Thesis, B.A. (English): Recent submissions
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Negotiating spaces for women in society by retelling fairy tales
(BRAC University, 2016-11)This thesis explores the ways in which fairy tales affect our socio-political realities, and how by manipulating these tales we are able to manipulate the roles we actually play in the society. This paper believes that ... -
Effectiveness and difficulties of creative writing in language learning: a study of secondary level Bangla medium schools in Dhaka city
(BRAC University, 2016)Writing is one of the productive skills which sometime seems difficult to acquire to the learners. There are many approaches to teach writing. Creative writing is one approach of teaching writing which has become more ... -
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 ... -
Postmodern study: analysis of themes and techniques in the crying of Lot 49, slaughterhouse-five and disgrace
(BRAC University, 2016-12)Postmodernism is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary world. This term has influenced authors so that they choose it as their subject of writing. Mainly this paper aims to discuss themes and techniques, of the ... -
Assessing reading difficulties and reading strategies in the context of Bangladesh: tertiary level
(BRAC University, 2016-11)Reading is not an easy skill since most of the learners have many reading issues specially ESL learners. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate various reading difficulties are faced by advanced level tertiary ... -
A survey report on teachers’ thought and awareness of using oral corrective feedback in the primary level: context Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2016-11)In learning a target language, making error is an inevitable part of learning process. Oral corrective feedback is a teacher signs to indicate the learners utterance of the target language is incorrect. This study aimed ... -
Code switching in Bangladesh TV media while presenting and communicating
(BRAC University, 2016-11)This is an exploratory investigation of the phenomenon of code-switching/ code mixing as practiced in different types of programs in TV media. The main aim is to discover the various possible explanations of why personalities ... -
Discourse on social gathering: context Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2016-11)This study attempts to find out the present trend and emotional factors of social gathering. Therefore it includes analyzing the discourse of different social gathering and different level participants. Different components ... -
From texts to films: adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Great Gatsby across the 20th and the 21st centuries
(BRAC University, 2016-11)Literary adaptation has reached a new dimension specially from the postmodern era. The process of adaptation has gone through many technical and aesthetic changes over the last few centuries. And the changes vary from the ... -
Influence of digital technology in EFL learning at Bangladeshi universities
(BRAC University, 2016-11-30)In this modern era, use of technology has become an essential part of foreign language teaching and learning. This research attempts to find out how technology influences learning of English as a foreign language from ... -
Role of practicing discrete point grammar item in order to develop the skill of free writing: focus on secondary level Bangla medium students of Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2016-12-30)This study inspects the role of practicing discrete point grammar item to develop the skill of free writing where the focus lies on Bangla medium students of secondary level of Bangladesh. The goal of the study is to explore ... -
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 ... -
An exploration of the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘faith’ in Rabindranath Tagore’s the religion of man and Gitanjali
(BRAC University, 2016-11)The main functions of religions are often undermined in today’s mainstream discourse. It falls under the shadow of epistemological questions of whether God is real, or met with violent intolerance just as it is used to ... -
Women’s quest for identity in the selected works of Anita Desai & Shashi Deshpande
(BRAC University, 2016-11)The aim of this dissertation is to explore, examine and analyze women‟s quest for a self-asserted independent/liberated identity; oppositional to the ones that are imposed upon them by the society. For that purpose the ... -
Discourse analysis of telecom ads: a critical insight from the applied linguistics perspective
(BRAC University, 2015-04)Advertisements, evident all around, are part of the daily lives of people. It is a kind of communication which is also part of social process. In a particular culture advertisements have dominance to influence the ... -
Flight behaviour and the hungry tide on environmental crisis and the retelling of place
(BRAC University, 2015-08)The environmental crisis is not necessarily a new concern in literature. Pre-modern writings have responded to the crisis in a variety of ways, from the anthropomorphic deification of environmental phenomena to Romantic ... -
Imagining female subjects: formation of the self of women in Diaspora
(BRAC University, 2016-04)This thesis aims to look at the formation of the self of women in diaspora in the selected diasporic novels. The novels which have been chosen to be a part of this research are as follows: Brick Lane (2003) by Monica ... -
The Tempest: a postmodern reading
(BRAC University, 2016-04)The works of William Shakespeare have a universal influence and are considered the representatives of ‘all time and all ages’. Critics, scholars, academics and students have been rereading, reexamining, retelling and ... -
Mirroring women’s world in Utopian and Dystopian novels In Sultana’s Dream, Herland, The Bluest Eye and Memoirs of a Survivor
(BRAC University, 2016-04)This thesis examines how from the early to late-20th century women writers of different contexts and cultural backgrounds have utilized the genres of ‘Utopian’ and ‘Dystopian’ literature to challenge the social and cultural ... -
How toddlers acquire a second language in an Irish environment
(BRAC University, 2016-04)This research attempts to find, how the Bangladeshi children and toddlers who suddenly move to another country from their birth country learn a new language (English) and cope up with a totally different environment at ...
