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Struggles of the past and present: the African American woman in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie portrays struggles of a black Nigerian as an American immigrant in Americanah. This novel shows conflicts of migratory life, relationship between African American and African people and explores ...
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 ...
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 ...
The effect of interpersonal learning style on speaking skill of tertiary level students
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
This study investigated the effect of interpersonal learning style on speaking skill of tertiary level students. Five private universities of Dhaka, Bangladesh have been selected, from where 70 students and 15 teachers ...
Enforced CLT or disguised GTM?: investigating English curriculum implementation in secondary schools in Bangladesh”
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
National curriculum and textbooks board (NCTB) curriculum of Secondary level in Bangladesh promotes communicative language teaching (CLT). NCTB curriculum is written to increase the practice of CLT in EFL (English as a ...
Investigating teachers‟ preferences for eclecticism in the teaching of English in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
This study investigates elementary level English language teachers‟ preferences for practicing eclecticism in Bangladesh. Both qualitative and quantitative data were used for this study. There is a growing debate about the ...
Translation in L2 learning: beliefs and strategy use on writing skills of junior secondary level learners
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
Translation has a noteworthy historical background towards second language learning but to some
extent, several researchers demonstrate that it only draws to shortsighted balanced connection
between the local and second ...
An exploration of the functions of english in urban Bangladesh: investigation of people’s attitude
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
In present world, use of English language is prominent in every part of people’s lives, even in countries where English is not the native tongue. In a developing country like Bangladesh, people are using English in different ...
Teaching english in rural schools: a case study of three primary schools in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
This study explored opportunities and difficulties of teaching English in rural primary schools in Bangladesh. Rural schools are lagged behind in many ways than the city schools. Most of the cases there is hardly any modern ...
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 ...