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Storytelling: The most powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar

Is storytelling a powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar? Teaching English using isolated grammar has become an established practice in our English teaching and learning situation, so deeply rooted that no training, sermon, advice, or seminar can deter teachers and instructors from doing it. You can see that every day, new books appear on the market with explanations of complex grammatical rules, making English learning more difficult, and this stems from the practices of public examination questions. You see, there are still many questions, and in all competitive and job examinations, even complex grammatical rules reign supreme. Nobody bothers to...

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Storytelling: The most powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar

Is storytelling a powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar? Teaching English using isolated grammar has become an established practice in our English teaching...

SSC results reveal an unexpected reality serving as a wake-up call

The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were published three weeks after the government's initial announcement that they would be...

What is the rationale behind establishing 600 Model Schools and Colleges?

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New Ways of Assessment: Good or Bad for Twenty Million Little Children!

Continuous syllabus and assessment changes, as well as experiments on young children, make them guinea pigs. The authorities continue doing so, ignoring the children’s...

An Analysis of Primary Education : Some Initiatives to Make Curriculum Success

Bangladesh possesses importance in many aspects, particularly in the area of primary education, that convey the strength to the way forward. Having the development...

What Students are Learning? Stop Staging the Theatre of Education

The COVID situation and the theatre of introducing a so-called 'competency-based' curriculum pushed the teaching and learning situation to the lowest rung. In the...

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Observance of National Primary Education Week 2014 and Some Relevant Issues

National Primary Education Week 2014 was observed in the country which started from March 09 and it was inaugurated by Prime Minister at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. She made several important announcements in her inaugural speech. One was the upgrading of the status of government primary head teachers from grade III to grade II which calls for appreciation from all...

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The One Minute Manager in Non-formal Education Sector

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Philosophical View on Teachers and Teachers in Real Work Place: A critical Writing in Context of Bangladeshi Primary Education – 1

Introduction Teaching is one of the fundamental elements in the process of formal education. Effective teaching is often a requirement of the achievement of the...

Bangladeshi People’s English Skills in the Global Standard

Education First, a Switzerland based organization, has been working in the field of language and culture for more than five decades. It runs its...

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Child Protection Issues in Our Textbooks

The World Vision, a NGO working in Bangladesh since 1971 focusing on child care, concern and protection along with its other areas of intervention...

Recruiting Teachers Without Written Test: A Suicidal Decision

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The Importance and Challenges of Audio Materials for Language Education

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The Education Reform: Learning from Vietnam Example

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Factors Should be Considered for Defining Data for Research

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Nationalisation of Education: BNP’s Stance and Promise  

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Variable and Its Measurement

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Ranking Secondary Schools

Ranking secondary schools has been done for the first time in Bangladesh by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education at the behest of the Ministry of Education. The Planning Wing of DSHE has done this commendable job. Hats off the initiators. Schools will receive appreciation and admonition according to the ranking, they said. It has, no doubt, added...

How Secondary English Teachers Can be Developed into Trainers

It is the new initiative of BRAC to develop trained English teachers into trainers. It is based on the theory of “The mother who gives birth to a child knows best the pain of childbirth”. This initiative has sparked hope and enthusiasm among the rural secondary English teachers. To speak the truth, we have discovered the hidden potentialities among...

Several Magics of SSC and Equivalent Examinations Remain Elusive

SSC and equivalent examinations started on 15 February, the written tests were completed on 12 March, and the practical examinations continued till 20 March, beginning from 13 March 2024. Today, 12 May, the results have come out, which means that in less than two months’ time, the results have appeared. Like in previous years, the Prime Minister actually inaugurated the...

What Students are Learning? Stop Staging the Theatre of Education

The COVID situation and the theatre of introducing a so-called 'competency-based' curriculum pushed the teaching and learning situation to the lowest rung. In the true sense of the term, the teaching-learning scenario, receiving and giving education evaporated many years back from our classes, educational institutions, and society, with some exceptions occurring in some institutions like missionary and privately run...

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Government College Teachers Seek Justice

As a regular reader of English newspapers, I have gone through the lengthy thought-provoking and valuable writing of an unknown assistant professor of a...

Ragging Culture in Bangladeshi Universities

The students enrolled in higher educational institutions with the hope of embracing a brighter future and achieving some noble objectives have to face the...

Honours and Masters in Non-Government Colleges

It is frequently heard that honours and masters in non-government colleges will be closed down. Our education minister says it on time and occasion...

All Tiers of Education are Shrouded in Irregularities

A series of incidents have taken place in almost all the higher seats of learning in the country along with surfacing some different problems,...

World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

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Expansion of Private Higher Education

According to UNESCO, the region provides higher education including private higher education to just 3.5 of the college age population, compared with 60 per...

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Storytelling: The most powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar

Is storytelling a powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar? Teaching English using isolated grammar has become an established practice in our English teaching and learning situation, so deeply rooted that no training, sermon, advice, or seminar can deter...