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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 ... -
Language, literature, education and community: the Bengali muslim woman in the early twentieth century
(© 2014 Elsevier Ltd., 2014)The issue of women's empowerment has a long history. This article intends to trace the issue of women's empowerment in the area that now forms contemporary Bangladesh. In this regard, we have delved into the early part of ... -
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 feature writing: experiences from The Daily Star
(BRAC University, 2014-12)Keeping with my concentration, I choose “The Star magazine” of The Daily Star to commence my internship, where I could meet both my interest and academic knowledge. I joined “The Star Magazine” as an intern feature writer ... -
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 the cosmoses of digital media at The Tech Academy
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Learning through the curves of journalism at New Age
(BRAC University, 2017-04)The following report is a personal reflection of my internship at New Age through which I have documented the process and progress of the three-month long internship at this daily. It includes my tasks, challenges and my ... -
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 ... -
The lens of Print Media Journalism in “Op-ed” and “Editorial” section at The Daily Observer
(Brac University, 2021-05-20)This internship has been completed by joining three months internship program in The Daily Observer. The main purpose of this internship is to observe the application of theoretical knowledge into a practical one. The ... -
Lessons learned from COVID-19 for a blended language learning model: tertiary level students’ preferences for online synchronous and asynchronous learning
(Brac University, 2022-12)Education during the pandemic was challenging at many levels, but amidst the crisis, educational administrators worked hard in implementing a curriculum which is quite heavily reliant on computer-assisted language learning ... -
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 ... -
The linguistic development of children with cerebral palsy
(BRAC University, 2013-04)Children of CP (Cerebral Palsy) undergo reasonable delay in the acquisition of language along with some other acquisitions such as logical reasoning, motor ability, etc. The focus of this research paper is to observe the ... -
Literature as a lens: examining racial injustice in America through African American texts
(Brac University, 2024-01)The paper explores how the contemporary problems of the black community mirror those of the old ones. It uses African American literature to find a connection between problems from years or decades ago and the ones currently ... -
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 ... -
Love, longing and commemoration: a study of Chakma culture through the Ubogeet
(Brac University, 2021-05)Bangladesh is home to more than forty-five indigenous groups who are mostly located in the north (east and west), the south and southeast regions of the country. The Chittagong Hill Tracts is home to nearly 70% of the ... -
Mackay revisited: the case of Javanese-Australian Muslims, 1880-1999
(© 2007 Scalabrini Migration Center., 2007)The development of Queensland's sugar industry in the nineteenth century led to an influx of non-European laborers, such as Melanesians, Cingalese and Javanese. Years later, under the Immigration Restriction Act, 1901, ...