Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Title
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Significance of learner's errors and the role of feedback to improve the writing skill of elementary level students
(BRAC University, 2011-12)The aim of this study is to find out the common errors that elementary level students usually commit in their written work, how the second language teachers address them and how feedback can help our learners. This paper ... -
Significance of symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe’s selected works
(BRAC University, 2015-12)Romantics emerged through creating a new wave in literature. They were more concern about the expression of feelings than reason. They found the classics somewhere stagnant at a particular point from where human passion ... -
Simulation, simulacra, and modern modes of escapism: living in the hyperreal
(Brac University, 2022-09)The state of the modern world as it stands, creates the perfect conditions to live an imperfect life. Most people live their lives separate from their desires of how they would like for it to be if given the chance to ... -
Social media affecting minds and moneybags
(Brac University, 2022-04)People have become so much dependent on technologies and social media nowadays. Like every other factors, it has also affected their lives in two different ways. Some have consumed the positive impacts and some had negatives. ... -
Social media terraforming media landscape
(Brac University, 2021-05)The 21st century is defined by technological advances made by modern civilization. As every aspect of life is changing in the presence of cutting edge technology, the media landscape of the world and Bangladesh is ... -
Socio- psychological barriers to effective language learning in adult EFL classroom in context of Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2019-04)This paper inspects the socio-psychological barriers that adult learners face in classrooms while learning a foreign language, in this case, English. It also studies how these barriers are working negatively for the whole ... -
Sociolinguistic incompetence
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Speaking anxiety : can this be overcome by teaching our own variety?
(BRAC University, 2015-12)This study explores the practice of teaching and learning English speaking in our higher secondary school contexts. The main objective of this study was to find out the reasons behind the speaking anxiety that is often ... -
Speaking anxiety of english language learners in Bangladeshi tertiary classroom
(BRAC University, 2017-03)In the context of verbal English communication in Bangladesh, Bengali medium students always struggle due to their lack of exposure to communicative English language context. The rigid Grammar Translation curriculum at ... -
Speaking anxiety of university students and their strategies to overcome anxiety
(Brac University, 2023-03)When a student gets into University, they have to quickly adapt to using English because academic tasks are conducted in English. From communicating with the teacher inside the classroom to doing several oral presentations, ... -
The splitting
(Brac University, 2023-05)A fiction that encompasses the life of our protagonist, Falaq. As tragedies unfold, the changes she experiences is fore told in this fiction. -
State power as a means of oppression towards women: A study of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
(BRAC University, 2021-05)This thesis aims to trace the political and social events of the 1970s to 1980s with the focus on the rise of Christian beliefs during that time. It highlights how the women of patriarchal society in the novel and ... -
Struggles of hybrid citizens as presented by mixed origin writers and poets
(Brac University, 2021-05)People are constantly migrating to other places – sometimes seeking refuge, sometimes seeking a better life than in their own country. Immigration is one form of migration. However, one cannot just immigrate to another ... -
Students' propensity for private English language tuition in Bangladesh: The unseen scenario of private tuition
(Brac University, 2022-05)Private Tuition in Bangladesh has become an obligatory part of education in Bangladesh which is a common scenario nowadays. However, nobody is focusing on the ultimate result and impact on the education system regarding ... -
Students’ and teachers’ attitude towards translanguaging: an inter university study in Dhaka
(Brac University, 2019-07)An age old question whether or not native language should be used in second language classroom is still unanswered. On the basis of this thought, this research aimed to figure out students’ and teachers’ attitude towards ... -
Students’ perception on high-stakes English language testing in Bangladesh: expectations vs reality
(Brac University, 2021-09)This study critically examines students’ perception on high-stakes English language testing in Bangladesh. Every year thousands of students in their Primary, Junior Secondary, Secondary and Higher Secondary level, attend ... -
A study of film adaptation of Hamlet and Disgrace : moving from text to screen
(BRAC University, 2015-08)Literary adaptation has reached a new dimension in the postmodern era. Literary adaptations have gone through various technical and aesthetic changes over the last century and are done taking from the classical literary ... -
A study of the communicative and linguistic impairments of the Autistic children
(BRAC University, 2013-08)This research attempts to find out diverse language and communication impairments of the autistic children. These children have problems in phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology and so on. Again, they also experience ... -
A study of the pragmatic language impairments of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
(BRAC University, 2015-12)This study attempts to find out the pragmatic language impairments experienced by children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The triads of symptoms-inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity hamper their ... -
Study of the self and other: the white women's struggle of positionality in the heart of South Africa
(BRAC University, 2016-08)This dissertation will primarily focus on how colonialism created the binaries of the colonizer (Self) and the colonized (Other). The dichotomy, not only did it divide the geographical locations of East and West, or separated ...