Research
Comparative Acceptability of GTM and CLT to the Teachers of Rural Secondary High Schools in Bangladesh
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been innovated in the secondary (and the higher secondary) level of education in Bangladesh by drastically devaluing the principles of the long-practiced traditional Grammar Translation Method (GTM). The present study was carried out on some rural secondary high school teachers in Bangladesh about comparative acceptability of GTM and CLT in respects of achieving four skills, accuracy/ fluency, translating activity, group/pair works, and classroom language. The result of the study reflected their mixed attitude to GTM and CLT, though all of them put emphasis on language learning through translating activity in group/pair works. Their tendency and claims were in favor of the multisyllabus. On the basis of the data findings this paper also presents some suggestions for appropriate methodology in ELT in Bangladesh.
Exploring Linguistic Impairments of the Patients of Brocaas Aphasia and Wernickeas Aphasia in Bangladesh
Language performance of human beings is inseparably related to their brain. There are some specific areas in the brain that are responsible for language understanding, organizing and producing. Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area are two such types of crucial areas of the brain which are, if affected or injured, responsible for linguistic problems, respectively known as Broca’s Aphasia and Wernicke’s Aphasia. Aphasia is a disorder of communication that impairs a person’s ability to use and comprehend language. Broca’s Aphasia is recognizable when the person affected has a difficulty in speech production, writing and finding specific words. A patient of Wernicke’s aphasia may produce normal speeches but they are nearly nonsensical and irrelevant. His/her difficulty is in comprehending others’ messages. The present study has investigated the linguistic behavior of some patients of Broca’s Aphasia and Wernicke’s Aphasia in Bangladesh and shows proximity of the empirical findings with the theoretical claims.
Parallel Presentation of Positive and Negative Sides of Igbo Culture in Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe’s magnum opus Things Fall Apart reflects authentic presentation of the Igbo society. Various social, political, economic, religious, psychological and personal issues of the Igbo people have been put forward by the author in this ethnographic novel. Achebe has depicted these issues from the perspective of both an observer and a critic. The ethnographic depiction of the Igbo life indicates that Chinua Achebe has tried to maintain his objective stance in the novel. He is not biased at all. It is evident in his contrastive presentation of the culture and beliefs of the Igbo; in one hand, he presents the constructive and rational side of the Igbo, on the other hand, he highlights their follies and irrational beliefs too. Achebe as an original Igbo expectedly presents the riches and potentialities of the Igbo society. But at the same time he is not uncritical of the limitations of his society where he belongs to. The present study has dealt with Achebe’s audacious attempt to present the limitations and follies of Igbo life in Things Fall Apart.
Reading Achebeas Things Fall Apart from the Perspective of Cesaireas Discourse on Colonialism
This article attempts to study Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart from the perspectives put forward in Aime Cesaire’s anti-colonial text Discourse on Colonialism. For this purpose various thematic key-issues found in Discourse on Colonialism are studied first. These thematic key-issues include old African societies, representation, colonial effects, colonial Christianity, decolonization, flaws of civilization etc. In the text Aime Cesaire has strongly dealt with these issues. Then, in this paper each of these issues is thoroughly attempted on the basis of their having treated in Things Fall Apart. Finally, this paper shows that Things Fall Apart can well be analyzed by considering all the thematic concerns voiced by Cesaire.
