Wendy Sims‐Schouten, Sarah Riley, Carla Willig
In critical realism, language is understood as constructing our social realities. However, these constructions are theorized as being shaped by the possibilities and constraints inherent in the material world. For critical realists, material practices are given an ontological status that is independ...
Momtazur Rahman
English for Specific Purposes, known as acronym-‘ESP', has been a distinct activity in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) since 1960s. The flowering period of ESP has been identified due to many incidents like the second world war in 1945, the rapid expansion in scientific, the growth of s...
Nasreen Sultana
Language assessment literacy (LAL) is a critical field for researchers, scholars, or anyone interested in improving the language teaching environment. Understanding the basics of testing and the ability to perform testing-related activities becomes more significant in test-oriented countries. As suc...
Shoichi Takahashi, Sarah Hulsey
In this article, we develop a substantially expanded theory of late merger. Adopting related insights by Fox (2002), we argue that late merger is permitted whenever an output representation can be interpreted in the semantic component. A consequence of our approach is that late merger is available n...
Kazi Imran Hossain
English language learning has become a global phenomenon, with millions of learners around the world seeking to acquire proficiency in this lingua franca. One of the key factors influencing English language learning is culture. This paper critically examines the role of culture in English language l...
Andy Kirkpatrick
The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of World Englishes. Split into six sections with 40 contributions, this Handbook discusses how English is operating in a wide range of fields from business to popular culture and from education to new lit...
Shagia Afrin
Writing is considered a productive skill and useful tool for learning process. It is the most used skill in evaluating students’ performance in almost all levels of education. In Bangladesh, tertiary level students still face enormous writing problems in English. The present study aims to explore wr...
Tita Beaven, Anna Comas-Quinn, Mirjam Hauck, Beatriz de los Arcos et al.
One of the main barriers to the reuse of Open Educational Resources (OER) is language (OLnet, 2009). OER may be available but in a language that users cannot access, so a preliminary step to reuse is their translation or localization. One of the obvious solutions to the vast effort required to trans...
David A Peterson
In Bangladesh Khumi, core participants (S, A, P, and R) frequently occur with three apparent case markers: =lö1, =mö3, and =a1. Examination of these elements’ distribution in a large naturalistic text corpus, however, reveals the first two have primarily discourse motivations. =lö1 is a straightforw...
Md Shaiful Islam, Mahani Stapa
Abstract Students of private universities in Bangladesh are often found to be less competent in spoken English. Since the universities have adopted EMI (English medium instruction) policy, the prevailing linguistic condition on the campus is an “English only environment.” In this context, students a...
Claire Bartlett, Karen Bunning
A small‐scale study was conducted to investigate the extent to which the verbal communication skills used by adults with learning disabilities were complemented by those used by their keyworkers during communicative exchanges. The setting was a community‐based day centre. The number of information c...
Shaheen Ara
Although children learn a language faster than adults, they do not learn through traditional language teaching methods. Through fun activities children can learn a language better as learning becomes natural for them since these activities do not make them conscious that they are learning a language...
Abdul Karim, Abdul Rashid Mohamed, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed Ismail, Faheem Hasan Shahed et al.
Identifying the EFL learners’ errors in writing has no longer been important but essential. As such, drawing the pertinent questions that what are the most common types of error committed by EFL learners in Bangladesh and what are the perceptions possessed by them concerning error correction, the ar...
Manmay Zafar
This article discusses Krashen's Monitor Model and the attendant five hypotheses. Since its 1977 publication, Krashen, through a series of revisions, have tried to explain the way learners acquire a second language. This article closely looks at his basic premises and the criticism they have generat...
Sabrin Farooqui
The globalisation of English and a growing demand for good English-speaking skills in the job market in particular have been placing a greater emphasis on the teaching of English speaking skills in Bangladesh. The private universities emphasise developing English skills. It seems that students of pu...