Dario Fo
Aim. The proposed study examines the subversive polemics of Fo’s theatre which serves as a catalyst for social, political and cultural change. It aims to foreground the revolutionary politics of Fo who uses theatre to combat the oppressive system bringing to fore the working-class struggle for a classless society. The present study will be done with the help of the analysis of Fo’s select plays. These plays will be interpreted using the Gramscian…
Cruelties of Occupation and Indignities of Dispossession
The proposed study explores the ways in which Abulhawa uses fiction to humanize the Palestinian condition of dispossession and displacement thus advancing the Palestinian perspective of the conflict. Analysing the important role of narratives in decolonizing the colonial imaginaries for example “Palestinians do not exist”, or “they are savages or terrorists”, it contends that, for Abulhawa, retrieving the Palestinian narrative is a fundamental pr…
Business management perspectives on the circular economy
Circular economy (CE) is an economic model designed to substitute the take-make-dispose linear economy with a regenerative system. Business management has a critical role in translating CE into practice. Extant management research on CE, while expanding rapidly, remains fragmented and lacks a holistic perspective. Through bibliographic coupling, a technique that identifies emergent research trends rather than past traditions in literature, we ana…
Drama approaches across higher education in the English curriculum
Drama may be a useful technique for improving pupils' language acquisition in any subject. Implementing such a strategy in an actual classroom setting could be a problem for any instructor or person. The idea behind this study was to establish whether using drama-based activities in pedagogy has any positive educational outcomes. The study used a quantitative technique, and included a specific section about students’ perspective on data collectio…
Gendering Women
Thesis. This study tends to show how various social, cultural, and institutional factors work to discipline women by controlling their bodies at on one level and their thought process at another level. Concept. The everyday life of women is a space in which the operation of power is manifested through various disciplinary techniques and punitive methods. The basis of such regulations is the result of the construction of gendered bodies. Results a…
Parched
Thesis. The current paper deals with the idea of sisterhood which has been represented in a Bollywood movie named Parched. The movie manifests sisterhood as a way to find solace and to get rid of confinement from the oppressive and suffocating society that tries to confine women within the four walls of the house. Concept. Sisterhood is an association, group, society, or community of women who are linked by common interests. This alliance became …
Affiliations, Aversions and Assertions
The present study aims to investigate the nexus between memory, identity, and amnesia in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul. The proposed study will examine how collective amnesia inflicted by the state, aids in the erosion of historical memory of violence and inhumanity among its denizens. Memory of the past shapes a person’s life in a plethora of ways. It is a source of personal as well as collective identity. Memory travels across generatio…
Explaining technology migration against the change in terms of use
Purpose During the past few years, social media has faced the challenge of maintaining its user base. Reports show that the social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter experienced a decline in their users. Taking WhatsApp's recent change of its terms of use as the case of this study and using the push-pull-mooring model and a configurational perspective, this study aims to identify pathways for switching intentions. Design/methodology/approa…
Rethinking Grounds
Thesis. The paper highlights Anthropocene challenges during Covid-19 and student’s struggle. The Anthropocene is debatable because to its emphasis on human primacy and humanism, as well as the ways in which it conceals problematic aspects of human diversity, such as gender and cultural disparities, and the close ties that exist between people, technology and other creatures along with its relationship with migrations. Concept. A rising number of …
Incorporating Artificial Intelligence and Mall Strategies in EFL Classrooms
Aim. Pedagogical practices in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms are facing numerous challenges, experiencing artificial intelligence coming into classrooms across the globe. The present study aims to decipher the challenges pedagogues face in tackling the EFL classroom situation. The research explores the problems teachers face after introducing the artificial intelligence revolution in academia. Methods. The present study is devoted…
The Role of Metacognitive Strategies in Enhancing Communication and Cognitive Learning
This study endeavours to explore the role of metacognitive strategies in improving the process of communication and cognitive learning among students. Metacognitive strategies, a crucial set of cognitive skills for planning, controlling and assessing one's learning activities, are essential for developing higher mental processes and enhancing academic performance. This study delves into these strategies' real and potential applications in educati…
Emerging technologies in sharing economy
Emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, machine learning, big data, and the Internet of Things, play a pivotal role in sharing economy (SE) services. Empirical studies on the roles of these emerging technologies in SE are increasing. However, the existing studies are highly fragmented, and the current literature fails to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role these technologies play in SE. Employing A…
Disrupting discourses
Being a multifaceted nation, India is characterized by linguistic diversity, regional identities, and a vibrant tradition of political satire. The present study explores the emergence, evolution, and cultural and political implications of comedy that operates within local language and cultural contexts. It aims to analyse Indian vernacular stand-up comedy, and how it is used to highlight the native cultural absurdities and a tool of political res…
Critical Thinking and Pedagogy in the Indian Education System
Thesis. The study foregrounds reaffirming the essential requirement that students acquire critical thinking skills in order to question the political action around them, comprehend its contradictions and complexities, identify the shortcomings of mainstream solutionism, and consider their roles within power structures and change initiatives. Concept. This present study challenges and offers a framework for a critical-creative pedagogy that create…
Enhancing EFL Writing Proficiency through Peer Feedback
Aim. This research attempts to examine the use of peer feedback to enhance writing skills and reveal the changes in students' performance and attitudes before and after the tests. In the EFL context, writing is crucial to becoming proficient in syntax, grammar, and vocabulary as it assists learners in expressing their thoughts concisely and critically. Method. Peer feedback plays a pivotal role in developing writing skills among EFL learners by p…
Enhancing EFL Speaking Fluency Through TikTok
Aim. The emergence of short-video platforms, such as TikTok, has created new opportunities for integrating digital media into the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL). This study intends to examine how incorporating TikTok-based short-video activities improves speaking fluency among EFL students in Saudi university classrooms. Methods. In a quasi-experimental pre-mid-post design, 87 undergraduate learners were grouped into experimental…
AI-Mediated Speaking Instruction in Saudi EFL Classrooms
Artificial intelligence (AI) mediated speaking technologies are increasingly being integrated into English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction within Saudi educational contexts, where they are promoted as innovative tools for enhancing speaking pedagogy. Although their use is increasing, comprehensive and integrated evidence on their pedagogical features and effects on learner engagement remains limited and disorganized. This paper presents a…
Impact of Meta AI-Generated Corrective Feedback in the Writing Classroom
Previous research has explored the impact of corrective feedback provided by human instructors on the writing skills development of ESL/EFL (English as a second/foreign language) learners. There also has been a growing trend towards employing corrective feedback generated by Meta AI for the same pedagogical purposes. However, no studies to date have examined the effect of such feedback on reducing grammatical errors in English writing among langu…
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