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Asifa Sultana, PhD

Associate Professor

Dr. Asifa Sultana joined ENH as a faculty member in 2008. She has completed her PhD in language development of Bangladeshi children from University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2015.  She is currently involved in a range of research projects on child language development that connect Bangla child language data to the vast crosslinguistic body of work conducted in this area. She teaches courses in the Applied Linguistics and ELT stream, and supervises theses of both undergraduate- and graduate-level students at the department. 

Department of English and Humanities

Address

s.asifa@bracu.ac.bd


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    PhD| March 2015 | Department of Communications Disorders, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    • Area: Speech and language Sciences
    • Thesis title: Morphosyntactic Development of Typically- and Atypically-developing Bangla- speaking Pre-school Children

    M.A. in English | April 2008 | English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad

    • Area: Linguistics And English Language Education

    B.A. (English)| April 2006 | University of Delhi

    • Area: English Literature

     

  • Publications

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    Book Chapters

    Sultana, A., Fletcher, P., Klee, T., & Stokes, S. F. (2019). Ba-LARSP: Towards a profile of Bangla. In M. J. Ball, P. Fletcher, & D. Crystal (Eds.), Assessing Grammar: Even more languages of LARSP (pp. 192–208). UK: Multilingual Matters.

    Journals

    Mazumdar, B., Donovan, N. J., & Sultana, A. (2020). Comparing language samples of Bangla speakers using a colour photograph and a black-and-white line drawing. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 55, 793–805. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12564

    Sanjana, L., & Sultana, A. (2019). Productivity of verb stems and inflections in Bangla-speaking children. Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development, 7(3), 73–90.

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S. F., Klee, T., & Fletcher, P. (2019). Development of verb inflections among Bangla-speaking children with language disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 54(1), 143–153. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12438

    Fabee, N., & Sultana, A. (2019). Online language teacher education in Bangladesh: A possibility ahead. BELTA Journal, 3(1), 1–16. Retrieved from https://www.belta-bd.org/journals/03/0302.pdf

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S., Klee, T., & Fletcher, P. (2016). Morphosyntactic development of Bangla-speaking preschool children. First Language, 36(6), 637–657. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723716673958

    Sultana, A. (2016). Morphological development of Bangla-speaking children: A pilot study. The EFL Journal, 7(1), 73–92. Retrieved from http://www.openhumanitiesalliance.org/journals/eflj/article/view/94/81

    Mohiuddin, M., & Sultana, A. (2016). Preferences and problems in feedback techniques of Bangladeshi tertiary level students. Crossings: A Journal of English Studies, 7, 171–184. Retrieved from https://sah.ulab.edu.bd/crossings/

    Sultana, A. (2016). Description of verb morphology in colloquial Bangla. BRAC University Journal, 11(1), 69–77. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10361/6779

    Sultana, A. (2010). Specific language impairment: When only language becomes difficult. BRAC University Journal, (Special Issue (01)), 94–100. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10361/5162

    Sultana, A. (2009). Peer Correction in ESL classrooms. BRAC University Journal, 6(1), 11–19. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10361/450

    Conferences

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S. F., Fletcher, P., & Klee, T. (2015). Development of verb morphology in Bangla-speaking preschool children. In 37th International Conference of Linguistic Society. New Delhi

    Sultana, A., Mazumdar, B., & Donovan, N. (2019). Comparing language samples based on high-context color photograph compared to line drawing. Florida.

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S., Klee, T., & Fletcher, P. (2017). Use of verb morphology among Bangla-speaking children with language difficulties. In International Conference on Language Acquisition, Impairment, and Intervention. Dhaka.

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S. F., Fletcher, P., & Klee, T. (2016). Verb form use by Bangla-speaking preschool children. In EUCLDIS 2016. Budapest.

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S. F., Fletcher, P., & Klee, T. (2016). Morphosyntactic development of Bangla-speaking children with language impairment. Hawaii.

    Sultana, A. (2015). A description of verb morphology in standard and colloquial Bangla. In 4th International Congress of Bengal Studies. Tokyo.

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S. F., Fletcher, P., & Klee, T. (2014). Morphosyntactic development of Bangla-speaking pre-school children. Wisconsin.

  • Professional Activities

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    Project Coordinator, Evaluating Secondary School English Language Teaching and Learning in Bangladesh (2017- 2018) (Grant awarded to the Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh/ Supported by the RELO Grant, American Centre).

    Contributor of the Bangladeshi non-standard variety of English to the world atlas eWAVE (http://ewave-atlas.org/). Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Germany (to start from January ’16).

    Key organiser of the International Conference on Language Acquisition, Impairment, and Intervention (March, 2016)

    Organiser of a two-day International conference on Rethinking Disciplinary Diversity: Challenges of Teaching English in the 21st Century (November ’18)

    Member of the curriculum review committee (Department of English & Humanities)

    Professional Skills/Trainings

    Course on Moodle (modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment) organized by the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (November, 2017)

    Online course on Transferable Skills Project organised by Auckland University of Technology, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Canterbury, August – November 2013

    BRACU Faculty Orientation organised by Institute of Educational Development, BRAC University, September 2008

  • Courses Taught

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    Principles of Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, ELT Methodology, Teaching Practicum, Research Methodology, Aspects of Language, English as a Second Language: Theory and Practice

  • Conferences, Talks, and Speaking Engagements

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    Sultana, A., Stokes, S., Klee, T., & Fletcher, P. (2016). Verb Form Use by Bangla-speaking Preschool Children. Paper presented at EUCLDIS 2016, Budapest (11th-13th May).

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S., Klee, T., & Fletcher, P. (2016). Use of verb morphology among Bangla-speaking children with language difficulties. Paper presented at the International Conference on Language Acquisition, Impairment, and Intervention (24th March).

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S., Klee, T., & Fletcher, P. (2016). Morphosyntactic Development of Bangla-Speaking Children with Language Impairment. Virtually presented poster at the IAFOR Conference on Language Learning, 2016, Honolulu, Hawaii (8th - 11th January).

    Sultana, A. (2015). A Description of Verb Morphology in Standard and Colloquial Bangla. Paper accepted (did not participate) at the 4th International Congress of Bengal Studies 2015, Tokyo (12th- 13th December).

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S., Klee, T., & Fletcher, P. (2015). Development of Verb Morphology in Bangla-speaking Preschool Children. Paper presented at the 37th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, New Delhi (15th- 17th October).

    Sultana, A., Stokes, S. F., Klee, T., & Fletcher, P. (2014). Morphosyntactic development of Bangla-speaking pre-school children. Poster presented at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD), Madison, Wisconsin, USA (June).

     

  • Awards, Honors

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    The SRCLD Star Student Travel Award, 35th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD) in Madison, Wisconsin, June 2014

    University of Canterbury Doctoral Scholarship, 2011- 2014

    Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Scholarship, 2003-2006

    5th position in the combined merit list in the Higher Secondary School Certificate examination (2002)

    2nd position in the combined merit list in the Secondary School Certificate examination (2000)

  • Membership

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    Life member of the Linguistics society of India (since October 2015) (membership no. 36/2015)

  • Research Areas/Interests

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    Identification of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in Bangla

    Development of morphological and syntactic profiles of typically- and atypically-developing Bangla-speaking children

News & Events

In Memory of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed

January 15th, 2021
The Secret Sauce of Brac UniversityVincent ChangVice-Chancellor & President,

Brac University Continues Student Assistance Fund for Spring 2021

January 5th, 2021
Brac University is going to continue the Student Assistance Fund for another

Worst of Times, Best of Times

January 5th, 2021
Worst of Times, Best of Times Professor Vincent Chang Vice-Chancellor, Brac

Team ROOTS Win D2S Business Competition

January 5th, 2021
GSM EMBA students' "TEAM ROOTS" wins international pitch competition

BRAC IED's Short Course On Learning Through Play

January 19th, 2021 - 8:00am
BRAC IED IS INTRODUCING THE FIRST ONLINE SHORT COURSE ON "LEARNING THROUGH PLAY






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