M. Obaidul Hamid, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen, Richard B. Baldauf
One major impact of globalisation on education is denoted by the growing trend to use English, the global language, as a medium of instruction (MOI) in emerging polities that are trying to enhance their English-speaking capacities. This article emphasises developing an understanding of MOI from a la...
M. Obaidul Hamid
The effects of globalisation and the global spread of English have created a phenomenal demand for English all over the world. The demand is illustrated by the introduction of ‘English for Everyone’ and early English instruction in many developing countries. These policy initiatives and their implem...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Richard B. Baldauf
ABSTRACT Rural failure in English learning and the socioeconomics of ELT. Over 24 million children learn English as a second/foreign language in primary and secondary schools in Bangladesh. These children start learning the language as a required subject in Grade 1 and continue learning it (if they ...
Tauhid Hossain Khan, Ellen MacEachen
Although social constructionism (SC) and Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) are well established constructionist analytical methods, this article propose that Foucauldian discourse analysis is more useful for qualitative data analysis as it examines social legitimacy. While the SC is able to illum...
Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Md Shaiful Islam, Abdul Karim, Takad Ahmed Chowdhury et al.
Given the significance of English in the global world, English language teaching in Bangladesh has become subject to a supreme concern in maintaining economic growth and developing a skilled workforce. In this article, several barriers have been discussed based on a critical analysis of published ma...
Peter I. De Costa, Curtis Green‐Eneix, Wendy Li
Language policies generally seek to establish, regulate, and conform linguistic practices – whether explicit or implicit – that occur within an ‘authorized’ domain. While there are multiple levels (societal, institutional, and interpersonal) at which such policies are enacted (Hornberger & Johns...
Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Ambigapathy Pandian
The 2016 World Bank report on worldwide per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) identified Bangladesh as a lower middle-income country based on its consistent GDP growth throughout last decade (World Bank, 2016). To maintain this growth rate and meet the radical demand for human resources in increas...
Birgit Meyer
Introduction: From Imagined Communities to Aesthetic Formations: Religious Mediations, Sensational Forms and Styles of Binding B.Meyer PART I: BOUNDARY POLITICS 'Don't ask questions, just observe!': Boundary Politics in Bahian Candomble M.van de Port Purity and the Devil: Community, Media and the Bo...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen
This paper focuses on English teachers in Asia in the context of globalization, the global spread of English and the emergence of English as an "Asian language". It highlights the dilemmas facing these teachers in meeting the growing social demands of English proficiency in a technology-influenced, ...
Sadia Sultana
This paper reports on a mixed-method study that explored the effect of English as a medium of instruction. It specifically focuses on the academic discourse and socialisation experiences of 1st year students in universities of Bangladesh. A questionnaire survey of 115 students and interviews with st...
Ian Tudor, F.M. Hafiz
ABSTRACT A group of ESL learners (n = 16) in the UK were given a 3‐month extensive reading programme involving graded readers to test the hypothesis that input of this nature could effect an improvement in their L2 competence. Comparison of pre‐and post‐treatment tests in reading and writing indicat...
Alistair Cormack
Migration and the Politics of Narrative Form:Realism and the Postcolonial Subject in Brick Lane Alistair Cormack (bio) Monica Ali's 2003 novel of Bangladeshi immigrants in London, Brick Lane, has been a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic. Because it is a realist narrative with a postcolonial...
Md. Maksud Ali, Ann Walker
Hamid & Baldauf's (2008) labelling of the term ‘bogged down’ within the Bangladeshi ELT context and their prediction about the outcome of the English Language Teaching Improvement Project (ELTIP) appear to be true. While Hamid & Baldauf (2008) endeavour to present the poor ELT reality of rur...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Eileen Honan
Globalisation and the global spread of English have led nation-states to introduce English into the early years of schooling to equip their citizens with communicative competence in order to compete within a global economy for individual and national development. In teaching English as a Second/Fore...
Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Manjet Kaur Mehar Singh
New norms of linguistic ideology and practices emerged as English grows in higher education in non-English speaking countries. English Medium Instruction (EMI) has been formalised by overlooking the role of other (e.g. native) languages in knowledge construction and communication. This study investi...