Browsing Thesis, M.A. (English) by Title
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Online English courses during Covid-19: a qualitative study of exploring rural students’ struggle in online learning
(Brac University, 2021-05)This study aims to explore various barriers encountered by the tertiary level students in attending online ESL (English as a Second Language) classes. During this pandemic like many other students tertiary level students, ... -
Oral corrective feedback: use and impact on junior secondary level students
(BRAC University, 2019-08)The study attempted to find out how junior secondary level English language teachers utilize their corrective feedback verbally in classroom settings. To fulfill that purpose, the research was conducted in 3 Bengali ... -
Performance and challenges in online-based education: three Bangladeshi private universities in concern
(Brac University, 2021-01)Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enhances learning and teaching. With the recent Corona Virus spread all over the world, communication and sharing contents through internet has become the need of the day. ... -
A poetic protest for peace: An analysis of Benjamin Zephaniah‘s poetry
(Brac University, 2021-01)Benjamin Zephaniah‘s poetry is deeply conscious of questions of racism, social injustice, and violence. He writes against these and demands solidarity among people of different backgrounds. This study is a qualitative ... -
Popularity and effectiveness of smartphones in English language learning: perceptions of undergraduate students and their teachers
(BRAC University, 2019-04)The study, qualitative in nature, examines the effectiveness and acceptance of smartphones in English language learning among the tertiary level students in Bangladesh. Smartphones can be incorporated with English language ... -
Postcolonial residual: Foundation of national Identity of Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2020-12)Colonized nation-sates cannot escape the residual problems of the colonial environment. The birth of Bangladesh as a self-governing nation-state is directly influenced by its colonial rulers (both British Raj and Pakistan). ... -
A postmodern analysis: tracing the elements of politics, war and trauma in graphic narratives in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Joe Sacco’s Palestine
(Brac University, 2019-08)The paper aims to show how graphic novels can be included in the mainstream reading culture. Visual narratives not only glorify a culture or a country, but it also instruments to highlight the intricate and gruesome details ... -
Postmodernism: crisis versus construction of identity
(BRAC University, 2014-08)The question of identity in literature is quite common. The trend of identity formation differs from pre-modern to modern stage and from modern stage to postmodern stage. Sometimes it seems very problematic and sometimes ... -
Problematizing the cultural practices of Bollywood films: A critical reading of Bollywood films from Indian culture industry
(Brac University, 2021-05)This study determines through visual analysis how Patriarchy and Prejudice has taken over society and the practice of patriarchal society is presented through Bollywood films. And, how Gender roles are misconceptualized ... -
The problems of virtual English Language teaching in English medium schools of Dhaka: a study on secondary school students
(Brac University, 2021-05)The research paper aims to explore the problems of English language teaching in online teaching-learning classroom. The paper focuses on the problems that the teachers are facing while taking online classes and some of the ... -
Reflection on the condition of women during the partition of India in the selected works of Sadat Hassan Manto
(Brac University, 2019-07)History bears as a testament of the tragic time where human beings could not fully realize the destructive proportions that were a part of the experience of women during the era of partition. This paper aims to highlight ... -
Reincarnation of the myths: the evolution of fairy tales in modern literature
(Brac University, 2023-04)This aim of this thesis is to explore the transformation of fairy tales in modern literature. Fairy tales carry a rich history dating back centuries and have undergone significant changes as they have been adapted and ... -
Representation of prostitution in the novels woman at Point Zero by Nawwal el Saadawi and Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
(BRAC University, 2019-04)Most of us tend to associate the word ‘prostitute’ with negative connotations. Synonyms of the word are used as a slang term against women we want to label as ‘characterless’. When we hear stories of prostitutes in ... -
Reshaping identities: The second generations of immigrants in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know (2014)
(Brac University, 2022-05)How identities are reshaped and reconstructed through the influence of history and the ways in which the second generation of immigrants react and adapt within the transnational space is the central focus of this ... -
The revival of the Flâneur : analysing narratives of Flânerie in W. G. Sebald‟s Austerlitz and Teju Cole‟s Open City.
(Brac University, 2019-08)The concept of the urban explorer, the flâneur, is a nineteenth century phenomenon which has gone through major transformations in the last hundred years. Significantly, the flâneur is being revived and refashioned in ... -
Rise of new media and the changes in the perceptions of reality
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Screencast feedback versus textual feedback in L2 writing: an experimental study on IELTS writing task 2 responses in the Bangladeshi context
(Brac University, 2022-12)It has been generally established, though with controversy, that feedback serves an important purpose in developing second language learners’ writing skills. Screencast feedback is the new breed of feedback whereas the ... -
Sexual politics and rape in the selected works of Shashi Deshpande: a feminist Perspective
(Brac University, 2019-12)Since the early revolutionary period of the first wave of feminist movement in India in 1850, women have come a long way with the feminist liberation movements continuously striving to bring in reformation in various ... -
Strategies for vocabulary learning by tertiary level learners
(Brac University, 2018-12)This paper is concerned with tertiary level learners who adopt different vocabulary learning strategies. The purpose of this study is to explore strategies which are prominent for tertiary level learners to improve their ... -
The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting in Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
(Brac University, 2021-09)Since memory studies is a continuously expanding and contentious interdisciplinary field, scholarly interest in it has grown considerably in recent times, especially within the humanities. Situated in memory studies, this ...