Browsing Volume 11, Number 01, 2016 by Title

Ambiguities and tensions in the role and use of English in Bangladesh

Over the past few years, there has been a revival of interest in the English language in Bangladesh with the government putting a lot of emphasis on the teaching and learning of English. There have been a plethora of ...

Cultural relativism and human rights in Ama Ata Aidoo’s changes: a love story

Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes documents the changing situations of contemporary women in Accra, Ghana. The novel deals with an idea of the Western-styled universalist language of women’s rights, a concept that constructs certain ...

Description of verb morphology in colloquial Bangla

The paper presents a description of the Colloquial Bangla (Bengali) verb morphology in relation to the Standard Bangla. As researchers begin to conduct studies in various aspects of Bangla, e.g. in computational linguistics ...

Developing a motivation-conscious second language teaching approach: a literature survey

Motivation is probably used as the most important factor when describing success and failure in second language (L2) learning. During the lengthy and often tedious process of mastering an L2, learners with sufficient ...

Examining learners’ and instructors’ perspectives on the use of blended wiki sessions to improve professionals’ writing skills

This paper focuses on the learners’ and instructors’ perspectives on wiki based virtual writing sessions while investigating the effectiveness and challenges of such blending in a demand-driven English language course ...

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 ...