M. Obaidul Hamid, Asaduzzaman Khan, Monjurul Islam
Although research on private tutoring has gained visibility in recent years, private tutoring in English (PT-E) has not received notable attention. This paper examines students’ perceptions of PT-E in Bangladesh in terms of its necessity and helpfulness, peer pressure in PT-E participation and ethic...
M. Obaidul Hamid
This contribution documents the author’s lived experiences in his fieldwork for his PhD research in the field of English as a second/foreign language in a familiar social setting in Bangladesh. The account suggests that insider researchers can helpfully draw on their tacit knowledge of local social ...
Md. Maksud Ali, M. Obaidul Hamid, Ian Hardy
Although use of high-stakes tests is common across developing societies, very little is known about how these tests are designed, what principles and criteria guide test construction, and what factors influence this process. The present study investigates the development of the English Paper-1 test ...
1. Medium of instruction in Asia: Context, process and outcomes M. Obaidul Hamid, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen and Richard B. Baldauf Jr 2. 'English-only', but not a medium-of-instruction policy: the Japanese way of internationalising education for both domestic and overseas students Kayoko Hashimoto 3. Will ...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Richard B. Baldauf
While macro-level language policy and planning (LPP) that is done mainly by governments still dominates thinking in the field, limitations of this focus have been demonstrated by recent broader and more focused conceptualizations of LPP. For instance, global LPP, particularly for languages of wider ...
M. Obaidul Hamid
M. Obaidul Hamid
Abstract Drawing on the epistemologies of the Global South and the sociolinguistic reality of English in postcolonial Bangladesh, this article conceptualises English as a Southern language. This conception recognises the imperative of English for postcolonial societies in an English-dominant world w...
M. Obaidul Hamid
This paper reports data from the author’s PhD research which examined, among other issues, relationships between secondary school students’ family socio-economic characteristics and their academic achievement in English in a rural sub-district in Bangladesh. The data show that the rural students had...
M. Obaidul Hamid
The ‘social turn’ in applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA) has seen the emergence of a range of socially-oriented perspectives, such as sociolinguistic, sociocultural, socio-historical and situated learning, yet this has not resulted in L2 learners’ social origins and backgrounds...
Abdul Karim, Md Shaiful Islam, M. Obaidul Hamid, Mohammad Mosiur Rahman et al.
Abstract The current study aims at unpacking the language ideologies of the STEM + Business graduates in relation to English medium instruction (EMI) and how they perceive the contribution of EMI towards English proficiency development. It also intended to unfold the extent to which EMI education ma...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Md. Maksud Ali
Abstract This article examines English language teaching (ELT) policy, textbooks, and pedagogy in the neo‐nationalist era that followed 9/11 in Muslim‐majority Bangladesh. Informed by the Douglas Fir Group's transdisciplinary framework of second language learning, the examination substantiates the i...
Md. Maksud Ali, M. Obaidul Hamid
Abstract Although washback has been widely explored by applied linguists and education researchers, little attention has been paid to teacher agency in relation to it. It is critical to understand how language teachers navigate their pedagogy and respond to the broader curricular goals at a time whe...
M. Obaidul Hamid
The aim of this small-scale research was to gain some understanding of Bangladeshi English language teachers’ language preference for publication purposes and the extent of the use of Bangla (Bengali), the L1, in their professional practice. Qualitative data for the study were gathered by means of a...
M. Obaidul Hamid
The research reported in the study was undertaken to measure English language teachers’ ability to interpret second language learners’ intended meanings in idiosyncratic utterances in written English. In doing so, it also aimed at verifying Corder's (1981) speculation that language teachers can corr...