Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Title
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The JSC english language examination in Bangladesh: is it actually testing learners’ language skills
(BRAC University, 2019-04)Language tests have been a matter of concern in a country like Bangladesh where English is taught in isolation. The high stake tests tend to test language items discreetly without considering content embedded language ... -
L1 interference in L2 : a study from Bangladeshi perspective
(BRAC University, 2015-12)Language learning refers to learning a new language other than native language. In learning a new language learners often face interference of their native language. This paper describes how the researcher conducted a study ... -
Language as a tool for adapting to Bangladeshi culture
(BRAC University, 2016-11-30)Migration has become a common phenomenon as the world is being globalized day by day. Migration refers to shift from one country to another. This shifting makes the migrants learn the new language and cope with the new ... -
Language differences between the children who are brought up by mothers and those by caretakers in Dhaka City
(BRAC University, 2013-12-26)Language development is considered as a useful indicator of a child‘s overall development. It is the medium of a communication which helps to express the needs, thoughts and ideas of human being. Language is a communicating ... -
Language shift: the diverse factors responsible for the acceleration process in different communities
(BRAC University, 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 ... -
Learners’ foreign language speaking anxiety: a tertiary level scenario in EFL class
(BRAC University, 2014-12)This research is concerned with Bangladeshi learners’ anxiety of speaking English at tertiary level classrooms. In this paper, the researcher tried to find out the factors responsible for speaking anxiety of the learners, ... -
Learning style preferences of junior school students in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2014-08)The reason of this study was to identify the learning style preferences of English medium junior school students in Bangladesh. A questionnaire was administered to 500 randomly selected students from the five topmost English ... -
Learning to survive: African American women’s quest for their rights during the civil rights movement
(BRAC Univeristy, 2018-04)The twentieth century marked one of the greatest events in African American history as people fought for their rights which sparked the protest of the African American Civil Rights Movement of America. The African Americans ... -
Let down your hair Mrs. Maas: interpreting Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
(BRAC University, 2014-04)My paper examines the idea that in the novel The Crying of Lot 49, the obscure plot is mostly interpreted as the post modern adoption of a world famous fairytale Rapunzel. In The Crying of Lot 49, there is an odd sense ... -
Literature as a liberating space for 19th century women: a close reading of the selected works of Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte and Kate Chopin
(Brac University, 2019-12)This thesis fundamentally aims to look at the question of the potency of literature as a space through which women can assert their existence. Literature has been used as a force for social reformation and has been used ... -
Looking at Virginia Woolf: women and society
(BRAC University, 2015-08)This paper looks at two essays, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), of Virginia Woolf to study the position of English women living in the late nineteenth to first half of the twentieth century. These ... -
Madness and Women: A reading of three women's novels
(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
(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 ... -
Magical realism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
(Brac University, 2021-09)The term ‘magical realism’ is an amalgamation of oxymorons. The narrative mode allows you to discuss different perspectives on reality. The main object of this thesis is to do research study of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s ... -
Manipulation of human mind through the power of discourse: a study on Bangladeshi call center conversations
(BRAC University, 2016-03)This study focused on the power of discourse and how it is being used by the call center agents to manipulate human mind. The specific objectives of this study are: 1) to explore the usage of discourse in Bangladeshi call ... -
Marginalization of women in south asia: women novelists’ perspective
(BRAC University, 2014-08)This thesis looks into the position of women in three significant novels written in English by South Asian authors, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy ... -
A marxist reading of Fitzgerald’s Novel: The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned
(BRAC University, 2016-04)Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s great novels The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned are at the heart of my thesis. Tales of Romantic love and unfulfilled passion on the surface, these two novels are based on a capitalist ... -
Meaning communicated online chat
(BRAC University, 2015-12)The aim of this paper is to give a deeper look on how people perceive message, information correctly in online chats; in spite of the absence of non-verbal actions. Since people now-a-days are more into online chats rather ... -
Measuring the creativity of JSC graduates: A Bangladeshi perspective
(BRAC University, 2014-04-16)For a long time, Bangladeshi learners were accustomed to the so-called “rote-learning” system. However, in the primary and secondary education sectors, a creative curriculum has recently been introduced by the curriculum ... -
Media discourse: understanding the language of news
(BRAC University, 2016-11)Now-a -Days Media has become the main way of communication to reach the people. Media includes broadcasting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and online news etc. News is heart of media, and it develops ...