Shaila Sultana, Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook
The paper explores the use of varied semiotic resources in the linguistic, social and cultural practices of young adults in the context of Bangladesh and Mongolia. Based on a translinguistic analysis (including pre-textual history, contextual relations, sub-textual meaning, intertextual echoes and p...
Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Patraporn Tungpunkom, Farhana Sultana et al.
BACKGROUND: The current pandemic of COVID-19 impacted the psychological wellbeing of populations globally. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to examine the extent and identify factors associated with psychological distress, fear of COVID-19 and coping. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study across 17 coun...
Sender Dovchin, Shaila Sultana, Alastair Pennycook
This article seeks to expand the current discussions on the notion of ‘translingual Englishes’ by incorporating the idea of ‘unequal Englishes’ as a way of understanding the role of English in relation to understudied Asian peripheral contexts such as Mongolia and Bangladesh. It is clear that young ...
Shaila Sultana, Sender Dovchin
This paper seeks to reveal the out of classroom digital linguistic practices of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students in the peripheral Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Mongolia - contexts that have rarely been addressed in previous research. It is based on two digital ethnog...
Shaila Sultana
This paper contributes to a recent development in Applied Linguistics that encourages research from trans- approaches. Drawing on the results of an ethnographic research project carried out in a university of Bangladesh. It is illustrated how young adults actively and reflexively use a mixture of co...
Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook, Shaila Sultana
Kingsley Bolton, Werner Botha, Benedict Lin
This handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide. It highlights issues relating to EMI pedagogy, varying motivations for EMI education, and the delivery of EMI in diverse contexts across the world. The ...
Sender Dovchin, Shaila Sultana, Alastair Pennycook
The translingual practices of young Mongolians and Bangladeshis suggest that contrary to those popular discourses which position youth as passive recipients of global culture, these young adults are better understood as actively and powerfully engaged with popular culture productions. Drawing on the...
Shaila Sultana, Sender Dovchin, Alastair Pennycook
Focusing on online interactions among young adults in Bangladesh and Mongolia – two countries located politically, culturally and economically on the Asian periphery – this paper looks at how young adults use linguistic and cultural resources in their online interactions as part of a complex and eme...
Shaila Sultana
Abstract Considering the contradictions in the structured and static approaches to the nation and national identity observed world-wide and fluid trans - approaches to language in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, the paper explores how national identity is constructed and sustained nowadays...
Sinthyia Ahmed, Rumana Mahtarin, Sayeda Samina Ahmed, Shaila Akter et al.
SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak poses a major threat to humans worldwide due to its highly contagious nature. In this study, molecular docking, molecular dynamics, and structure-activity relationship are employed to assess the binding affinity and interaction of 76 prescription drugs against RNA dependent...
Shaila Sultana, Ana Deumert
Shaila Sultana
Languages are at the centre of nationalistic discourses across South Asia since they have played a historically and politically significant role in defining nationhood and both uniting and dividing countries throughout the British Empire. Despite multilingualism and multiculturalism, and vast differ...
Shaila Sultana
While much attention has been paid to the creativity, hybridity, and fluidity employed in translingual practices, their role in challenging monolingual biases and ideologies, and fostering translingual dispositions against linguistic inequality, it is now important to focus on the politics underlyin...
Shaila Sultana