Raqib ChowdhuryMonash University (Australia) · Faculty of Education
Raqib Chowdhury
BA (Hons.) MA MEd PhD
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Introduction
Raqib taught English literature at the University of Dhaka from 1997 to 2004 and then joined the Monash Faculty of Education in 2008. He holds a BA (English), an MA (English Literature) and an MEd (TESOL). His latest books are from Springer (2018), Monash University Publishers (2019), and Routledge (2019). He is currently co-authoring a monograph entitled 'The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh: The Politics of Intervention and Control' (upcoming from Routledge, 2020).
Raqib is involved in a number of international collaborative projects involving Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and China on the themes of higher education reform, teacher training and professional development, and research capacity building.
Additional affiliations
November 2014 - present
Position
- Visiting Lecturer
Description
- Courses taught: Sociolinguistics for Language Teachers, Research Methodology in Education
July 2009 - present
June 2003 - January 2009
Education
April 2004 - August 2008
March 2000 - July 2001
September 1995 - September 1996
Publications
Publications (63)
This exploratory study investigated Vietnamese secondary students’ engagement
in a sequence of detecting, correcting, and rewriting tasks, and examined the
factors affecting their engagement and/or disengagement in the process. The study
draws on the principles of task-based instruction, involving eight mixed-ability
groups (n = 31), and was de...
This paper critically analyses 52 Australian and 68 Pakistani pre-service teachers’ (PST) perceptions of professional standards for teachers enabling the comparison of teacher preparation in the two countries. A multivariate analysis of variance tested the hypothesis that an integrated standards-based teacher preparation program was more effective...
This article critically explores the understandings about the English academic literacy needs of international graduate students from the perspective of academic teaching staff in a Faculty of Education at a large Australian university. Research suggests that international graduate students for whom English is another language, on coming to English...
Our pre-pandemic hubris of touting our times as an advanced digital age has given way to misgivings and scepticism as we slowly realise the limits of technological advances and how our teaching and learning practices have not been able to completely sever from age-old traditions. With unprecedented changes triggered by the global pandemic which saw...
Critically considering the history of educational assessment, this analysis problematizes
the way in which certain constructions of assessment have achieved
privileged status over others in the past two centuries in Western discourses,
particularly in the US educational landscape. The analysis adopts the position that
a centralized, authoritarian c...
This paper reports one best-practice in assessing the public speaking performance of advanced students at an Indonesian public university. The study involves an English course for an advanced class which was primarily related to public speaking skills. Considering that speaking is a productive skill that should be assessed through authentic assessm...
The aim of this research was to assess teacher educators' knowledge, perceptions and understanding of the Strengthening Teacher Education in Pakistan (STEP) project which was designed to develop professional standards for teachers in Pakistan. Using a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews, data were collected from teacher educators (...
The sociolinguistic development of English has placed a greater emphasis on intelligibility as the ultimate goal of pronunciation instruction. However, various studies have indicated that English pronunciation of Indonesian English learners was not satisfactory due to difficulties in learning English pronunciation and lack of emphasis given to the...
As a flexible and effective communication system for Non-Native Speakers of English (NNS), English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a frequently mentioned concept in the current literature on ELT. This study investigates if the problems encountered in the teaching of English pronunciation to Non-Native English Speakers (NNS) can be alleviated in Banglad...
A recently published review essay, co-authored by by Lee-Tat Chow and Peidong Yang, on desire, TESOL, and international education, based on two books from Phan Le-Ha:
1. Desiring TESOL and international education", by Raqib Chowdhury and Phan Le-Ha , London, Multilingual Matters, 2014, 288 pp., £29.95 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-783-09147-8; and
2. T...
Dear Graduate Research students,
Attached is a Call for Papers for the 2019 International Graduate Research Symposium to be held at the University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University (ULIS-VNU) on 25-27 October 2019.
I had the privilege of being a keynote speaker at last year’s conference at Vietnam’s top university....
Written primarily for new or early-career researchers and postgraduate students, this paper problematises some of the foundational concepts any beginning researcher will come across when conducting research for the first time. Understanding the oft-confused, abstract, yet important notions of ontology, epistemology and paradigms can be a daunting o...
Transformation and Empowerment through Education challenges the normalisation of Western discourses as the optimal choice for empowering education. The book aims to reconstruct our relationship with education and employs contemporary theories in order to understand some of the most persistent phenomena in contemporary education and its role in our...
In rural Bangladesh, most people speak English with a regional accent which is generally not intelligible to Non-Native Bengali Speakers (NBS). Although NBS understand each other, this type of pronunciation creates problems for many Bangladeshis, like handicapping students studying abroad, professionals migrating to Anglophone countries, tourists a...
For international students undertaking higher education in English-speaking countries, often social and academic competencies are at odds with the expectations of the classroom discourse communities and the normative behaviours and practices of these communities. This conceptual paper argues that despite some scholarly studies seeing such internati...
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 users, relatively little attention has been paid hithe...
The recent decades have seen major—and in some cases unprecedented—changes in Bangladesh’s education sector, sometimes in ways distinct from other countries in the region and globally. Given its history of nearly two centuries of British colonial rule, as well as a religion- and language-based national identity that eventually saw the country trans...
The pervasive binary that has divided ‘research-incapable’ school teachers from university academics has often led school teachers to believe that research is the prerogative task of so-called ‘experts’ in education – university academics, while their job is merely to translate and implement the results of research. Even if school teachers were to...
Beginning with the concept that the way we think of social justice will depend on our understanding of who we are, Equity, Identity and Social Justice in Asia Pacific Education recognises and responds to the wide range of contextual and cultural perspectives that inform notions of social justice across Asia Pacific educational environments. While f...
This paper presents a systematic qualitative review of relevant literature, documents and reports, and critically discusses issues facing international students undertaking work-integrated learning (WIL) activities as part of their higher education in Australia. Initiatives utilised to better support international students on these WIL placements a...
This chapter critically examines how education has been used as an instrument through which state and international machineries have enacted and realised their neoliberal agendas and political priorities in the context of Bangladesh. In particular, the paper attempts to understand the struggle between private and public bodies of interest and the r...
The increased politicisation of the question of 'who is Indigenous' can be seen as a result of success in the attainment of legal recognition – often through international laws – of Indigenous peoples around the world. Consequently, international organisations, host states, non-governmental organisations and researchers have each attempted to devel...
The increased politicisation of the question of ‘who is Indigenous’ can be seen as a result of success in the attainment of legal recognition – often through international laws – of Indigenous peoples around the world. Consequently, international organisations, host states, non-governmental organisations and researchers have each attempted to devel...
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 education system and effectively exile English from...
This book addresses how Western universities have constructed themselves as global providers of education, and are driven to be globally competitive. It examines how the term ‘international’ has been exploited by the market in the form of government educational policies and agencies, host institutions,
academia and the mass media. The book explores...
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781783091478
This book addresses how Western universities have constructed themselves as global providers of education, and are driven to be globally competitive. It examines how the term international has been exploited by the market in the form of government educational policies and agencies, ho...
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?k=9781783091478
From a critical needs analysis perspective, EAP practice is an essentially pragmatic undertaking which requires an optimised understanding of local contexts and the needs of particular students. This chapter reports a case study of a first-year compulsory EAP course tailored to support English undergraduates at Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Over th...
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 significance to policy makers. This paper has explored the hitherto unstudied re...
With an increased number of Iraqi families arriving in Australia during the last decade, it is important to understand factors influencing their English learning, especially how they are faced with difficulties in English language learning and the impact of gender in this process. This qualitative case study, which examines the role of gender in En...
As English language learners move from their home culture to a new context where the need for English use become intensively enhanced, a number of sociocultural and educational factors come into play governing English learners’ motivation, practice, and perception – all of which suddenly become subject to change and re-evaluation. The article is sh...
As in other South Asian countries, the globalisation of English and a coincident growing demand for competent users of the English language have placed an increasingly greater emphasis on English Language Teaching (ELT) in Bangladesh. In acknowledgement, the government has introduced changes in educational policy to improve the quality of ELT in Ba...
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 language teaching (CLT) approach. To facilitate the...
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 applied was not considered. Here university EFL teac...
This research examines the various facets of the implementation of CLT – the unchallenged ‘tyger’ of the West - in Bangladesh and the politicisation processes in educational policies in today’s world. The literature discussed collectively suggests a degree of pessimism concerning the implementation of CLT - an essentially international phenomenon -...
Projects
Projects (3)
1. To transcribe the pronunciations (any standard) of English words using the easy to learn/teach/use phonetic alphabet, HPA. For multi-syllabic words the transcriptions will show two adjacent syllables with a space in between and syllables which are to be stressed will be highlighted in red.
2. To publish a paper version of an English Pronunciation Dictionary for Hindi Speakers (EPDH) containing HPA transcriptions of the RP pronunciations of about 30,000 commonly used English words. The dictionary may be used by students in remote schools and colleges when someone wants to get the pronunciation of an English word encountered for the first time and where they do not have access to a pronunciation expert .
3. To develop a free EPDH APP to run on mobile phones and other Android devices with RP and GA pronunciations - both in HPA and audio.
4. To research and develop a South Asian English pronunciation standard which will be intelligible to both NNS and NS and acceptable to the relevant authorities of all South Asian countries.
Facilitate the development of training programs for improving the English Pronunciation of English Learners in rural Bangladesh by identified English Teachers who are well trusted community leaders.
Through a new generation of mainly western-trained education researchers, Bangladesh has ushered into a new phase of understanding in educational research and the proposed book promises to reflect the paradigm shift now manifested in Bangladesh’s education through empirical research.
