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Using balanced skills for authentic and fruitful language teaching

In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to time constraints or curriculum demands, some skills receive more attention than others. In real life, we never use language skills in isolation. When we communicate, we listen and respond; when we read, we interpret information and often discuss or write about it. That is why balanced lessons help students use language more authentically and functionally. In addition, working with all four skills helps:  (i) build students’ confidence, (ii) support different learning styles, (iii) increase classroom participation, (iv)...

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Using balanced skills for authentic and fruitful language teaching

In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...

Rechecking SSC exam scripts reveals serious scams in the evaluation system

When 56,000 scripts of a public examination show changed marks and grades, it undeniably reveals serious scams in our evaluation system. Whatever we do...

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...

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Educational Crisis in Bangladesh

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Education Policy must Give Importance to These Points

The present government is going to formulate a standard education policy as they said. Education is actually in shamble whatever complacency we show. You...

Primary Education

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 physical and mental pains. It has been learned that the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has directed the NCTB to revise the assessment system and distribution of marks. Do they really have the right to...

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Making Language Teaching More Communicative

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All Tiers of Education are Shrouded in Irregularities

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With the ever-increasing pressure to raise performance standards in school, Project-based Learning helps to engage students’ intrinsic motivation to learn and, in turn, increase...

GRR Model Builds a Bridge to Reach Students to Their Destination

The way teachers teach and pupils learn has been revolutionised by the Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) model. The GRR model is built on...

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...

Grammar or fluency in English: Which one is more important?

Whenever we see English questions, whether in public examinations, BCS, or any recruitment test, let alone the internal examinations of educational institutions, we can...

School Improvement in Bangladesh Context: Learning from BRAC Primary Schools – 1

Introduction Primary education in Bangladesh has been expanded in recent years, but the quality did not improve with quantity (Nath, 2002). To increase access to...

The Role of Technical and Vocational Education in the National Development of Bangladesh

Abstract Education is a  basic human right and considered by many as a  key tool  for  national development. However, this tenet has been challenged by...

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It is true that the education sector has received significant importance from the government under the able guidance of Nurul Islam Nahid, the minister for education. Still many flows have been discerned in this sector which tends to threaten the smooth running of this field. Several alarming figures in the secondary level education of the country appeared in different...

How Secondary English Teachers Can be Developed into Trainers

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Some Insides of This Year’s HSC Result

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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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The existence of private universities in Bangladesh is now a visual reality. Our memory dates back to 1992, when our country saw eleven public...

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Using balanced skills for authentic and fruitful language teaching

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Using balanced skills for authentic and fruitful language teaching

In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to time constraints or curriculum demands, some skills receive more attention than others. In real life, we...