Thesis, B.A. (English): Recent submissions
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The impact of high-stake English examination saystem of Bangladesh on students' oral English skills: a qualitative study
(Brac University, 2024-01)This study examines the high-stake English examination system of Bangladesh and its impact on students’ oral English skills. Every year a lot of students in Bangladesh participate in high-stake exams such as S.S.C, H.S.C ... -
Challenges and prospects of teaching English to the children with low visual impairment in special schools of Dhaka
(Brac University, 2024-01)The rate of dropping people with lower vision has decreased by 35% over 20 years according to the article of “The Business Standard ''. Though the rate is decreasing, the rate of educating these people is not increasing ... -
Effectiveness of blended learning approach in English language learning in the tertiary-level context of Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2022-01)Blended learning is a combined learning approach of both online and offline features of learning. Though, in the current Bangladeshi context, online learning has gained popularity, it has some disadvantages too which ... -
Tracing the trajectory of magical realism in Bangladeshi literature
(Brac University, 2024-05)Magical realism is a popular literary genre that suits both postcolonialism and postmodernism. Many countries, including Bangladesh, have contributed to this genre because of its postcolonial characteristics of making ... -
Jean Rhys`s Wide Sargasso Sea as a “Writing Back” Of Charlotte Brontë`s Jane Eyre
(Brac University, 2024-02)A number of authors from countries which were previously colonised, came up with the intention of responding to the European canonical texts through their own writings in the postcolonial era. This thesis will analyse ... -
Interdisciplinary theorization of subjugated identities under demystified despotisms
(Brac University, 2024-06)“Interdisciplinary Theorization of Subjugated Identities under Demystified Despotisms” investigates subjugation and the formation of subject identities under various forms of despotism over more than a century. By classifying ... -
Vivian's Hyde
(Brac University, 2024-04)The novelette is centered on a female private investigator in a dystopian city, who is deeply haunted by the atrocities of her past. The main lead faces her past through a sequence of nightmares that particularly do not ... -
Early syntactic development of a Bangla speaking child: a case study
(Brac University, 2024-01)This research was aimed to reveal the syntactic progression of a child who speaks Bangla. It also tried to find out the Bangla structural error in the child utterances. To carry out the study, a Bangla speaking child was ... -
A critical discourse analysis of Bangladeshi political Language
(Brac University, 2023-01)The main goal of political discourse analysis is to figure out what the text is really trying to see. The study wants to analyse the political speech of Bangladesh from a critical point of view. The study also wants ... -
Teaching English at rural secondary schools of Bangladesh: Facilitating or disadvantaging?
(Brac University, 2021-01)This research aims at digging up the barriers and facilities of English teaching at rural secondary schools in Bangladesh. In a country like Bangladesh, the rural areas are deprived of different opportunities and facilities ... -
Challenges and opportunities of completing undergraduate education online: Narrative study of public and private university students in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2022-05)The arrival of COVID-19 pandemic brought significant changes in all aspects of human life since everything came to a standstill. For maintaining social distance and safeguarding individual’s lives, soon the educational ... -
Online assessment and feedback in developing students’ productive language skills: A tertiary level study in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2022-05-15)This study aims to explore the fruitfulness of assessment and feedback online in measuring tertiary level students’ productive language skills and the student-teacher perceptions on this issue. To achieve the study, ... -
A critical analysis of the English language questions of BCS examination
(Brac University, 2021)Job examinations are a valuable part of a person’s career. It shows his/her knowledge and skill and helps the examiners to select the best candidates. As a result, numerous researches have been done to improve the quality ... -
Fundamentalism and censorship in South Asia: Mass misapprehension of Nasrin, Murugan & Rushdie
(Brac University, 2022-01)Religious Fundamentalism and censorship in South Asia have incapacitated progressive authors like Taslima Nasrin, Salman Rushdie and Perumal Murugan resulting in a restricted dystopia deterring freedom of thought. Mass ... -
Poetic beauty & simplicity of Jibanananda Das from reader’s perspective
(Brac University, 2024-01)Folk tales or mythical stories are not the only part of Bengali literature. Bengali literature has been more versatile and enriched since the ancient period. Through the hands of Bengal's tremendous poets and writers, ... -
Ayi Kwei Armah: through the lens of an ‘Engaged Writer'
(Brac University, 2024-01)After publishing the first novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Ayi Kwei Armah, a Ghanaian novelist was embroiled into controversy because of his outspoken nature that challenges the conventional African ... -
Intersecting feminism: gender, identity, and liberation in their eyes were watching God and The God of Small Things
(Brac University, 2023-12)Women are not given their due social rights from time immemorial. To investigate the deplorable condition of women, two novels of different social contexts, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The God ... -
Breaking borders: navigating gender norms and realities in Ali’s Brick Lane and Desai’s fasting feasting
(Brac University, 2024-01)Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting are contemporary novels representing the condition of South Asian women both as insiders and as outsiders. As South Asian women writers, both of the novels are ... -
Lifelong learning skills and its outcome among Bangladeshi English graduate students
(Brac University, 2023-12)This study examined the impact of lifelong learning skills on the academic and professional outcomes of English graduates in Bangladesh. The study employed a qualitative research methodology and select a cohort of six ... -
War and suicide: a comparative analysis of Yukio Mishima and Ernest Hemingway in the context of existentialism and Emile Durkheim’s Study of Suicide
(Brac University, 2024-01)Literature reflects its time and serves as a time capsule that encompasses pivotal experiences of the world and society. This paper will focus on an important timeline in human history and that would be the two World Wars, ...
