Browsing Volume 11, Number 01, 2016 by Title

Hindu women’s property rights: Bangladesh perspective

In Bangladesh Hindu women are guaranteed meager property rights in comparison to their male relative as well as their other religious counterparts. Although Bangladesh is mandated through its constitution to prohibit all ...

Implementing blogs as a learning tool in Asian EFL/ESL learning context

“Weblogs” or “Blogs” is a type of technology that allows writing personal journals online that can be published and viewed over the web. Even though blogs are being used for personal, educational, journalistic and commercial ...

Mother and transgendered son: a study of gender role conflict in Sherwood Anderson’s “mother”

In a conventional society men are expected to be masculine. Unlike women, they must be resolute, authoritarian and truculent. In comparison to men, women are presumed to exhibit feminine gender traits like submissiveness, ...

The place of Pierre Bourdieu's theories in (popular) cultural studies

This article examines the relevance of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theories to cultural studies. His key concepts such as cultural capital, habitus, field and symbolic violence are introduced and explained in ...

The usefulness of the debate between focus on form and focus on forms

The literature review includes 13 articles and 2 chapters from 2 books titled Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching, and Learning, and Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching published in the last ten years ...

Woman as ‘other’ in the short stories of contemporary Bangladeshi writers

Women, irrespective of all classes, races, religions and societies, have always been confined to particular roles sanctioned by the male-dominated society. The patriarchal ideologies regard women as “sexual objects” or ...