Thesis, B.A. (English): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Gender and speech style: context Bangladesh
(BRAC Univeristy, 2018-04)This study attempts to analyze conversation and find out if gender influences speech style in Bangladesh. Here, the focus is on, politeness, interruptions (the way speakers change, switch topics and speaker control), ... -
Narratives of disjuncture: women garment workers of Bangladesh and sexuality in literature and social sciences
(BRAC Univeristy, 2018-01)The women garment workers of Bangladesh figure highly in our national consciousness. They are undoubtedly the women of the nation. From social sciences to economics to media, their presence is everywhere. They are ... -
Impact of Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) in promoting ESL learners’ reading comprehensibility and skills: students’ and teachers’ perceptions
(BRAC University, 2017-12)The paper documents on the learners’ and teachers’ attitudes, preferences and priorities in technological implementation in the ESL reading context of Bangladesh. The research is conducted among 3 Government-based Bangla ... -
Development of productive tense inflections in bangla speaking pre-school children
(BRAC University, 2017-12)This research attempts to investigate the relation between age and productivity of tense inflections of typically developing Bangla speaking pre-school children. Data has been collected from speech samples of 30 children ... -
Humans trapped in bureaucracy: a study of Franz Kafka’s depiction of the modern man
(BRAC University, 2017-12)Franz Kafka is one of the greatest writers of twentieth century who explores the complexity of bureaucracy in his literary works. His novels and short stories show the crisis of modern man through anguished characters have ... -
The application of CLT in literature class at Bangla medium secondary level schools in Bangladesh: a shift from traditional method (GTM) to communicative approach (CLT)
(BRAC University, 2017-12-06)From the very beginning of English literature learning, students have been learning literature in traditional methods especially in GTM, where teachers only read out and analyze the story, poems, novel etc. and students ... -
The self versus institutions in J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey
(BRAC University, 2017-12)This dissertation seeks to observe textual comparison and analysis of the adolescent protagonists of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey which indicate the social change of America during the twentieth ... -
From ‘Fallen woman’ to ‘New woman’ in victorian novels: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Bronte & Kate Chopin
(BRAC University, 2017-12)Pedagogical assumptions of feminism have made great strides over time and after passing through three waves have today reached a point where women can claim to have sovereign identities as members of a society independent ... -
An exploration of Mary Wollstonecraft’s writings: Mary, a fiction and letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
(BRAC University, 2017-12)Mary Wollstonecraft (1756-1796) is the pioneer of western feminist tradition,whose influence crossed all national boundaries. As a popular feminist writer, Mary Wollstonecraft has been very influential in her writings as ... -
Aspects of technology as distractions while teaching in a classroom : classroom management reflection, teachers' and students' perception
(BRAC University, 2017-12-06)This paper on Technology as Distractions while teaching in a Classroom contains all over the views scenarios and solutions as per the suggestions. Even in this paper here it was reviewed about the distractions of using ... -
Different types of teaching techniques used by teachers in ESL speaking classroom: focus on secondary level Bangla medium students of Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2017-04)Teaching technique is the way that every teachers use to create an effective English class. Different teachers have their own techniques and perform accordingly. The paper deals with the creation of various techniques and ... -
A comparison on the present scenario of CLT in both Bangla Medium School and English Medium School
(BRAC University, 2017-04)The topic of my dissertation is “A comparison on the present scenario o f CLT in Both Bangla Medium School and English Medium School. It tries to inspect about the implementation of CLT in both mediums. In addition, it ... -
Digital poetry: reading Jim Andrews’ “Seattle Drift” and “Arteroids”
(BRAC University, 2017-04)Digital technology is reshaping literature and literary creativity. Digitisation of traditional texts is a common practice now, and reading digitally is widely deemed as convenient and time effective. While such changing ... -
Speaking anxiety of english language learners in Bangladeshi tertiary classroom
(BRAC University, 2017-03)In the context of verbal English communication in Bangladesh, Bengali medium students always struggle due to their lack of exposure to communicative English language context. The rigid Grammar Translation curriculum at ... -
Postmodern worldview: the depiction of our time in Don DeLillo, Will Self and Salman Rushdie
(BRAC University, 2017-04-06)Postmodernism is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary world. It embraces various kinds of approaches to art making. It is a mixture of different artistic and popular styles and media. The term “postmodernism” ... -
History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
(BRAC University, 2017-04)The aim of this paper is to examine how postmodern novels self-consciously synchronize history in fiction. To be more precise, how and why history has been used in metafictional dimension as a postmodern discourse. In order ... -
To create a positive learning environment teachers have to come out from their authoritative role: classroom management
(BRAC University, 2017-03)In this research paper I am going to write how a teacher can create a positive learning environment, how teachers can play an important role to make students more communicative. I will include- classroom management, ... -
Questioning pattern used by secondary level school teachers in Bangladesh (Dhaka city): an investigation into classroom interaction
(BRAC University, 2017-03)Teacher Questioning is regarded the main activity of the secondary school English classes in our country context because teacher questions are predominant input that has become an extremely central aspect of teacher - pupil ... -
Critical discourse analysis of political talk shows of Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2017-04)The present study aim at critically analyzing the underlying ideologies in the political Talk shows in Bangladesh. The study focuses on the content of the discourse of the talk shows to analyze how linguistic features are ...
