Students’ engagement techniques used by teachers during activities of English language teaching in the tertiary level

Abstract

The research attempts to investigate the techniques that keep students engaged in their activities used by the teachers while taking class of English language at the tertiary level. A considerable part of work has been done on this area based on collected data collected through questionnaire survey among tertiary level students, focused group discussion, class observation and interviews of English teachers from two renowned universities in Dhaka. This research finds out the possible types of activities introduced by the teachers in the classroom and how the students’ engagement techniques help to improve students’ learning of the subject matter. The study also investigates the role and attitudes of teachers and learners in this regard. Firstly, it explores the relevant materials from the existing literature on the historical development of the techniques used by the teachers to engage the students in the activities. The research methodology has been designed by combining both qualitative and quantitative techniques in order to find the answers of the research questions. Then, it provides an elaboration of the research findings based on the analysis of the data. Finally, it reports on the brief summary of this study with the conclusive comments and recommendations based on findings. The study suggests that the teacher needs to design the classroom activities, lesson plan and materials for tertiary level learners by adjusting with the local cultural issues and students past educational background as well as developing a combination of number of methods like CLT and collaborative method in order to ensure students’ better learning.