TY - CHAP
T1 - Future directions for research-based academic English education at EFL universities
T2 - an evaluation of the context
AU - Jamil, Md Golam
AU - Rahman, Kazi Mafizur
PY - 2020/12/18
Y1 - 2020/12/18
N2 - Research-based learning is an intellectually stimulating academic approach, which has gained ground in contemporary higher education curricula. Our article addresses this field and explores contextual viability of implementing research-based Academic English (AE) programmes. Bangladesh, an English as a foreign language (EFL) environment, is the research context; and Research Informed Teaching (RIT), an educational approach of teaching–research integration, is the conceptual base of our study. We collected data from four universities using a learning experience questionnaire completed by students and semi-structured interviews with EFL lecturers. Our critical approach to investigating the context identified three powerful factors, namely learning culture, graduate employability, and academic support provision linked to research-based AE education at Bangladeshi universities. The key lesson we have learned is that the localisation of global evidence through an evaluation of the target context is vital in implementing any research-based language education model. Our findings are Bangladesh higher education specific, but the approach of investigation and the directions are transferrable to other educational contexts.
AB - Research-based learning is an intellectually stimulating academic approach, which has gained ground in contemporary higher education curricula. Our article addresses this field and explores contextual viability of implementing research-based Academic English (AE) programmes. Bangladesh, an English as a foreign language (EFL) environment, is the research context; and Research Informed Teaching (RIT), an educational approach of teaching–research integration, is the conceptual base of our study. We collected data from four universities using a learning experience questionnaire completed by students and semi-structured interviews with EFL lecturers. Our critical approach to investigating the context identified three powerful factors, namely learning culture, graduate employability, and academic support provision linked to research-based AE education at Bangladeshi universities. The key lesson we have learned is that the localisation of global evidence through an evaluation of the target context is vital in implementing any research-based language education model. Our findings are Bangladesh higher education specific, but the approach of investigation and the directions are transferrable to other educational contexts.
U2 - 10.4324/9780429356803
DO - 10.4324/9780429356803
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780367405755
T3 - Routledge International Handbooks of Education
SP - 96
EP - 111
BT - The Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in Bangladesh
A2 - Sultana, Shaila
A2 - Roshid, M. Moninoor
A2 - Haider, Md. Zulfeqar
A2 - Kabir, Mian Md. Naushaad
A2 - Khan, Mahmud Hasan
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -