http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/67 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:58:10 GMT 2026-04-15T00:58:10Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/182 An Evaluation of English Language Teaching at the Beginner's Level in Bangladesh from the Psycholinguistic Point of View Majid, Iffat A.N. This paper looks at the teaching methods currently practiced in Bangladesh in both Bengali-medium and English-medium primary schools in order to ascertain how conducive it is for second language learning in the light of theories of second language acquisition. Opinions of parents/guardians and primary school teachers have been sought in this regard about the necessity and quality of teaching at this level. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/182 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/181 The Bee Poems: Plath’s Desire to Recover a Self Islam, Atiqul; Mamun, Md. Muntasir Plath wrote five Bee poems which were titled “Bees” and conceived of as a sequence in October 1962. They are unified by their subject matter, bees and beekeeping, and by their five line stanza pattern, though each poem works in its own unique variation of the general theme and form. They reveal a concern with self-assessment and redefinition, both personally and poetically and proceed by scrutinizing relationship between the speaker and her world. The sequence moves from community to solitude as the speaker settles her relations with others and with her own former selves. This research article aims to read the Bee poems as a parable of female self-assertion or narrative rite of rebirth, affirming the integrity of the creative self, and thus furnishing an alternative, more hopeful ending for Plath’s career. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/181 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/180 Baudelaire’s “Tableaux Parisiens”: Metropolis Multitude, and Modernity Mohamad Noman, Abu Syeed The section titled ‘Tableaux Parisiens,’ in the second edition of Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil highlights a remarkable transition from the poet’s initial romantic preoccupation to an outstandingly different kind of poetry which shocked the contemporary readers and led the later critics and poets alike to regard him as the first modern poet. Modern poetry, as this paper aims to show, has been the product of the lone poet’s painful effort to adapt himself to the unpredictable city and his subsequent failure, alienation and ennui. This failure is the fate of everyman, and the failed self, the fallen self With all its secrets, finds in the city a market and incarnates at times as a prostitute looking for customers to sell herself and at other times as a poet in search of a publisher to sell himself. Baudelaire, unlike his predecessors, does not shun this lost tribe of people from his poetry but makes them and their city the very subject therein. Thus, a study of the city, which supplied the poet the inspiration and the materials for his work, would be a key to Baudelaire’s modernity. With this perception this paper seeks to make a critical reading of ‘Tableaux Parisiens’ and show that Baudelaire’s modernity was born in the metropolis with his discovery of isolation in the multitude. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/180 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/179 Economic Emancipation of The SAARC Countries: Lessons from ASEAN Rabbani Mondol, A.K.M. Golam; Azad, Md. Rafique The paper attempts to highlight the ways and the different strategies in which the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries can attain economic emancipation by taking lessons from ASEAN (Association of South Asian Nations), a regional body of some East Asian countries. ASEAN came out to be a very successful forum, which was formed to accelerate the economic growth and social development to raise the living standards of their people. Members of the ASEAN, to be noted here, were economically lagging behind the countries of this sub-continent even in mid- sixties. By moving speedily and steadily with integrated endeavourer, ASEAN countries became the fastest growing economic region of the world. For example, having started roughly on similar per capita income, Singapore, after three decades, enjoys about eighty five times higher than Bangladeshi per capita income. The paper will, then, delve into ASEAN’s economic arena and find out how they succeeded. Dwelling briefly on the genesis of SAARC, this paper will ascertain the causes of failures of this body and explore the ways and means it can replicate ASEAN’s successes in its quest for economic emancipation so as to emerget as an Asian economic powerhouse. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/179 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z