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...
Abdul Karim, Faheem Hasan Shahed, Abdul Rashid Mohamed, Mohammad Mosiur Rahman et al.
Pre-service teacher education programs such as, TEFL, TESOL, and ELT are offered in some universities in Bangladesh. Meeting the criteria and based on their level, students tend to enroll in BA in TEFL or TESOL and MA in TESOL or ELT programs. These programs entail different courses that are claimed...
Abdul Karim, Faheem Hasan Shahed, Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Abdul Rashid Mohamed
The ubiquity with regard to technology and availability of social media offered an unorthodox avenue to impart education. Concerning language teaching and learning, the meticulous use of such online platforms has been overtly observed. They become didactic concerning the issue that typical classroom...
Abdul Karim, Liza Reshmin, Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan, Faheem Hasan Shahed et al.
The construction of teacher beliefs through teacher education programs and their impact on classroom practices has drawn enormous attention in the concurrent literature. Yet in Bangladesh, little is known about the construction of teacher beliefs through teacher education programs and the impact of ...
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia, Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Monabbir Johan, Sheikh Mohammad Masud Selim et al.
The study focuses on the implementation of communicative English language curriculum reform of four secondary school teachers in Bangladesh. The study is explorative, interpretive, and qualitative in nature. A phenomenology approach, under the qualitative method, was adopted to explore how teachers ...
Mohammad Mosiur Rahman, Ambigapathy Pandian, Abdul Karim, Faheem Hasan Shahed
This article addresses the effect of age in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), posing the relative question that whether the Critical Period hypothesis (CPH) exists in Second Language (SL), and if existing, how it is associated duly with SLA. The justification of comparing the achievement of L1 and ...
Faheem Hasan Shahed
As regards the status of English in today's globalization era, 'culture' has turned out to be an essential component in the teaching and learning of English. Some Applied Linguists have even described it as the fifth skill”after listening, speaking, reading and writing”which must be handled adequate...
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Abdul Karim, Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan, Sayeedur Rahman et al.
The function of donor-sponsored teacher training programs is a commonly observed phenomenon in many English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) countries. Since the mid-1990s, Bangladesh has been in the process of continuing donor-aided teacher training programs for En...
Abdul Karim, Zohur Ahmed, Faheem Hasan Shahed, Mohammad Mosiur Rahman et al.
Numerous donor-sponsored in-service training programs have been operated in Bangladesh for English language teachers. EIA was the last donor-funded project that incorporated school-based training. It claimed to acquaint teachers with technology coupled with a lot of interactive activities to be inco...
Faheem Hasan Shahed
Abdul Karim, Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan, Sayeedur Rahman, Faheem Hasan Shahed et al.
The function of donor-sponsored teacher training programs is a commonly observed phenomenon in many English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) countries. Since the mid-1990s, Bangladesh has been in the process of continuing donor-aided teacher training programs for En...
Nadia Zamal Chowdhury, Faheem Hasan Shahed
This paper focuses on the role of empathy, one of the vital traits teachers are expected to possess, in the language acquisition process of Bangladeshi adult learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). It tries to assess if the presence of empathy in teachers’ approach has any significant impac...
Faheem Hasan Shahed
There has been constant furor over the declining and ineffective standard of bilingual education policy in Bangladesh. Experts have been arguing for imparting English and Bangla language education to the target groups in terms of need instead of imposing bilingualism to all citizens. This paper inve...
Faheem Hasan Shahed
The statures of Bangla and English have remained obscure in the Bangladeshi socio-academic arena regarding their application in educational, socio-cultural and professional domains. Though Bangladesh emerged as a sovereign, independent country in 1971 by virtue of an overarching momentum of Bangalee...
Nazia Masood, Faheem Hasan Shahed
In industrialized countries, conducting online classes has been a common phenomenon. However, it became quite challenging to arrange virtual classes for a developing country like Bangladesh during the COVID-19pandemic. Teachers at all levels had to cope with the situation to make a drastic shift fro...