Raqib Chowdhury, Ariful Haq Kabir
Since its relatively recent independence in 1971, a total of seven national Education Commissions were formed, all of which placed various degrees of emphasis on the planning, pedagogy and learning of English in Bangladesh. Although the first Education Commission in 1974 aimed to 'decolonise' the ed...
Raqib Chowdhury, Phan Lê Hà
The increasing demand for competent users of English in the era of globalisation has had a significant impact on English Language Teaching (ELT) in Bangladesh. Among a number of changes to improve the quality of ELT, teachers of English have been encouraged, even required, to adopt a communicative l...
Rubhana Raqib, S. M. Shahjahan Mia, Firdausi Qadri, Tanfis I. Alam et al.
An array of pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators of the innate immune system was analyzed in stool, urine, and rectal mucosa samples from adults and children with shigellosis to better understand their role in recovery from and in the immunopathogenesis of the disease. Increased concentrations of la...
Roy Sk, Rubhana Raqib, Wajiha Khatun, Tasnim Azim et al.
Objective To assess the impact of zinc supplementation on clinical recovery, weight gain and subsequent growth and morbidity in moderately malnourished children with shigellosis. Design A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial. Setting Dhaka hospital of ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population ...
Mohammod Moninoor Roshid, Raqib Chowdhury
Accepted: 13.02.2013 Recent literature has suggested that the relationship between globalisation and the English language implicates employability in the job market. Although the effects are uneven in different occupational groups and in different countries, such relationship is growing in significa...
Raqib Chowdhury
This article reports on a study examining the implementation of communicative language teaching (CLT) in Bangladesh in general and at the University of Dhaka in particular. When CLT was first introduced across Europe, the English as a foreign language (EFL) context in which it would inevitably be ap...
Raqib Chowdhury, Mahbub Sarkar
Mohammod Moninoor Roshid, Sue Webb, Raqib Chowdhury
In the current world of business, English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF) is used in both spoken and written communication and underpinned by the paradigm of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). While a number of research studies have been conducted exploring the spoken discourse facets of BELF user...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Dewan S Alam, Ismail Ibrahim Fakir, Sheikh Daud Adnan et al.
During recent decades, Bangladesh has experienced a rapid epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases. Coronary heart disease (CHD), with myocardial infarction (MI) as its main manifestation, is a major cause of death in the country. However, there is limited reliable e...
Ahsan H. Khandoker, Veena Luthra, Yousef Abouallaban, Simanto Saha et al.
Globally suicidal behavior is the third most common cause of death among patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). This study presents multi-lag tone-entropy (T-E) analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) as a screening tool for identifying MDD patients with suicidal ideation. Sixty-one ECG rec...
Rubhana Raqib, Dinesh Mondal, M. Anwarul Karim, Fahima Chowdhury et al.
Diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in children is difficult because symptoms are often nonspecific or absent in infected children, diagnostic specimens are difficult to obtain from younger children, and >50% have negative TB cultures. Thus, there is an urgent need for improved diagnosis of pediatric TB....
Tashnia Tahsin, Rasheda Khanam, Nabidul Haque Chowdhury, A. S. M. Tarik Hasan et al.
Abstract Background Each year, an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm. Micronutrient deficiencies, including vitamin D deficiency (VDD), are common in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and these conditions are often associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Bangladesh experie...
Mohammad Raqibul Hasan Siddique, Mahmood Hossain, Md. Rezaul Karim Chowdhury
Ariful Haq Kabir, Raqib Chowdhury
This book problematises contemporary realities of the political dimension of the privatisation of higher education in Bangladesh. By exploring the complexities of neoliberalism as an economic and ideological doctrine, a mode of governance, and as a policy package, it considers the 'post' attached to...
Mohammad Al-Forkan, Fahmida Binta Wali, Laila Khaleda, Md. Jibran Alam et al.
Inorganic arsenic (iAs) exposure has been reported to have an impact on cardiovascular diseases (CVD). However, there is not much known about the cardiac tissue injury of CVD patients in relation to iAs exposure and potential role of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of genes related to iAs met...