Research
My research sits where English language teaching meets technology, assessment practice and literature. I work mainly with qualitative and mixed methods, and I collaborate with colleagues across Bangladeshi universities.
Proposed doctoral research
Working title: Generative AI and multimodal digital tools in multilingual learners’ academic English: learner and teacher perspectives from South Asian higher education
Generative AI and design tools such as Canva are entering English classrooms faster than research can follow, and most of that research comes from the Global North. Little is known about how multilingual learners in South Asian higher education, and the teachers who support them, actually use these tools to develop academic English, and where the tools help or hold learning back.
Guiding questions
- How do multilingual learners use generative AI and multimodal tools in academic speaking, presenting and writing tasks?
- How do these tools shape learners’ confidence, participation and sense of authorship?
- What do teachers need, in pedagogy and professional development, to integrate these tools in ways that are critical and context-sensitive?
Design: qualitative and mixed methods, including classroom-based action research, learner and teacher interviews, and analysis of multimodal student work.
Groundwork already done: the Canva and presentation skills study (ERLS 2026), the P.L.A.Y. framework for AI-integrated gamified tasks (EWU-BELTA 2026), a study of AI and academic English among secondary students in Bangladesh, and teacher development workshops on Canva for four-skills ELT.
I am looking for doctoral supervision in applied linguistics or English language education and would welcome a conversation with potential supervisors. Get in touch.
Research interests
- Gamification and AI-integrated English language teaching
- Multimodal pedagogy and digital presentation tools
- Teacher professional practice, including assessment and invigilation
- Textbook and curriculum analysis
- Postcolonial and ecocritical literary studies
Current projects
- Canva and English presentation skills: a mixed-methods study with university students in Chattogram and Sylhet (with colleagues).
- Canva for four-skills ELT: a TPACK and multimodality study of teacher professional development, using reflexive thematic analysis (manuscript in preparation).
- Ecological discourse in English for Today: an ecocritical corpus analysis of Bangladesh NCTB secondary English textbooks (Classes 6 and 8).
- Examination invigilation as professional practice: an autoethnography.
- When the slides fail: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of presenters' experiences of live technology failure.
- Al Mahmud's Sonali Kabin and T. S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent": a comparative reading through modernist, postcolonial and ecocritical lenses.
Recent presentations
- ERLS 2026, 2nd International Conference of BRAC Institute of Languages, BRAC University, Dhaka: Enhancing English presentation skills through Canva: Student perceptions from Bangladeshi private higher education (with Shuva Karmaker and Shaikat Das). Read the reflection.
- Co-presenter, EWU-BELTA Conference 2026: AI-integrated gamified tasks for EFL learner engagement (the P.L.A.Y. framework).
- Earlier conference papers and proposals: see Conferences and Research Paper.
Profiles
I welcome collaboration on ELT, digital pedagogy and literary research. Please get in touch through the contact page.