Abstract:
This project paper aims at knowing the present scenario of Bangladeshi SchoolEnglish Language
Teaching System and understand the English Language classroom as well as to observe teachers
and student’s role there and how they responses for learning it as a second language.The main
purpose of the project paper is to overlook English language teaching system at the Secondary
Level Education in Bangladeshischools. This paper is an attempt to know which methods and
materials are being applied in Bangladeshi classrooms in case of teaching English language at
the secondary level.Most of theschool student of Bangladesh are weak in English language due
to lack of skilled and trainedteachers who are familiar to the modern methods and approaches of
teaching and lack ofmaterials for teaching in the classroom. This project paper aims to find the
challenges of teaching English language in the context of Bangladesh. This study also
investigated the factors affecting student’s performance in learning English language in
secondary level education. Data were collected using interviews, classroom observation and
questionnaire.The paper shows some strength and weaknesses of the classroom activities that
may be helpful to develop the English language teaching system in Bangladesh.
Description:
Bangladesh is basically a monolingual country. However itsaneducation policy and curriculum
mandate English as a compulsory second language because of its global nature, Ministry of
Education, Bangladesh (MoE), (2010). Thus for students who study at least to graduation level,
English is taught as an essential subject for more than fourteen years of their educational life. For
nearly two decades, the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach has been used to
teach and learn English in Bangladesh. This investigation is drawn from my personal experience
in navigating thecomplexities of international study as well as from the theoreticalconcepts
encountered instudying global citizenship during the course of the project.In our country, there is
no doubt that we still have not established a standard of education in schools and colleges. There
are too many problems in our country that have to beeradicated to embrace a comprehensive
education systemthrough which we can expect ourselves to be a richer nation. We must not
forget that students today will become the key members of our country who would be
responsible for the overall development of our country. The main objectives of teaching English
in Bangladesh are to enable students to understand simple commands, instructions and requests
in English and also carry them out. The project have been done as a part of the course titled Eng-
334 under the supervisor. For this purpose the intern were asked to visit a Bangla/English
medium school and to observe and take 3 English language learning classes there.
As per of the direction, A reputed school and college has been selected. In English language
classes, teachers teaching strategies, lesson structure, classroom management, teacher and
student use of Language, Teacher use ofstudy material, study feedback system have been
observed there.