Papers by Kazi Mafizur Rahaman
This research attempts to explore ways of making community radio more functional to teach English... more This research attempts to explore ways of making community radio more functional to teach English language to students living in the rural areas of Bangladesh. Being a powerful media, radios, in particular, community radio has become a great source of learning and entertainment for the marginal people living far away from the mainstream education facilities. Keeping their access in consideration, this community radio is playing a pivotal role to provide different educational lessons to the learners, specifically, English language teaching-learning. Based on the needs on the community, it can enhance the English language skills of the off track learners who missed the opportunity of formal language lessons as well as the regular students. For this purpose, a qualitative survey has been conducted on a BRAC Community Empowerment Programme (CEP) Project, Radio Pollikontho FM 99.2FM. In this study, qualitative data collection tools such as FGD and individual interviews with the different stakeholders currently involved with this radio have been used. Also, for this survey, relevant documents, scripts, recorded programmes have been analyzed in the light of existing literature. All the collected data have been analyzed to formulate effective recommendations for making the radio programme more effective in teaching English. The findings of this research suggested that some critical changes are required in the current programmes. For example, content should be relevant, sentence structure must be simple, pronunciation should be included in the lessons, a prior needs analysis should be conducted to identify the needs of the community and the lesson should be targeted the requirements of the community.
This research attempts to explore ways of making community radio more functional to teach English... more This research attempts to explore ways of making community radio more functional to teach English language to students living in the rural areas of Bangladesh. Being a powerful media, radios, in particular, community radio has become a great source of learning and entertainment for the marginal people living far away from the mainstream education facilities. Keeping their access in consideration, this community radio is playing a pivotal role to provide different educational lessons to the learners, specifically, English language teaching-learning. Based on the needs on the community, it can enhance the English language skills of the off track learners who missed the opportunity of formal language lessons as well as the regular students. For this purpose, a qualitative survey has been conducted on a BRAC Community Empowerment Programme (CEP) Project, Radio Pollikontho FM 99.2FM. In this study, qualitative data collection tools such as FGD and individual interviews with the different...
Theories, concepts, person, methods related to SLA and Psycholinguistics are organized in alphabe... more Theories, concepts, person, methods related to SLA and Psycholinguistics are organized in alphabetical order in this portfolio.
This paper explores the idea of adopting the famous novella "Animal Farm" by Geoge Orwell in the ... more This paper explores the idea of adopting the famous novella "Animal Farm" by Geoge Orwell in the English Language teaching Classroom as a continuous process of incorporating literature in the language teaching classrooms. Though, for decade a higher order debate is ongoing about such integration. In the context of Communicative language teaching (CLT), to some extent, literature can be instrumental for teaching language effectively. Moreover, the paper analyzes the theme, treatment and the linguistic analysis of this masterpiece. It suggests a few the idea of using the novella in classroom setting for different level of students by the teachers around the globe.
This paper analyses the possibility of introducing an online Learning Management System (LMS) in ... more This paper analyses the possibility of introducing an online Learning Management System (LMS) in a Bangladesh Private University. EDMODO.COM a common platform and user friendly online website to be used as LMS in any developing countries in the world. It further discusses on the possible outputs and challenges to face regarding the introduction of the LMS. . Finally, the paper focuses on the solutions of the challenges to come
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Papers by Kazi Mafizur Rahaman