About

TESOL Bangladesh Journal (TBJ) is a flagship journal of TESOL Society of Bangladesh founded in 2014 and publishes two issues (July and December) in a year. TESOL Society of Bangladesh is an equal opportunity platform for the practitioners of English Language in Bangladesh. It is a community of English language teachers trying to bring the Bangladeshi ELT professionals and the prospective practitioners of ELT and applied linguists under one roof by establishing a network that encourages diversity and respectful professional collaborations among educators by organizing programs with national and international collaboration. As part of its commitment to promote local innovations and practices and flourish research for sustainable development, the association publishes a scholarly journal that will bring together English language professionals from around the world to share, learn, and further English language teaching and research.

TESOL Bangladesh Journal (TBJ) is a peer-reviewed, electronic and open access journal based on current theory, research and practices in the field of TESOL. TBJ is a double-blind peer review journal dedicated to enhancing and disseminating scholarly work from local, regional and international researchers and practitioners in second and foreign language contexts to engage in the ways that research and theorizing can inform and shape English language teaching and learning perspectives and practices. The Editor(s) of TBJ is supported by a nationally and internationally renowned Advisory Board which assists the Editor(s) in the development of the Journal, and by an Editorial Panel consisting of national and international scholars in the field of TESOL, ELT and Applied Linguistics.

TBJ promotes TESOL research that is locally grounded, however, regionally and internationally relevant. The journal welcomes submission that is relevant to TESOL in local context as well broad regional and international topics representing a variety of cross-disciplinary interests relevant to TESOL, Applied Linguistics and Language Education:

Editors

Dr. Raqib Chowdhury, Monash University, Australia

Dr. Sayeedur Rahman, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Managing Editor

Dr. Mian Md. Naushaad Kabir

Associate Professor of English Language

Institute of Modern Langauges

University of Dhaka

Review Editor

M Hamidul Haque

Senior Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of English

American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)

Assistant Editors

Dr. Taslima Irin Ivy	Manchester Institute of Education (MIE), University of Manchester, UK
Farzana Rahman Khan	Brac Institute of Languages, Brac University
Hasna Khanom	Brac Institute of Languages, Brac University

Editorial Board

Dr. Obaid Hamid	Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Shaila Sultana	Professor, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka
Dr. Asifa Sultana	Associate Professor, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University
Dr. Mohammad Ali Azgor Talukder	Associate Professor & Head, Department of English, BUFT
Dr. Md Al Amin	Assistant Professor, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University
Dr. Sabreena Ahmed	Associate Professor, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University
Dr. Tasnima Aktar	Associate Professor, Department of English, Comilla University
Dr Muhammed Shahriar Haque	Professor, Department of English, East West University
Dr. Tazin Aziz Chaudhury	Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka
Dr. Syeda Farzana Sultana	Assistant Professor, Department of English and Humanities, ULAB
Dr. Jahurul Islam	Lecturer in Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Dr. Sanjoy Banerjee	Language Instructor, York University, Toronto
Dr. Md. Golam Jamil	University of Bristol, UK
Dr. Elizabeth Erling	Professor of English Language Teaching and Research Methodology, University of Graz, Austria
Dr. Trang Nguyen	School of Education, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Dr. Hoa Nguyen	Senior Lecturer in Teacher Professional Learning, School of Education, University of New South Wales, Australia
Lisa Gilanyi	Research Assistant for Professor Terry Cumming, School of Education, UNSW, Research Assistant for Associate Professor Scott Eacott, School of Education, UNSW
Dr. Prithvi Narayan Shrestha	Senior Lecturer in English Language, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics Open University, UK
Dr. Harsha Dulari Wijesekera	Senior Lecturer. Post Graduate Institute of English of Sri Lanka
Dr Anwar Ahmed	Assistant Professor, York University
Dr. Manzoorul Abedin	Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Advisory Board

Dr. Syed Manzoorul Islam	Professor, Department of English & Humanities, ULAB
Professor Fakrul Alam	UGC Professor, Bangladesh
A.M.M. Hamidur Rahman	Professor of English Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Daffodil International University, Dhaka
Professor Dr. Md. Shahidullah	Professor and Chairperson, Department of English Green University of Bangladesh
Professor Phan Le Ha	Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
Professor Bob Lingard	Emeritus Professor, The University of Queensland
Professor Fazal Rizvi	Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
Professor Lawrence J. Zhang,	Associate Dean, International Partnerships, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Prof. Dr Fauzia Shamim	Professor and Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan

Technical Team

Sharmin Sultana Rima

Lecturer in English, State University of Bangladesh

Akibur Rahman Khan

Lecturer in English

American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)

Antara Ibnat Audhaya

Graduate Student (BA in ESOL)

Institute of Modern Languages (IML)