Challenges & Suitability of TESL at the College Level in Bangladeshi Context

Authors

  • Kamrul Hasan Department of English
  • Mohd. Moniruzzaman Akhand Department of English

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v14i1.3090

Keywords:

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Content-based Approach (CBA), Curriculum development

Abstract

This paper presents the result of a study about teaching English to Bangladeshi college students. It analyses the problems faced by Bangladeshi English teachers, including methodological problems and expertise problem. The shifting from grammar based to communicative approach has produced acute problems of expertise in the field, resulting in inefficiency of the classroom instructors and lack of appropriate resources for language teaching. In response to the problems, this paper also discusses CLT methodology and considers the suitability of the Content-Based Approach (CBA) in Bangladeshi context. It then tries to uphold a balanced curricular and pedagogical suggestion for making language teaching more effective, arguing that blending of two approaches, CLT and CBA, can help English language teachers achieve maximum learning among students.

Key Words: Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Content-based Approach (CBA), Curriculum development

DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v14i1.3090

Journal of NELTA Vol.14, No 1&2, 2009 December Page: 45-54

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Author Biographies

Kamrul Hasan, Department of English

Assistant professor in English at the English Language Institute in United International University, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been teaching English, Linguistics at different private universities for more than four years. He has presented papers in several international conference, including paper presented in Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and Bangladesh. He has earned M Phil and M.A degrees in Linguistics and B.A (Hons) in English from University of Delhi, India. His professional interests include ELT, Sociolinguistics, Linguistics and SLA.

Mohd. Moniruzzaman Akhand, Department of English

Associated as lecturer in the department of English of Eastern University, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been teaching English, Applied Linguistics and ELT for more than two years. He has presented papers in three international conferences. He has been graduated from the Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh having major in Applied Linguistics and ELT. His interests cover ELT, SLA and issues of Teacher Development.

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Hasan, K., & Akhand, M. M. (2010). Challenges & Suitability of TESL at the College Level in Bangladeshi Context. Journal of NELTA, 14(1), 45–54. https://doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v14i1.3090

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Vol 14, No 1&2 2009

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