Harunur Rashid Khan

• MA in English Lit. (JU)Dip. in TESOL (UC) MA in App. Ling. (VUW)
• Adjunct Faculty (Associate Professor) at BRAC University

In the face of sudden migration to online teaching due to Covid-19 pandemic, education is going under trying times globally, especially in the low resource contexts of the Global South. Little is, however, known about how this forced migration to and coping with emergency remote teaching (ERT) are happening in the low resource context of developing...

This paper explores ‘glocal subjectivity’ in an English language textbook produced by National Curriculum and Textbook Board of Bangladesh for Grades XI-XII. In the era of globalization (Mukherjee & Krieckhaus 2011), glocal subjectivity, i.e. creation of self that appreciates the ingredients of both global and local spaces (Gutierrez 2013) is relev...

History of English Language Education research in Bangladesh.

Though national language policy is usually considered as a tool for language management, literature on language policy and planning suggests that national language policy may be formulated to attain non-linguistic or political ends. The establishment of nation-states based on linguistic homogeneity sometimes suppresses non-national languages within...

It has long been observed by the teachers of writing in Bangladesh that students are reluctant to think and perform actively in EFL writing classrooms. This behavior is generally explained with reference to the notions of integrative vs. instrumental and intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation. In this article, we argue that cognitive behavior of studen...

It has long been observed by the teachers of writing in Bangladesh that students are reluctant to think and perform actively in EFL writing classrooms. This behavior is generally explained with reference to the notions of integrative vs. instrumental and intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation. In this article, we argue that cognitive behavior of studen...

This article reports on a mixed-method study conducted to investigate the correlation between English language teacher quality and student performance at a private university in Bangladesh. A closed questionnaire was used to generate quantitative data on teacher quality and student performance from 580 second year undergraduate students of BBA (Bac...