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  • Culture sensitivity and language learning: a tertiary level scenarion 
    Hasan, Lumma Maisha (Department of English and Humanities, 2011-07)
    This study is concerned with the existing methods and approaches that are in action at the tertiary level. It attempts to assess the suitability of the current methods that are used in different private universities of ...
  • Depiction of modern civilization in Yeats, Williams, Pound and Elliot 
    Sharmin, Farheena (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2010-08)
    Modernism is a remarkable shift from the traditional forms of writing in English literature. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), Ezra Pound (1885-1927) and Thomas Steams Eliot (1888-1965) ...
  • Dialects of Brahmanbaria and Sylhet: a linguistic analysis 
    Nabila, Sailo (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-12-10)
    This paper is concerned with the comparison of the dialects of Brahmanbaria and Sylhet investigating their linguistics features. To draw the comparison, I have used two types of questions which include selected sets of ...
  • Difficulties and challenges in implementing CLT in Bangladesh 
    Mehtab, Shabnam (Department of English and humanities, BRAC University, 2012-04)
    Communicative Language Teaching has been introduced in language teaching in 1970's as a new language method . Since then it is being practiced worldwide. Even in our country NCTB (National Curriculum and Textbook Board) ...
  • Difficulties and challenges in implementing CLT In Bangladesh 
    Mehtab, Shabnam (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2012-04)
    Communicative Language Teaching has been introduced in language teaching in 1970's as a new language method . Since then it is being practiced worldwide. Even in our country NCTB (National Curriculum and Textbook Board) ...
  • Do Pre-reading activities help learners comprehend a text better? 
    Haque, Md. Mesbahul (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2010-12)
    Teachers who are teaching English as second language are in a regular search of various strategies that may develop learners reading comprehension skill. Activation of prior knowledge before reading the actual material is ...
  • Do we need literary texts in language classroom? An investigation on students' perceptions 
    Zerin, Samia (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2009-04)
    In Bangladeshi English language teaching situation, literary texts are not highly valued. There are several misconceptions regarding the use of literary texts to teach language and this paper has examined this issue from ...
  • The effect of culture on productive skills 
    Akhter, Nazma (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2008-08)
    This research helps to discover some of the interesting findings of a survey conducted to determine how culture of students affects in learning their second language. This research attempts to determine, how culture of ...
  • Emergence of the colonizer and the colonized in three texts: William Shakespeare's the tempest , Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: or, the royal slave and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe 
    Nehar, Nowshin (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2006-11)
    Colonization is a practice of power and domination, which defines the subjugation of one people to another. It gives rise two inseparable groups of people- the colonizer and the colonized. Postcolonial critics Edward Said ...
  • Error correction in English composition class : A comparative study of Bangla medium and english medium school 
    Islam, Farha Binte (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-08)
    In Bangladesh, both the Bangla medium schools and English medium schools follow different methods, different approaches and also follow different strategies for teaching the target language. The hypothesis of this paper ...
  • Evaluation of testing english language: secondary examination of Bangladesh 
    Liza, Farzana Sharmin (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-08)
  • Evaluation of testing english language: secondary examination of Bangladesh 
    Ziauddin, Shenin (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-08-12)
    English is the compulsory subject in both secondary and higher secondary level. So, to get admission in the college a student needs to pass in both English 1st paper and 2nd paper in SSC examination. Unfortunately in most ...
  • An evaluation of the reading skills of English of the students of class ten in Bengali medium schools 
    Dey, Srabonty (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2007-04)
    This thesis aims at evaluating the English Reading Skills of students of class ten in two Bengali Medium schools in Dhaka. It tries to identify both the strengths and weaknesses of reading skills of English with a view to ...
  • An evaluation of the tasks of IX-X textbook "English for Today": An empirical study 
    Zishnu, Zahin Antara (Department of English and Humanities, 2011-07)
    The objective of this study is to evaluate the tasks in the English textbook currently used in classes IX and X of Secondary Schools in Bangladesh. It attempts to find out if the tasks are communicative as claimed in the ...
  • An experience with ekushey dupur 
    Jahan, Afroz (Department of English and humanities, BRAC University, 2012-04)
    I leant lots of things during my intership period. In my report i want to focus on the technical aspects of the live programs how a live program telecast, the difficulties of the live programs, and limitation of the live ...
  • The fairy tales of oscar wilde and the gain of suffering 
    Islam, Durba (Department of English and humanities, BRAC University, 2012-04)
    This thesis aims to study the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde and draw a conclusion as to why he incorporated so much pain, suffering, sadness and death in his stories. In other words, my aim was to study the "gain of suffering ...
  • The formation of the African American community in the United States 
    Ahmed, Fatema Johera (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-12)
    The literature of the Diaspora is particularly interesting in the contemporary world as more and more people come to find themselves voluntarily or involuntarily displaced. Displacement is the material reality of ...
  • Identifying women's position: exploring time, space and sexuality in Amitav Ghosh's novels 
    Sanzum, Tausif (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2012-12)
    This paper aims to go on a journey along with the female characters in Amitav Ghosh's novels. The different destinations in the journey will be first and foremost a woman's position in historical context, her role in the ...
  • The impact of anxiety on the academic assessment 
    Mukeet, Fazle (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2011-12)
    There are significant differences between the performance and competence of the students learning English language. During examination some students do not perform according to their competence. These differences arise ...
  • The impact of intelligence on second language acquisition 
    Chowdhury, Tanzeel (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2010-12)
    Learners of second language possess different characteristics that make them different from each other. Intelligence is one of these characteristics, which is considered to affect the acquisition of formal structure of a ...

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