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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

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

Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields...

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BCS Education Cadre Officials’ ‘No Promotion, No Work’ Movement

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Our Children are Under House Arrest

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Why has the Coaching Revolution Occurred in the Country?

Coaching centres have sprung up from the remotest parts of the country to the capital city, with their presence ranging from important spots to...

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Amader Pathshala Treads a Tough Road to Teach Poor Children

SADAT SAYEM writes on Amader Pathshala Sonia Akhter, a Class III student at Amader Pathshala, was colouring a drawing of rural vista in the cultural programme of the school on one Saturday. The daughter of a garment worker, Sonia often helps her mother in the household chores but she is regular in attending her classes from Uttar Kalshi in the Dhaka...

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Rickshaw puller Joynal Teaches Us a Lot

On Saturday the last page of Prothom Alo has brought out a feature on how a rickshaw puller runs a hospital and school. It...

Guideline for Constructing Effective Test Items

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Problems and Prospects of EFA in Bangladesh

FATIMA KHAN BASU and ASAD-UZ-ZAMAN ASAD wrote about EFA in Bangladesh 1. Background 1.1. History of EFA: Education for All (EFA) is an international commitment that...

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Decision to Conduct Online Examinations in Public Universities Calls for Appreciation

All forms of educational institutions have seen closure due to the corona pandemic for about fifteen months. At the primary and secondary level, the...

The Role of Grammar in Communicative Language Teaching

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Nationalisation of Education: BNP’s Stance and Promise  

A grand rally was held on 07 October 2025 at Shurawardy Uddayan on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, where teachers gathered with the...

Participatory Rural Appraisal for Research

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Australian Guide to Legal Citation Style [Part-2]

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Dropout in the Same Circle for Five Years Together

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Using Performance Skills in the Classroom

In order to continue raising academic standards, we need to constantly examine and explore our methods of teaching. We need to observe other teachers’...

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Subject-based Teacher in Secondary Schools

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Secondary School Teachers Conduct Classes in Colleges

With a view to addressing the increasing crisis of admission into the intermediate level, the government turned ten government schools into colleges and this process was started in 2007 as a huge number of students passed the SSC examination that year. Firstly, Dhanmondi Government High School, Motijheel Government Boys’ High School and Sher-e-Banglanagar Boys’ High School introduced intermediate class....

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

Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields without giving a second thought to whether those fields really need the changes the government is planning, ignoring the long-standing, must-be-solved problems of those areas. That is why the exceptional thoughts sometimes appear as absurd. Some...

HSC Result and Our Politics

The results of the Higher Secondary Examination or HSC result help students determine the future course of study and aim of life. Hence, it attaches much importance. This year 74.30 per cent of students passed the HSC examinations against 78.67 per cent of the previous year. Besides the pass rate, the results also showed a decline in the number...

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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...

Quality Assurance at the Affiliated Institutions of Higher Education of the National University of Bangladesh

Abstract: Research for this paper, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, has been carried out on quality assurance by  questionnaire, interview and observation ...

How Private Universities Contribute to Tertiary Education

The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of tertiary education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. over the years these institutions...

The Initiative to Assess Higher Education of Bangladesh

With a view to making university education in Bangladesh a ‘brand’ for others to follow, the Education Quality Assurance Foundation (EQAF) was founded by...

World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

Mahbub Alam Prodip writes about Bangladeshi University Ranking The ‘Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’, ‘Times Higher Education (THE)’, ‘The Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)’ and ‘The...

Honours and Masters in Non-Government Colleges

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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...