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Inspiring writers through using blogs
(BRAC University, 2015-12-03)This paper focuses on how writing through blogs motivates students. The researcher conducted a study on randomly selected 30 students of tertiary level EFL classes Of Private University in Dhaka city. Questionnaire consists ... -
Instrumental motivation appears tobe more effective and more powerful in facilitating second language learning in comparison with integrative motivation
(BRAC University, 2008-12)This study is aimed to determine that Instrumental motivation is more effective than integrative motivation. This research was actually done to verify that here in Bangladesh instrumental motivation works more. Motivation ... -
Integrating 21st Century skills into the academic program of a private university: an evaluative study
(Brac University, 2019-12)This study investigates the provision of teaching 21st century skills to the undergraduate students at a private university. The world is changing faster and to cope up with the modern world universities are constantly ... -
Integrating literature into language programs: a comparative study of attitudes of tertiary level students
(BRAC University, 2018-08)s study investigates the attitudes of 100 tertiary level learners to the incorporation of literature in the language classroom. It also compares differences in the attitude among students of English and non-English major ... -
An inter-disciplinary study of how democracies eventually emulate authoritarian regimes, considering 1984 as a forewarning
(Brac University, 2022-02)For decades following World War II, the inadequacies and opulence exhibited by dictatorships had prompted people to refocus their attention toward democratic administration. Democracy was triumphant in the Cold War against ... -
Interdependency of language and social views : A study of women's social position in a Bangla Speech Community
(BRAC University, 2012-08)Works of many feminists, linguistis and sociologists have suggested the notion that all languages are man-made and man-driven to carry out the male agenda, and it plays a role in creating and maintaining a certain social ... -
An interpretation of nietzsche’s idea of ubermensch
(BRAC University, 2016-04)“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” Friedrich Nietzsche (Daybreak, 16). Friedrich Nietzsche is popularly seen as the enigmatic ... -
Interpretations and adaptations of Fairy Tales: “The Right” question is yet to be asked
(Brac University, 2020-12)Fairy tales are just as magical as human life. Our own life is a part of the magic that enchants us and makes us unable to see our magic. So we take help as a listener of the fairy tales from a land of once upon a time ... -
Investigating the impact of facebook on developing English language proficiency at the tertiary level students in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2019-04)It has been a very controversial topic in today’s world that, whether Facebook is helping or hampering in students’ education. It is mostly affecting the students who tend to learn ESL with the assistance of social media. ... -
An investigation of English language anxiety : experiences of undergraduate students in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2013-08)Anxiety, which is a troubled state of mind, stands out to be an important variable for its debilitating effect on the performance of the second language learners. Second language anxiety can impede a student’s learning ... -
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict in news media
(Brac University, 2023-05)News media, often known as the news industry, distributes news to the public or a specialized population. News media can be divided into three categories – broadcast, print, and digital. Social media is a type of digital ... -
It's the economy, stupid : contemporary postmedern fiction and its capitalist roots
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The JSC english language examination in Bangladesh: is it actually testing learners’ language skills
(BRAC University, 2019-04)Language tests have been a matter of concern in a country like Bangladesh where English is taught in isolation. The high stake tests tend to test language items discreetly without considering content embedded language ... -
L1 interference in L2 : a study from Bangladeshi perspective
(BRAC University, 2015-12)Language learning refers to learning a new language other than native language. In learning a new language learners often face interference of their native language. This paper describes how the researcher conducted a study ... -
Language as a tool for adapting to Bangladeshi culture
(BRAC University, 2016-11-30)Migration has become a common phenomenon as the world is being globalized day by day. Migration refers to shift from one country to another. This shifting makes the migrants learn the new language and cope with the new ... -
Language differences between the children who are brought up by mothers and those by caretakers in Dhaka City
(BRAC University, 2013-12-26)Language development is considered as a useful indicator of a child‘s overall development. It is the medium of a communication which helps to express the needs, thoughts and ideas of human being. Language is a communicating ... -
Language shift: the diverse factors responsible for the acceleration process in different communities
(BRAC University, 2012-08-12)This research attempts to find out the diverse factors accelerating the process of language shift in different communities. There are some social, economic and political factors that lead a community to shift from using ... -
Learners’ foreign language speaking anxiety: a tertiary level scenario in EFL class
(BRAC University, 2014-12)This research is concerned with Bangladeshi learners’ anxiety of speaking English at tertiary level classrooms. In this paper, the researcher tried to find out the factors responsible for speaking anxiety of the learners, ... -
Learning style preferences of junior school students in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2014-08)The reason of this study was to identify the learning style preferences of English medium junior school students in Bangladesh. A questionnaire was administered to 500 randomly selected students from the five topmost English ... -
Learning to survive: African American women’s quest for their rights during the civil rights movement
(BRAC Univeristy, 2018-04)The twentieth century marked one of the greatest events in African American history as people fought for their rights which sparked the protest of the African American Civil Rights Movement of America. The African Americans ...