Name

Manzoorul Abedin

E-mail Address

ma455@cam.ac.uk

Qualifications

MPhil in Education, University of Cambridge
MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
BA (Honours) in English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Membership of Professional Bodies and Associations

Fellow of Cambridge Philosophical Society. Member of IATEFL (International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language); TESOL, Inc. (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages); BERA (British Educational Research Association); BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics); BELTA ((Bangladesh English Language Teachers Association) and Leadership for Learning: The Cambridge Network

Supervisors

Dr. V. Darleen Opfer and Dr. Nidhi Singal

Profile

Manzoorul Abedin had taught English Linguistics and English as a second/foreign language to university students in Bangladesh for more than six years before he came to Cambridge in 2008 for an MPhil in Educational Leadership and School Improvement. He is currently studying for a PhD, and his thesis is titled “Malfeasance, absence, silence: Exploring English language education in Bangladesh from a critical policy sociology perspective”. Exploratory and explanatory in nature, the study aims to understand the complex dynamics of the English education sector in Bangladesh and argues for taking a policy sociology perspective for its investigation employing multiple perspectives to data collection and analysis.

Research Topics and Projects

Second/Foreign language education policy and planning; English as a second language; international agencies for education in developing countries; ICT in second/foreign language learning; educational research from a Southern perspective

Recent Projects:

Worked as research assistant with Professor Christine Howe for the project on a systematic review of research on classroom dialogue.

Worked as research assistant in the “Impact of creative partnerships and similar initiatives on student wellbeing” project with Dr Ros McLellan to assist in questionnaire processing.

Worked as research assistant with Dr Nidhi Singal (sn241@cam.ac.uk) to assist in the research work “Pathways of Hope: voices of young people with disabilities and their reflections on education” under The Disability, Education and Poverty Project (DEPP) focusing on understanding the lives of young people with disabilities living in poverty in four countries – Ghana, Kenya, India and Pakistan.

Worked as research assistant with Dr Sara Hennessy to update and edit literature review for a project titled “Uses of information and communications technology (ICT) in primary and secondary schools in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)” funded by a DelPHE grant from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), IED-EA and the Centre for Commonwealth Education at University of Cambridge.

Publications

Abedin, M. (in preparation). A Critical Evaluation of International Agencies and their Contribution in English Education of Bangladesh with Dr. V. Darleen Opfer.

Abedin, M. (in preparation). Practice, Perils and Pitfalls in ELT Research in Bangladesh. (recently presented and very well received at the 46th IATEFL Conference, Glasgow, March, 2012.)