"Introduction:" In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationships between the variables that related the reading skills of the students and the variables related to the opportunities that the student, family, and the school have. Variables related to students' reading skills (reading skills scores/PV1READ, perception of competence…

This paper examines the cultural implications of Gothic-themed lexemes in English and Uzbek, emphasizing their linguistic structures and semiotic meanings as well as educational implications. We have tried to do a comparative linguistic analysis to investigate lexemes from literary texts, dictionaries, and cultural studies, revealing their…

Turkism is an intellectual movement that emphasizes the history, culture, language and national identity of the Turkish nation. The concept of Turkism in social studies lessons has an important place in terms of students learning their historical origins, national values and cultural heritage. This concept is especially used as an effective tool…

The anthropocentric direction of modern linguistic research is of particular interest when studying animal tales. It highlights the importance of considering specific categories of verbal signs that shape ethnocultural marking and the worldview characteristics of an ethnic group. This study aimed to analyze animal tales using animalistic…

This study examines the cultural meaning of names denoting places such as mountains, water objects, and settlements. The study drew evidence from a famous Kazakh epos, "Kozy Korpesh -- Bayan Sulu," to provide insight into how epic toponyms contribute to the explication of culture. The study addressed the motives and methods of the…

National brands of the Kazakh people are insufficiently researched based on the special criteria for defining the concept of a brand from a scientific perspective. This article is relevant in this context. Interest in branding and its formation is a topic staying relevant. It is a driving force behind globalization and international competition.…

In 2023, a small team undertook a series of interviews and yarns with staff, students and families at the remote community of Yiyili in the central Kimberley. The case study formed part of a much larger study which sought to understand why attendance rates in remote Aboriginal schools have fallen over recent years, to unpack a whole raft of…

Ethnomathematics research has developed globally, with significant contributions from various countries, especially from Indonesia. Indonesia has diversity and cultural richness that offers opportunities to strengthen its education system, especially in improving mathematical literacy by connecting learning materials with daily activities and…

Understanding employability for Maori, the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), is an under researched area. The dominant Western culture, structures and practices in university and industries within NZ have obscured Maori presence and limited Maori student's expression of their own cultural identity. The current employment environment…

Syrian refugees worldwide experience many difficulties, including integrating into the host country. Turkey host most of the Syrian refugees, but limited studies examined Syrian refugees' transnational experiences in children's literature. In this study, I have examined the picture books written for Syrian refugee children published in Turkey…

One of the cultural outcomes of the Madurese community is the traditional "tanean lanjang" house with a long front yard, designed from several "batih" (nuclear) families, consisting of a married couple with unmarried children. This study explores geometric concepts of the traditional house to demonstrate how they can be useful…

This article is a preliminary study that aims to provide a theoretical review of the use of proverbs as a metaphor in solution-focused brief counseling (SFBC) approach, and to provide a framework for school counselors. The method used is a narrative literature review of several main themes; proverbs in counseling, the concept of metaphor, and the…

At a time when "difference" is being actively diluted in the service of standardisation and conservative views of nationhood, stories about difference, and their semiotic and multimodal elements, provide rich grounds for critical engagement. This is especially the case with stories about highly visible cultural symbols, such as the…

When a text represents both language and culture codes, linguacultural lexicography and phraseological phenomena need to be examined. The current study utilized a qualitative research design with a linguacultural and historical approach to examine Ahmed Yasawi's "Diwani Hikmet," a collection of Sufi poetry of the medieval period. A…

Tikal, notably conservative in culture among its peer polities, maintains that tendency in the case of monumental texts. In this dissertation I draw on a corpus of Late Classic monuments (ca. AD 600-900) to argue, through analysis of morphological forms, that scribal tradition at Tikal was not only conservative but intentionally so. Literacy…