Prodhan Mahbub Mahbub Ibna Seraj

American International University-Bangladesh | AIUB · Department of English

This paper describes the digital storytelling task applied in speaking class of second year students of English Study Program, including advantages students achieve from storytelling and technology integration as well as suggestions for classroom implementation. The necessity for students to use effective written communication and to be technologic...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, international higher education and student mobility have faced tremendous pressure and challenges. To address COVID-induced challenges and stress, higher education institutions and host governments undertook responses. This article has humanistically looked into the institutional responses of host universities and gover...

The article talks about a top-down process of evaluating textbooks and teaching materials in English language classrooms.

This research aims to determine the effectiveness of language learning strategies in writing descriptive text in an open area. Also, this research is subject to investigate the significant difference in students’ achievement before and after implementing learning strategies in writing using descriptive text in an open area. The researchers applied...

As part of the human-computer interaction (HCI) that arti cial intelligence has, it has a speci c e ect on developing critical thinking skills, which is what this study is looking at. e purpose of this study was to determine the impact of AI friend apps on EFoLLe (English foreign language learners) interactions with technology. e primary focus of t...

This review paper provides an overview of the use of applications of smartphones, target language skills, methodology, and EFL contexts from the studies published between 2010 and January 2020. As per the time frame and parameters followed by the PRISMA model, 45 of 2707 studies were retrieved from four reputable online databases, namely Springer l...

Mobile technologies have drawn the attention of the researchers and are gaining popularity in a variety of academic backgrounds. However, there is currently unavailability of studies on the benefits that various mobile technologies give to learning results. The objective of this current study was to examine how the mobile assisted language programm...

Digital comics are proven to be an effective learning tool for both teachers and students. At the university level, this study was set out to find the views of second-semester students on the use of Mangatoon digital comics in reading instruction. A quantitative study was performed, involving second-semester students at the Universitas of Al Asyari...

ere have been extensive studies that have investigated the favourable impacts of ipped classroom instruction regarding the introductory language/ rst language (i.e., L1) setting. However, there is limited research about the e ect of ipped classroom instruction in foreign language backdrop in Asia, particularly in Bangladesh. e purpose of this study...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide range of effects on education at all levels worldwide. After an unexpected, emergency and forced move from face-to-face to online platform for teaching-learning and assessment, teachers and learners were left scrambling to adjust and adapt. Concerning the importance of the above matters, this systematic review p...

The traditional landscape of Bangladesh and recent maritime boundary delimitation with its neighbouring countries (India and Myanmar) have opened a new horizon of potentials for its sustainable economic growth. But it demands diverse professional people in the maritime sector. Specialised maritime education and training (MET) is needed to avail the...

Morphological knowledge has been established as a critical sub-skill in the learning of bilingual reading and a strong predictor of spelling, word reading, and reading comprehension skills. The goal of this study was to investigate the prediction of morphological knowledge to reading comprehension in 185 university-level English as a Foreign Langua...

This study aims to examine the EFL teachers' perception of their readiness to use different smartphone applications for teaching oral skills at the tertiary level in Bangladesh and compares this to the relevant demographic factors. To reach these objectives, a mixed method research design was implemented. A survey questionnaire was answered by 46 E...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of the contrastive lexical approach on Iranian EFL learners' writing skills. For this study, forty pre-intermediate students from a private English language institutes in Ahvaz, Iran were selected. Then, they were randomly divided into two equal groups of 20; one experimental and one control group. To have...

Purpose Sustainability has globally become a mantra to address complex and unprecedented survival, social, political and peace issues. Higher education institutions bear responsibility to address them. This paper aims to explore barriers that Pakistani public universities (PPUs) face in embedding sustainability at their campuses. This paper also of...

This paper aims at exploring the issues related to implementing a formative assessment model namely School-Based Assessment (SBA) at secondary schools in Bangladesh. A qualitative study employing interviews with English teachers of grade 8 and the head teachers and FGDs with students from twelve secondary schools was conducted. Moreover, field note...

Authors' contributions: A-Study design; B-Data collection; C-Statistical analysis; D-Manuscript Preparation; E-Funds Collection. Abstract Background and Study Aim COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all spheres of human life. This study presents the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports activities and the life of sportsmen. It is analysed the interc...

Many of the first-year undergraduate students who enrol in universities, particularly in top-ranked private universities in Bangladesh, struggle with getting good grades. As a result, many students look forward to a bleak future, dropping out midway through their studies. Thus, improving the rates of graduation and reducing the rates of attrition i...

This paper presents the findings of a study which aimed at exploring the washback of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) English examinations on English teaching and learning practice at secondary schools in Bangladesh. For this purpose, a qualitative research (employing interviews with English teachers, FGDs with students and classroom observat...

The use of mobile devices for English language teaching (ELT) is increasing rapidly all over the world. This review study surveys the empirical research on using mobile phones in ELT published in Scopus and Web of Science indexing journals from 2010 to 2020 in Bangladesh. Out of 103 studies, 11 studies met the criteria of this study to analyze the...

Ensuring the practice of providing feedback to learners’ work in different strata of education is a challenging one. The number of researches in this issue identifying the factors that hinder feedback culture in education is still not adequate. Hence, the main objective of this review work is to pinpoint the most commonly studied feedback factors t...

The objective of this systematic review is to present a critical overview of current studies to explore issues such as the factors causing EFL learners’ poor oral performance and the teaching and assessment methods of oral English communication skills (OECSs) for developing tertiary level learners’ OECSs in EFL contexts. For this purpose, 51 empiri...

An in-depth investigation of vocabulary depth knowledge by lexical researchers plays a prominent role in language learning and teaching. The objectives of the present study were to investigate the extent of relationship and prediction of the three constitutes of vocabulary depth knowledge (i.e., analytic relations, morphological knowledge, and dept...

The present research focuses on discursive practices of political activists and media persons on Twitter by drawing on the discourse-centred online ethnography for critical discourse analysis of the interactions. Studying these interactions, we argue that political activists' resistance against mainstream media persons' commentary serves to discred...

Although a good number of studies have been conducted on the problems EFL learners face to develop oral English communication skills, only a few studies tackled the problems EFL teachers face when teaching oral English communication skills at the tertiary level globally and in the Bangladeshi EFL context. Thus, the objectives of this study are to e...

Given the significance of English in the global world, English language teaching in Bangladesh has become subject to a supreme concern in maintaining economic growth and developing a skilled workforce. In this article, several barriers have been discussed based on a critical analysis of published materials. This review article covers several key is...

Although extensive research has been carried out to investigate EFL learners’ readiness of using smartphone and problems in EFL contexts, there remains a scarcity of evidence on EFL learners’ readiness of using smartphone and problems for learning oral English communication skills at tertiary level in EFL context, especially in Bangladesh. The pres...

Purpose of the study: An in-depth investigation of vocabulary depth knowledge by lexical researchers plays an important role in language learning and teaching. The present study examined vocabulary depth knowledge of Business EFL learners and its correlation and prediction to academic reading comprehension, employing morphological knowledge and ana...

The closure of the physical classroom in Bangladesh at the tertiary level during the COVID-19 Pandemic has left private university students and teachers dependent on e-learning platform. The E-learning teaching environment is an unprecedented experience for most teachers and students; furthermore, they have limited or no experience with it. This pa...

In this digital era, English is such a lingua franca which is important to fill up our daily offline and online communication activities in all spheres of our life. Thus, EFL learners (graduate level) need to be skilled in oral English communication in functioning professional operation effectively in future career. It is observed that a graduate w...

Given the significance of English in the global world, English language teaching in Bangladesh has become subject to a supreme concern in maintaining economic growth and developing a skilled workforce. In this article, several barriers have been discussed based on a critical analysis of published materials. This review article covers several key is...

Speaking is a productive language skill which is responsible for speakers and listeners to make oral communication for exchanging and sharing information to build comprehensive relationship. English is such a language having global demand to perform all levels of communication for the learners from different L1 backgrounds. But, for EFL learners, l...

Genre theory has been introduced to mainland China since 1990s; since then, there have been many researchers in Chinese academia working on this area. This meta-analysis reviews journal papers published on core journals indexed by CNKI (the biggest China Academic Journals Online Database) from 1998 to 2018, with searching keywords include Genre and...

Language is a medium of communication. Through language we express our feelings, emotions, thoughts, behaviours etc. To acquire second language is a big challenge in the context of Bangladesh (Graddo, 2006:22), in his study of global trends surrounding English, comments: 'One the one hand, the availability of English as a global language is acceler...

This paper aims at picking up to show how and where are the dissimilarities and similarities on the surface structure of basic syntax of Bangla and English language. The study focuses on the importance of contrastive analysis in teaching English in the context of Bangla (Ll). From my investigation, it is noticed that contrastive analysis is useful...

In order to bring about qualitative change in the teaching learning practice in English classrooms, English in Action (EIA) is introducing various methods and techniques. The aim of this article is to explore how this change is influencing the mind of the learners at secondary schools. It will discover the change of learners' perceptions towards le...

This paper investigated problems with English pronunciation among secondary level students, identifying key reasons for the pronunciation problems and recommending solutions. lt begins with discussing the value of intelligible pronunciation and reviewing the relevant literature. Next, it focus on students' pronunciation problems with consonants and...

This paper aims to pick up some problems and give some suggestions to learn speaking and listening skills through CLT at Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) level. Speaking and listening which are very important to communicate through target language are two of the four language skills. Speaking is a productive skill whereas listening is a receptive...