Browsing by Author "Al Amin, MD"

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Bangladeshi tertiary level students’ perceptions on online synchronous and asynchronous learning as a humanistic learning
(BRAC University, 2023-01) Habiba, Umme; Al Amin, MD
"Since the time of Covid-19, online classes have got wider recognition. Even in today when the world is healing, and everything is happening on-site, online classes did not lose its existence. However, in today’s post COVID world, the students are facing stress, frustration, and many other mental and physical challenges. So, their learning environment should be such which is considerable to their physical and mental states. In such case, humanistic education might be a suitable teaching approach as it speaks for empathy in education along with many other skills for the development of the learners. Nevertheless, so far, very limited research study has concentrated on the humanistic education in online classes where humanistic learning approach needs more recognition in today’s post COVID era for enabling students to learn along with coping up with their personal hardships. That is why this research focuses on how much humanistic role the teachers play in the online synchronous and asynchronous classes, and also some barriers of humanistic education in such classroom settings from the perspective of Bangladeshi students. This study has taken a qualitative research approach where one by one interview has been selected as the data collection tool. Fifteen students from different universities of Bangladesh took part in this research study. From the interviews with the participants, it has been found that the students of Bangladesh are well acquainted with various online synchronous and asynchronous classes where they think that their teachers play multifarious humanistic roles by showing empathy to the students, inspiring creative thinking, allowing learning at own pace, and promoting learner autonomy in the classrooms. However, some barriers of humanistic education in online classes have been spotted as well like difficulty in emphasizing empathy and authority in the classrooms due to communication gap in online asynchronous classes, and also the inability of the teachers to allow learning at own pace to the learners for being liable to a fixed schedule. This study also recommends some solutions for overcoming the apparent challenges founded in this study. Overall, this research study acknowledges the concept of humanistic education in online classes, and thus opens up scopes for further scholarly work in the related field."
Difficulties in learning english faced by secondary level students in Bangla medium schools in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2019-04) Mandal, Pragya Paramita; Al Amin, MD
Learning English as a second language is indispensable in education system of Bangladesh. For Bangladeshi learners gaining proficiency is essential for higher studies in Bangladesh and abroad, in job sectors, and communicating with foreign agencies or international organizations. To develop English language proficiency secondary level education is considered vital in Bangladesh. However, published research and media reports often criticize the poor condition of Bangladeshi secondary students’ English attainment. Secondary level students of Bangla medium schools do not have proficiency in English up to desired level even after passing several high stake national examinations. Students struggle a lot and face various kinds of difficulties in English classes. This research explored some of the reasons behind this poor attainment. Results shows that there are numerous factors responsible for this low attainment and for some of them students are responsible, some of the factors related to poor teaching conditions and some of the causes related to various contextual factors. In conclusion, this study attempts to depict the real scenario of English classes in Bangla medium schools. At the end of the research some suggestions are made regarding how English classes at the secondary level can be made more interesting so that students can develop their language skills.