Impact of American Literature on Behaviour of the Students of Public Sector Colleges of Kotli AJ&K

Authors

  • Dr. Arshad Mehmood Department of English Women University of AJ&K Bagh, Pakistan
  • Shabina Rashid Department of English University of Kotli, Pakistan
  • Dr Muhammad Asghar Ali Department of Education Women University of AJ&K Bagh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21015/vtess.v11i2.1548

Abstract

The study investigates the impact of American literature taught to the students of Intermediate 1st year from their Book 1 syllabus at Public sector colleges of Kotli Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Most of the themes of the syllabus are established on tolerance, mutual respect, sacrifice and love for humanity, and this is hypothesized that key elements of the literature put positive impact on the behaviour of the learners.  In this respect, the students of 1st year were selected to discover the impact of American literature on their social attitudes. To validate the research endeavour, 500 male students and 210 female students were selected from 20 public sector colleges of Kotli as a sample by using convenient sampling technique. Close-ended questionnaire was used as the tool of data collection which was developed on five-point Likert Scale. To determine the validity of the research tool, the value of internal consistency (Cronbach Alpha) was found 0.823. The obtained data was analysed through simple statistical tools. The findings indicate that the students showed lack of tolerance and forgiveness to others which is an indication that some other factors are influencing their social attitude. Moreover, they represented excessive self- priority and at a greater scale, they justified their personal point of view instead of giving a proportionate space to others.

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2023-06-30

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Mehmood, D. A., Rashid, S., & Ali, D. M. A. (2023). Impact of American Literature on Behaviour of the Students of Public Sector Colleges of Kotli AJ&K. VFAST Transactions on Education and Social Sciences, 11(2), 157–166. https://doi.org/10.21015/vtess.v11i2.1548

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023): April-June

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