Language and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh

Policies, Practices, and Perceptions
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-45982-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Language Education

This book examines relationships between language and sustainable development in the context of Bangladesh. Following inclusive and multidisciplinary perspectives, these relationships are explored in mainstream education, teacher education, religious education and indigenous, ethnic minority and refugee settings. The contexts of development are also diverse which include the public sector, international non-government organisations, domestic work, tourism, and the environment.

The book records voices of people from various linguistic, social, cultural, and demographic backgrounds, in urban, rural, and peripheral settings. It makes the language question visible in the manifold contexts of development where it has generally remained invisible. Giving visibility to language by referring to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the chapters embrace language and development in pluralistic ways and underscore their complex but undeniable relationships. The authors come from diverse backgrounds and bring plurality of genres, methods, insights, and implications.

The volume is intended for students, academics, researchers, policy personnel, language practitioners, and other readers whose works and interests straddle language, development, and SDGs. It will benefit them by explicating language-sustainable development relationships in theoretical as well as practical ways, suggesting directives for policies and practices for linguistic and social justice, and equity and inclusion.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamid, M Obaidul

Sultana, Shaila

Roshid, Mohammod Moninoor

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to Language and Sustainable Development

M. Obaidul Hamid, Shaila Sultana, and Mohammod Moninoor Roshid

Part 1: English Language, Teacher Education and Prospects of Development

1. English Language Teacher Education in Bangladesh: Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Development

Rubina Khan

2. Transformative Multiliteracies Pedagogy and Sustainable Development: Investigating Government Primary Schools at Chattagram Hill Tracts

Tazin Ahmed, Rajia Sultana, Iram Mehrin, and Shaila Sultana

3. Quality in English Language Teaching in an Evolving World: An Examination of the Implications of SDG4 for Teacher Development in Bangladesh

Md Al Amin, and Janinka Greenwood

 

Part 2: Languages, Employability, Labour Market Experience, and Environment

4. Employability and Development Potential of Bangla and English in the Public Sector Job Market in Bangladesh

Bijoy Lal Basu, Mohammad Mahmudul Haque, and M. Obaidul Hamid

5. Language Skills, Employability and Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Indigenous Domestic Workers in Bangladesh

Abdullah Al-Mamun and Shaila Sultana

6. Language Proficiency in Organizational Dynamics in International Development Partner Organizations and Sustainable Development Goals

Mohammod Moninoor Roshid, and Jubida Aziz

7. Sustainability of Language, Tourism, and the Environment in Bangladesh

Md Rabiul Alam, Md Wasiul Islam, and M. Obaidul Hamid

Part 3: Language, Marginality, and Inclusion in Relation to Development

 

8. Globalisation, English for All, and Sustainable Development: Policy Discourses and Schooling Reality in Bangladesh

M. Maksud Ali, and M. Obaidul Hamid

9. Sociolinguistic Cohesion for Sustainable Development: Views from a Rural Bangladeshi Madrasa

Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury

10. Social Inclusion, Language Education, and SDGs: Perspectives of the Rohingya Community in Bangladesh

Shakila Nur

11. Mother Tongue-Based Education in Two Linguistically Marginalised Communities of Bengal

Asifa Sultana, and Dripta Piplai (Mondal)

Epilogue: ‘Sustainability’, ‘Development’ and ‘Language’ in Bangladesh

Hywel Coleman

Über Autor(innen)

M. Obaidul Hamid is Associate Professor of TESOL Education at the University of Queensland in Australia. He teaches and researches TESOL policy and practice in developing societies. He is a co-editor of Language planning for medium of instruction in Asia (Routledge, 2014).

Shaila Sultana is Professor and Director of BRAC Institute of Languages at BRAC University, Bangladesh. Her research interests include sociolinguistics and language education with reference to translingual practices and language, gender, indigeneity and ethnicity, and identity. She is lead editor of Routledge handbook of English language education in Bangladesh (2021).

Mohammod Moninoor Roshid is Professor of TESOL education at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research interests include Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF), graduate employability, and higher education. He is a co-editor of the Routledge handbook of English language education in Bangladesh (2021).