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Description of verb morphology in colloquial Bangla
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
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 ...
Ambiguities and tensions in the role and use of English in Bangladesh
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
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 ...
Woman as ‘other’ in the short stories of contemporary Bangladeshi writers
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
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 ...
Mother and transgendered son: a study of gender role conflict in Sherwood Anderson’s “mother”
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
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, ...
Examining learners’ and instructors’ perspectives on the use of blended wiki sessions to improve professionals’ writing skills
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
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 ...
Cultural relativism and human rights in Ama Ata Aidoo’s changes: a love story
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
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 ...
The usefulness of the debate between focus on form and focus on forms
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
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 ...
Hindu women’s property rights: Bangladesh perspective
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
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
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
“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 ...
Developing a motivation-conscious second language teaching approach: a literature survey
(© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)
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 ...