Thesis 2011: Recent submissions

  • Knowledge, Belief, Reality, Truth and Cloud Atlas 
    Sultana, Nigar (East West University, 12/24/2010)
    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is a complex novel narrating six different stories of six different characters living in different times in different parts of the globe. What makes the novel even more dazzlingly interesting ...
  • The Shadow Lines as a Political Novel 
    Alam, Nasih Ul Wadud (East West University, 11/21/2012)
    Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, published in 1988, is a political novel that focuses mostly on nationalism, the meaninglessness of partition and the 1964 communal riots which occurred in Calcutta, Dhaka and Khulna. This ...
  • Possession: A Romance as a Postmodern Novel 
    Akter, Sabrina (East West University, 12/12/2011)
    Possession: A Romance (1990), by A.S.Byatt, is indeed a romance, but also a mystery, a satire, a detective story and a fairy tale, a novel about English Departments and both a historical and contemporary work of fiction. ...
  • English Medium Schools: Do they lack native culture 
    Zaman, Shammi (East West University, 4/17/2011)
    In this research the researcher is trying to show how the English Medium Schools impede the development of the country. The research sites were located at ten English Medium Schools in Dhaka city. The research objectives ...
  • A Translation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye 
    Matin, Walima (East West University, 10/30/2011)
    “A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment (Morrison,1970,1994:162) This extract has been taken from Toni ...
  • English in Bangladesh as a Corporate Language: Problems and Solutions 
    Hasan, Mohammad Mahmudul (East West University, 8/23/2011)
    In Bangladesh a number of foreign languages like Arabic, French, Japanese, Persian, etc. are used for various purposes. Besides, for a number of reasons only one foreign language i.e., English is taught as a compulsory ...
  • Translation of three different texts types from English to Bengali 
    Rahman, Muhammad Shafiqur (East West University, 9/15/2011)
    A translator attempting translations from one language to another is confronted with many linguistic and cultural problems, which he or she needs to tackle effectively. Both linguistic and cultural factors can cause problems ...
  • Common People in the Poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth in the Romantic Period 
    Choudhury, Tahmina Akter (East West University, 8/7/2011)
    Inclusion of the common people through introducing simple language that represents the ordinary life style of the marginalized, ignored as well as deprived section of the society in the late 18th century and early 19th ...
  • Heart of Darkness and its Critics: Controversies and Assessments 
    Habib, Sadia (East West University, 12/12/2011)
    Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a magnum opus of twentieth century literary studies. No longer confined to the category of modern literature the novel has become a source of versatile criticism. After Achebe’s indictment ...
  • A Study on Teacher’s Competency in Context of Facilitating Teaching Learning Progress at Secondary Level in Bangladesh 
    Khan, Touhida Mehjabin (East West University, 12/11/2011)
    Bangladesh, a unitary and sovereign People’s Republic achieved dependence on 26th march, 1971 and came into existence after 9 months liberation war-proved devastating (Feroza, 2007). With a density of 977 persons per sq ...
  • Stereotyping of women as a domestic being in Bangladeshi television commercials: A critical study of discourse 
    Haq, Abu Reza Nurul (East West University, 8/2/2011)
    Traditionally it is believed that men and women have different sets of gender roles (Giddens, 2006; Schaefer, 2010; Miaji 2010; Spencer, 1997; Rao, 2007). Parsons and Bales, two Functionalist theorists, say (in Schaefer, ...
  • CLT in Theory and Practice 
    Peyar, Ahmed (East West University, 8/2/2011)
    English is taught as a compulsory subject in our country from class I to XII but after twelve years of learning, English remains a fearful subject among the students. Still most of the students fail in English in SSC and ...
  • Methodological Differences of English Language Learning in Class 1 of English Medium and Bangla Medium School 
    Ferdousi, Farhana (East West University, 8/2/2011)
    The research is intended for teachers and researchers interested in English language teaching and learning. It might give them an overview with data to understand the situation of teaching practice and the methodology used ...
  • Representation of the Subaltern in Elias’s Novels 
    Akter, Sultana Nazia (East West University, 6/1/2011)
    This study engages with the idea of the representation of the subaltern in Akhtaruzzaman Elias’s two novels, Chilekothar Sepai and Khoabnama. The idea of the subaltern is a complex one and both Gramsci and Gayatri ...
  • Life Into Arts: R. K. Narayan 
    Islam, Nehrin (East West University, 4/1/2011)
    This study attempts to prove that an artist may take material for his art from his own life and experience. Narayan certainly has taken material for his novels from his own experience. His first three novels are ...
  • Cultural Imperialism in English in English Medium Schools 
    Akter, Tahmina (East West University, 6/1/2011)
    English Medium Schools (henceforth EMSs) do not help to practice Bangladeshi culture when they teach English language and therefore seem to be culturally imperialistic (Haque, 2009). English language is replacing or ...
  • Teachers’ attitudes towards student mistakes in their spoken English 
    Ferdus, Masnadul (East West University, 4/1/2011)
    There is no way students can become fluent faster unless they are exposed to the language they are to learn. This paper aims to provide useful information that students and teachers will be looking for to improve the spoken ...
  • The Ethnic Ghosts and “Coming of Age” of a Genre 
    Chowdhury, Mehetaz (East West University, 4/1/2011)
    The lives of immigrants are far from easy, even within a pluralistic society that highlights democracy, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. Individuals from ethnic minorities groups get segregated because of their language, ...
  • Translation of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
    Rashid, Punya Homaira (East West University, 1/3/2011)
    This dissertation offers a Bangla translation of the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by the American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story was originally published in 1892 and became a best-seller later. The story ...
  • Problems of CLT in Secondary Level: Urban Context 
    Haque, Md. Mozammel (East West University, 5/1/2011)
    National Curriculum Text Book (in Hamid and Baldauf, 2008) explains that students learn English following the communicative methodology. It is believed that Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) helps to develop learners’ ...

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