Raqib Chowdhury

Personal profile

Biography

Dr Raqib Chowdhury taught English literature at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1997 to 2004 as Lecturer and Assistant Professor, and then joined the Monash Faculty of Education upon completing his PhD here in 2008.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in English, a Master's degree in English Literature and a Master's degree in Education (TESOL). In his doctoral thesis he investigated how vested interest groups - such as universities and governments - construct and understand the term 'international' to establish the so-called 'needs' of international students in Australia and how such understanding is promoted for largely implicit commercial and hegemonic reasons. He is author of Desiring TESOL and International Education: Market Abuse and Exploitation (Multilingual Matters, 2014) and has published widely in the areas of TESOL and ELT, culture and pedagogy, English teacher education, international education, social justice and identity. Raqib has been invited as Keynote Speaker at three international conferences and he delivers seminars and workshops overseas on a regular basis.

His latest edited books are Engaging in Educational Research: Revisiting Policy and Practice in Bangladesh (Springer, 2018), Equity, Identity and Social Justice in Asia Pacific Education (Monash University Publishing, 2019), and Transformation and Empowerment through Education: Reconstructing Teaching and Learning (Routledge, 2019). He is currently co-authoring a monograph entitled The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh: The Politics of Intervention and Control (Routledge, 2019 - upcoming).

Raqib received two Monash University Vice-Chancellor's Social Inclusion Awards in 2010 (Winner) and 2011 (Commendation), as well as the Dean's Award for Programs That Enhance Learning in 2012. In 2003 he won the Dean's Award for Outstanding Research Publication in the Faculty of Arts, Dhaka University, where he was teaching at the time.

Raqib is currently supervising 8 doctoral candidates and is involved in a number of international collaborative projects involving Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and China on the themes of higher education reform, teacher training and professional development, and research capacity building.

Supervision interests

Education and Social Justice
International Education and International Students
Identity and Sociolinguistics
English for Academic Purposes
Culture and Pedagogy
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Monash teaching commitment

EDF 5640 Language, culture and curriculum
EDF 5642 Bilingualism and content-based programs

Research interests

Sociolinguistics
Critical ethnography
English for Academic Purposes
Culture and Pedagogy
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Bilingualism
English Teacher Education
English as an International Language
Identity
International Education and International Students

Research area keywords

ESP
Education - internationalisation of the Curriculum
Education and globalisation
Education research
English as a Second Language
International Education/Training
Language Acquisition and Development
Research Methodology
Sociolinguistics
TESOL
Transforming teaching and learning
Educating for diversity and inclusion
Bilingualism
Bilingual Education

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Research Output

16 Article
9 Chapter (Book)
4 Edited Book
1 Book
2 More
- 1 Conference Paper
- 1 Abstract

Designing Phonetic Alphabets for Bahasa Indonesia (PABI) for the teaching of intelligible English pronunciation in Indonesia

Karlina, Y., Rahman, A. & Chowdhury, R., Jan 2020, In : Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 9, 3, p. 724-732 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access

File

An ELF-based syllabus for teaching English pronunciation to Native Bengali Speakers (NBS)

Rahman, A. & Chowdhury, R., Jun 2019, In : BELTA Journal. 3, 1, p. 47-64 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Embarking on research in the social sciences: understanding the foundational concepts

Chowdhury, R., 18 Feb 2019, In : VNU Journal of Foreign Studies. 35, 1, p. 99-113 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review

Open Access

File

Identity, Equity and Social Justice in Asia Pacific Education

Chowdhury, R. & Yazdanpanah, L. K. (ed.), 2 Jan 2019, 1st ed. Clayton Vic Australia: Monash University Publishing. 186 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › Other › peer-review

Introduction: Transformation through education in contemporary times: a Freirean reconsideration

Chowdhury, R., 2019, Transformation and Empowerment Through Education: Reconstructing our Relationship with Education . Chowdhury, R. (ed.). 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 1-16 16 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review

Activities

16 Contribution to conference
8 Peer review responsibility
3 Editorial responsibility
1 Hosting an academic or industry visitor
1 More
- 1 Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board