An evaluation of TESOL curriculum in Bangladesh: a study of student’s perspective

Abstract

Evaluation in education has recently come into sharp focus in many contexts. Demands for evaluation in education have been with us as long as formal education has existed. This thesis represents two research problems regarding the evaluation of the TESOL curriculum in Bangladesh from student’s perspective. The evaluation process begins with a determination of what is to be evaluated. The demand for competent users of English in the era of globalization has had a significant impact on English Language Teaching (ELT) in Bangladesh. This study has done to understand what is the overall idea about TESOL present state of the program and its curriculum, based on students feedback; In addition to understand what students learning from this program. Educational evaluation is a systematic process, which remark a new concepts, procedures, and instruments of developing a new TESOL programs is emerging as a field of interest to understand its effectiveness in Bangladesh .As long as formal education has existed, demands for evaluation in education have been always wanted to know the outcome of their efforts. However, drawing a research, the researcher have used mix method and are expected to be collected data from enrolled MA in ELT, TESOL students from five Universities. There are survey questionnaire for students which are utilized as tools for data collection only; to understand what is meant by evaluation and to justify the claims on empirical basis. There is no doubt that a good curriculum is needed to teach a language to achieve certain goals. To understand what is referred by the meant of evaluation of TESOL program in prospect on student of post-graduate level the segment for TESOL program are made of.