Thesis, B.A. (English): Recent submissions
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Teaching speaking and listening skills: a scenario of young learners of Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2014)This study investigates the scenario of teaching ‘speaking and listening’ to young learners. Using questionnaire survey, classroom observation, and interview, this study shows that the techniques and materials used in ... -
An investigation of English language anxiety : experiences of undergraduate students in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2013-08)Anxiety, which is a troubled state of mind, stands out to be an important variable for its debilitating effect on the performance of the second language learners. Second language anxiety can impede a student’s learning ... -
World War II and after – responses of three british dramatists – Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and John Osborne
(BRAC University, 2014-08)The post-World War II era was a time of disintegration in every sphere of life. The two World Wars shattered the Western myth of a rational and humane evolution of the world based on principles of equality, growth and ... -
Role of warm-up activity in language classroom: a tertiary scenario
(BRAC University, 2014-04)This research tries is to find out the effectiveness of using warm up activity in language classroom. It gives an introduction emphasizing on warm up activity has a number of benefits. Starting a class with a warm up ... -
Prevailing non-normativities: exploring gender norms, transgressive desires and identities in literature by Muslim women writers of the subcontinent
(BRAC University, 2014-08-14)Prevailing Non-Normativities: Exploring Gender Norms, Transgressive Desires and Identities in Literature by Muslim Women Writers of the Subcontinent is an exploration of essentialist gender norms, transgressive desires, ... -
An exploratory study of using blogs and social media in developing writing English
(BRAC University, 2014)This exploratory study investigated the benefits of using blogs and other social media to develop English writing based on the readings of existing literatures in the field. Secondly, the paper looked at the reactions of ... -
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 ... -
Bilingual behaviors : factors accelerating code switching and code mixing among the urdu speaking Bihari hairdressing communities of Dhaka
(BRAC University, 2014-05-20)This research attempts to find out the diverse factors accelerating the process of code switching and code mixing among the Urdu Speaking Bihari Hair Dressing Communities of Dhaka. There are some social, economic and ... -
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 effectiveness of creative writing in language learning : a comparative study between Bangla medium and English medium elementary level
(BRAC University, 2014)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 ... -
Time in postmodern novels: A study of slaughterhouse-five, time’s arrow and the sense of an ending
(BRAC University, 2014-04)The study attempts to illustrate how Kurt Vonnegut, Martin Amis and Julian Burnes depict time in keeping with postmodernist practice and the three novelists present a new aspect of time . In the introductory part, the paper ... -
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 ... -
Measuring the creativity of JSC graduates: A Bangladeshi perspective
(BRAC University, 2014-04-16)For a long time, Bangladeshi learners were accustomed to the so-called “rote-learning” system. However, in the primary and secondary education sectors, a creative curriculum has recently been introduced by the curriculum ... -
Representation of Africa in post-colonial Anglophone writings: V. S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe and J. M. Coetzee
(BRAC University, 2014-04)Post-colonialism and post-modernism are literary movements that can be viewed together. In this context post-colonial Anglo-phone literature about Africa is written from different points of view by post-colonial writers ... -
Authentic input to motivate learners to develop listening skill: benefits, drawbacks of using podcast
(BRAC University, 2014-04)In Bangladesh, mobile devices are distinctly gaining the importance in education section. While CD-ROMs, multimedia computer labs, the World Wide Web, e-mail, and SMS still play an important part in language learning, ... -
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 ... -
Schizophrenic language : the possibility of early detection
(BRAC University, 2014-04)This research attempts to find out the language and communicative impairments of the patients with schizophrenia so that early detection will be possible through the analysis of the language patterns. It gives an ... -
Teaching methods and approaches in ESL classrooms in Dhaka : a comparative study between English and Bangla Medium schools
(BRAC University, 2014)The study explores the present state of English Language Teaching in both English and Bangla medium schools in Bangladesh. It focuses exclusively on ELT teaching methods and approaches in Bangla and English medium schools, ... -
A comparative analysis of Chakma and English Vowels
(BRAC University, 2013-12)This study examines that a comparative analysis of English and Chakma vowel phonemes with which different features of these two languages comes out. In this study the similarities and dissimilarities of Chakma vowels ... -
Factors of language shift from chakma to bengali: A study on the Chakma-speaking people
(Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, 2013-12)Language shift has become a common phenomenon in the countries where there is more than one speech community. In such countries the dominant language gradually engulfs the minor languages. As Bangladesh comprises different ...
