Learner-centred Instruction in English As a Foreign Language: the Bangladesh Context

Scholarly Research paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, Jahangirnagar University (Department of English), course: Applied Linguistics and ELT, language: English, abstract: Learner-centred instruction in a second/foreign language fosters learner autonomy, enhances metacognitive skills, and develops learners' communicative competence, and is in consonance with the communicative language teaching approach to teaching English as a foreign language in Bangladesh. However, the current scenario of English education in the Bangladesh setting shaped by the age-old practice of the grammar-translation method and teacher-domination hardly exhibits learner-centredness. This paper then firstly tries to explicate learner autonomy, metacognition, and learner-centred second/foreign language classrooms, and secondly explores the Bangladesh context.