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UNIVERSITY OF CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY CHITTAGONG , Chandgaon Police Station, 1084, Shah Amanat Bridge Connecting Road, Chittagong 4212

MD. SAIFUL ALAM SAIF

Lecturer in English language and literature

I joined the amazing pedagogical team of ELL Department at University of Creative Technology Chittagong (UCTC) in January 2018 and kicked off teaching as a full time lecturer in English language and literature. I have since been engaged in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate English courses, embodying ELL family’s grand aspiration for an ambitious development of the department with a strong heading towards cutting-edge research in the domains of English language and linguistics, and literature.

Qualifications

MA in English Language, The University of Nottingham, UK
Postgraduate Certificate in TESOL, The University of Cambridge, UK

Teaching expertise

• History of the English Language
• Applied Linguistics
• Functional Linguistics
• Romantic literature (Poetry)
• Advanced Writing
• Reading and Writing
• Introduction to literature (poetry)
• Business communication

Research Interests

Religion and literature
L1 interference and L2 learning
Genre and texts analysis
Discourse and grammar
ESL writing
Narrative analysis
Functional linguistics

Research Projects and Awards

• Analysis of Themes of Short Stories in ESL Classroom: A Pedagogical Implication
• Prototyping Mass Nouns: A Case of Bangladeshi ESL Learners
• Action to Attribute: Use of Verbs in Descriptive Writing
• Costumes, Customs and Cosmetics in Herrick’s and Nasreen’s Poetry: A Comparative Study
• L1 Interference in L2 Learning: A Case of Bare Nouns of Bangla and English




Conferences Attended:

Presented a research paper titled “ The Making of New Meaning: An Islamic Reading of Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”at the 2nd ELT and Applied Linguistics Conference held at Truvhuban University, Nepal (February, 2019).

Research Publications

I have published seven of my research papers in referred journals, with two more being reviewed in the USA.

Skills

Business Planning 90%
Business Law 70%
Lecture Skill 100%