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Audiovisual material in language teaching: Learners’ perspective
(BRAC University, 2014-05)
In order to teach listening and speaking skills to second language learners, video is considered to be a very effective instrument. Video clips provide learners with real use of the target language enabling them to see the ...
Phonological patterns in standard colloquial Bangla and Netrokona Dialect
(BRAC University, 2014-04)
Bangla language has a number of dialects which vary in great degree in their phonology. Netrokona district is situated in the north east area of Bangladesh. This cross sectional study was done to describe and analyze the ...
Representation of women in electronic visual media: Bangladeshi context
(BRAC University, 2014-12)
Stereotyping based on gender is a very common phenomenon around the world since early days of civilization. Physical difference might be the basic reason of male-female division, but the distinction evolved into an ideological ...
Influence of digital social media in writing and speaking of tertiary level student
(BRAC University, 2014-04)
The creation of digital social media has brought a huge change among the people of 20th
century. This new technology carries much weight as a new medium for students and also for
the educators to build social connections. ...
Code switching in face-book by Bangladeshi face-book users
(BRAC University, 2014-08)
This research paper aims to find out the motivation behind code switching in Facebook statuses and their replies by Bangladeshi Facebook users. The occurrence of code switching in Facebook is regular. But the type of code ...
Impact of podcast on listening skills of the students of higher secondary level
(BRAC University, 2014-12)
Language learning process is no longer confined to books and pages; rather computers have been added to the field of education. In Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) teachers can ―challenge the traditional teaching ...
Deconstructing the marginalized female: a reading of Mahasweta Devi’s short stories
(BRAC University, 2014-12)
Women’s positions in society, particularly those of marginalized/ peripheral ones positions are very preoccupied with the sense of docility and negligence. Marginalized1
1 The word ‘Marginalized’ used as the substitute ...
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, ...
Chakma language : survival from being extinct in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2014-12)
At present days, the world is marked by a discrepancy in language development. Language loss has become a common phenomenon throughout the world. There were almost 50,000 languages and among them only 10,000 languages ...
Swift’s use of satire in Gulliver’s Travels
(BRAC University, 2014-04)
Most works of literature contain the writers' ideas; often including their social criticism. One of the most prominent forms used to bring reform or change in the society or in individuals is that of satire. Satire can be ...