Nishat Sultana Nuha, Tanjim Mahmud, Noortaz Rezaoana, Mohammad Shahadat Hossain et al.
Student engagement refers to the level of involve-ment, interest, attention, and active participation that students demonstrate during their learning experiences. As the engage-ment rate increases the learning rate, teachers always try to mea-sure the engagement rate in the classroom in various ways...
Nargis Chowdhury
Classroom code switching is a common scenario in many multi lingual and multicultural classes. In a monolingual country like Bangladesh, classroom code switching has some distinctive attributes. As a part of the global transformation in the methods and techniques of English language teaching, we nee...
Sanford B. Steever
The majority of the Dravidian languages are concentrated in southern and central India, spreading south from the Vindhya Mountains across the Deccan Plateau all the way to Cape Cormorin. Tamil, the best known of the Dravidian languages, belongs to the South Dravidian subgroup. It is first recorded i...
Nellufar Yeasmin, Abul Kalam Azad, Jannatul Ferdoush
The present study aims to emphasize the effectiveness of using literature in EFL classes through a case study on the project “Readers’ Development Program” of the British Council, Bangladesh executed in the Department of English at ASA University Bangladesh(ASAUB). The concept of teaching language t...
Prodhan Mahbub Ibna Seraj, Hadina Habil, Md. Kamrul Hasan
Although a good number of studies have been conducted on the problems EFL learners face to develop oral English communication skills, only a few studies tackled the problems EFL teachers face when teaching oral English communication skills at the tertiary level globally and in the Bangladeshi EFL co...
Md. Ziaul Haque
This article deals with the problems in translating literary prose and reveals some pertinent solutions and also concentrates on the need to expand the perimeters of Translation Studies. The translation courses offered at many universities in Bangladesh and overseas treat the subject mostly as an ou...
Brian Spooner
Persian is an important language today in a number of countries of west, south and central Asia. But its status in each is different. In Iran its unique status as the only official or national language continues to be jealously guarded, even though half—probably more—of the population use a differen...
Ambarul Mahasiswa Setiawati, Dara Mela Ayu, Sinta Wulandari, Vita Agustiawati Putri
Penelitian ini membahas mengenai penggunaan gaya bahasa dan makna yang terdapat pada lirik di salah satu lagu Nadin Amizah yang berjudul “Bertaut” yang dirilis pada tahun 2020. Peneliti menggunakan pendekatan secara kualitatif dengan hasil diskusi berupa penjelasan deskriptif. Peneliti memilih lagu ...
Binoy Barman
Noam Chomsky, one of the most famous linguists of the twentieth century, based his linguistic works on certain philosophical doctrines. His main contribution to linguistics is Transformational Generative Grammar, which is founded on mentalist philosophy. He opposes the behaviourist psychology in fav...
Yenny Rahmawati, Ertin Ertin
Recently there have been debates on assessing students’ performances on speaking since the cultural and subjective issues embedded in bringing awareness on how teachers construct their speaking assessment. The main focus of this paper is a way to design assessment for speaking suitable for the Indon...
Arif Nugroho, Muhammad Rizal Akbar Zamzami, Nur Farah Ukhrowiyah
The present study involved one EFL learner who was regarded as successful, not only of understanding second language acquisition theories but also of demonstrating exceptional language skills thus far. An in-depth semi-structured interview was administered with three key objectives – to identify fea...
Tara Shankar Sinha, Hossein Nassaji
Abstract This study investigated the effects of direct and indirect WCF on learners’ accuracy in revision and new pieces of writing and also examined the relationship between learners’ perception of WCF and the effectiveness of each feedback type. Data were collected from 56 learners divided into th...
Asifa Sultana
Like in any other learning situation, in a second language classroom a learner essentially needs to be provided with feedback on his/her performance. Due to the emergence of Communicative Language Teaching and Learner-centered Teaching, students’ active participation in language learning is now high...
Pia Pichler
This paper explores how multifunctional teasing is used as a resource for the construction of linguistic identities, establishing a link between previous research on teasing and the field of language/discourse and identity. I draw on a corpus of 38 episodes of teasing contained in 80 minutes of spon...