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Exploring Secondary English Teachers’ Perception on the Application of Sociolinguistic, Discourse and Strategic Competence

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Exploring Secondary English Teachers’ Perception on the Application of Sociolinguistic, Discourse and Strategic Competence Rohaman, A.F.M. Mijanur This study examines English teachers’ perceptions and their actual teaching of communicative competence (CC) at secondary schools in Bangladesh. A contemporary literature survey on the Bangladeshi ELT scenario demonstrates that linguistic competence is a much-emphasized component in actual teaching practices in any English classroom, the other three components remain ignored to a larger extent. Hence, the study focuses on the facilitation of sociolinguistic, discourse and strategic communicative competence through ELT. The research design is primarily qualitative in nature and the data for this research were collected using a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews. While interview data recorded the participant teachers’ perceptions of the significance of CC along the side with their reported teaching practices of sociolinguistic, discourse and strategic competencies; the questionnaire survey extracted the teachers’ understanding of the concept of communicative competence. A total of 230 secondary English teachers from four different districts from two divisions in Bangladesh took part in the questionnaire survey and 12 teachers were interviewed. The findings of this research reveal the fact that there is a discrepancy between the views of the teachers and their actual teaching practices of sociolinguistic, discourse competence and strategic competence. This thesis puts light on the scenario that the practising teachers’ application of sociolinguistic competence waves from moderate to strong, discourse competence overlays within rare or weak; and the practice of strategic competence exists from weak to moderate. Thus, it can be concluded that the holistic scenario of application of the communicative competence by secondary English teachers waves from weak to moderate. One key implication of this study is the necessity of incorporating innovative techniques for improving the skills of the teachers in the rural, urban and semi-urban contexts in Bangladesh which are to be attained through different training. Assessment strategies should be redesigned in a way that students can be assessed all the required components of communicative competence. This Thesis is Submitted to the Institute of Education and Research (IER), University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh for The Degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil).

Problems and opportunities of Education for the people living in polder areas in bangladesh: a study on rajshahi district

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Problems and opportunities of Education for the people living in polder areas in bangladesh: a study on rajshahi district Hossain, Md. Sazzad Education is a method of assisting learning or the attainment of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits. So, the equal opportunity of education is an important factor affecting the overall development of a country. The problems and oppo1tunities of education in a country like Bangladesh can be understood in the context of identical development, people having the educational oppo1tunities and the state of education providing, thereby from an understanding of the advancement of education in the country. The apposite development of Bangladesh may be hampered if the educational status of the polder people remains as low as it is today. Though constitution of Bangladesh has given equal civil rights to every citizen of this country but the polders people in Bangladesh feel disadvantaged in every sphere of their lives. Right from their bi1th, due to be the inhabitants of remote areas, they face discriminations in both their social and public lives. In this ground, the present research has explored the problems and opportunities of education for the people living in the polder areas of Rajshahi district in Bangladesh. Both as an explorative as well as descriptive in nature, this study has been conducted to explore the problems and opportunities of education for the polders people living in the selected polders of Rajshahi district. The population of this study conducted on 342 respondents, consisting of the students living in the study area who are enrolled in the 8 ( eight) schools located in the 5 (five) polders, parents of the students, teachers those who are serving in the selected schools and local leaders in those polder area. Moreover, three case studies of students and two focus group discussions have been carried out with seven to thi1teen persons in each group. According to the educational situation of the polder areas, present study has focused on these priority themes( 1 )Problems of education in the polder areas(2) The opportunities of education for the polder people in Rajshahi District and (3) Relationship between the socio-economic situation and the polder education of the study area. This Thesis is Submitted to the Institute of Education and Research (IER) , University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh for The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Environmental Impacts on Knee Osteoarthritis and It’s Sustainable Management using Therapeutic Agents

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Environmental Impacts on Knee Osteoarthritis and It’s Sustainable Management using Therapeutic Agents Hossain, Md. Shahadat Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is the most common form of joint disease. It is one of the major causes of impaired function that reduces quality of life (QOL) worldwide. To evaluate the association between Environmental Impacts (weather, occupation, posture, age, sex, obesity, exercise, sports, diet, demographic, joint injury, hormone, bone density etc.) and knee pain among individuals with osteoarthritis (OA) (n=299). This prospective study evaluated men and women, aged 40 to 80yr, participating in a community-based, osteoarthritis exercise study (June 2012–June 2016). Weekly selfreported pain scores were collected using a visual analogue scale. Statistical tests, including regression and correlation analyses, were conducted. P values<0.001 were considered significant. To compare the effectiveness of sustainable management using different therapeutic agents (swimming exercise, quadriceps stretching exercise, mobilization exercise, deep transverse friction massage with hot pack). The mean temperature was 23°C with a low of 4°C and a high of 40°C. Most associations explored produced non-significant findings. However, among women with knee OA, higher pain was significantly associated with days of rising barometric pressure (P<0.001). While some associations were suggestive of a relationship, largely these findings indicate that weather is quite modestly, if at all, associated with pain from OA. Some occupational activities increase the risk of knee OA, although the influences of publication bias and heterogeneity are important limitations of this study. Both aerobic walking and home based quadriceps strengthening exercise reduce pain and disability from knee osteoarthritis but no difference between them was found on indirect comparison. Obesity was also significantly associated with knee OA There was no statistically significant interaction effect between BMI and gender, age or any of the other confounding variables. A moderate correlation was found between joint displacement detection threshold and age (r = 0.557 and r = 0.625 for the right knee and the left knee, respectively). The threshold was substantially and significantly different between the OA patients and the elderly controls.------ This Thesis is Submitted to the Institute of Education and Research (IER) , University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh for The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Nature of Physics Teaching at Secondary Level in Bangladesh

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Nature of Physics Teaching at Secondary Level in Bangladesh Haque, Md. Aminul This study investigates and describes the nature of secondary physics teaching and learning in Bangladesh. Here the body of literature on nature of physics teaching has been studied, and it has been discussed how classroom situations in secondary physics classes can be turned into a friendly environment for learning physics. The situations under discussion have been proposed by secondary teachers, during in-service teachers training, as situations from day to day physics teaching could highlight the nature of physics teaching. Secondary schools of all Upazila of Rajshahi district have been purposively selected for the study. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used for gathering research data. Primary and secondary sources have been used for the study. Quantitative data were obtained from the surveys of 81secondary schools, 81 Head teachers, 93 physics teachers and 500 students of class IX-X from secondary schools of Rajshahi District in Bangladesh. Qualitative data, on the other hand, were gathered from the analysis of questionnaire and interviews from Head teachers, physics teachers and students of class IX-X from Rajshahi District in Bangladesh. Quantitative data were coded and analyzed using the SPSS 16.0 statistical package to produce descriptive statistics. Qualitative data also were transcribed and categorized into emerging themes. Some selected variables and their relationship with 2test are shown in the table for head teachers, physics teachers and students. This study investigated 81 schools and evaluated the statement on the basis of using a five points rating scale indicating 1= Poor, 2= Weak, 3= Fair, 4= Good, 5= Very good. The percentages of the occurrences of these points are tabulated and explained. The tabular form of categorical data is graphically represented by correspondence analysis. Graphical display permits more rapid interpretation and understanding of the data. The rows and columns of a table interpreted the similarities and differences between rows, the similarities and differences between columns and the association between rows and columns. Correspondence analysis uses χ2/n, which is termed as inertia or total inertia, rather than χ2 value of contingency table. This graph can be used to investigate the graphical relationship among different categories. This Thesis is Submitted to the Institute of Education and Research (IER) , University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh for The Degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil)