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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 ...
The impact of seating arrangement on students learning in secondary schools

Roy, Josephine (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2012-12-13)

This dissertation illustrates about the existing seating arrangements in the schools of Bangladesh which are believed to play a constructive role in fostering students' learning in the classrooms. By investigating from ...
Importance of applying multiple intelligence theory in Bangladeshi schools

Hossain, Imona (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-08)

This paper focuses on the importance of multiple intelligence theory in Bangladeshi schools. In Bangladesh most of the schools does not have a MI theory based education system. A lot of teachers support an MI theory based ...
The "In-Between": Caribbean and the white creole in Jean Rys's wide sargasso sea and Phyllis Allfrey's the Orchid house

Habib, Sarah (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-12)

The question of identity has long been an impending issue in the branch of Caribbean post-colonial discourses, and many attempts have been taken in defining and theorizing the identity of peoples occupying the Caribbean ...
In between cultures and identities : Reflections on multiculturism in Diaspora literature

Islam, Rashida Ahmed (Department of English and Humanities, 2011-08)

In a bid to elaborate on the topic as to how diasporic South Asian and Caribbean writers are creating and reshaping the boundaries of literary texts, I wish to put forward my thesis as a continual process where a few notable ...
Influence of L1 literacy in learning L2 on the students of secondary level in Bangladesh

Rubayet, Muhammed (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-12-13)

The research attempts to find out which methods does show that L 1 literacy actually helps to promote L2 literacy . The focus of the study would be writing as there are not much works available in writing . Moreover, ...
Influence of peers' feedback on the students of tertiary level in second language learning

Akhter, Mahmuda (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2009-12)

This research attempts to find out which type of feedback is more influential on students at the tertiary level. Both teacher’ and peers’ feedback are important for second language learning but the influence by peer’s ...
Instrumental motivation appears tobe more effective and more powerful in facilitating second language learning in comparison with integrative motivation

Khair, Tahia (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2008-12)

This study is aimed to determine that Instrumental motivation is more effective than integrative motivation. This research was actually done to verify that here in Bangladesh instrumental motivation works more. Motivation ...
Interdependency of language and social views : A study of women's social position in a Bangla Speech Community

Neogi, Prama (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-08)

Works of many feminists, linguistis and sociologists have suggested the notion that all languages are man-made and man-driven to carry out the male agenda, and it plays a role in creating and maintaining a certain social ...
It's the economy, stupid : contemporary postmedern fiction and its capitalist roots

Amin, Sanam (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2008-09)
Language shift: the diverse factors responsible for the acceleration process in different communities

Kabir, Niamul (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC Unviersity, 2012-08-12)

This research attempts to find out the diverse factors accelerating the process of language shift in different communities. There are some social, economic and political factors that lead a community to shift from using ...
Madness and Women: A reading of three women's novels

Islam, Sonika (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2010-12)

The state of madness is often associated with women. This paper will try to reveal the situations which drive a woman into mental imbalance. Three phases of female life are explored here- adolescence, youth and middle-age ...
Magic realism: Mingling of fantasy and reality, tragedy and comedy in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's one hundred years of solitude and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children

Sultana, Salma (Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2009-08)

Stories are always fascinating to every walk of life, but stories with magical or fantastical elements with of fairies or ghosts always amuse people. However, being a student of literature, I got an opportunity to look ...

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