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Md. Saiful Alam

Assistant Professor

PhD Research Fellow in TESOL at the University of Malaya
MA in English Language and Applied Linguistics from The University of Nottingham
MA in English Literature from Islamic University, Kushtia
BA (Honors) in English Literature from Islamic University, Kushtia
CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) from University of Cambridge
Certificate in TESOL: TOT from TESOL International, USA (Under a US Embassy Scholarship)
Certificate in Content-Based Instruction from SIT Graduate Institute (under a US Embassy Scholarship)
Certificate in Using Educational Technologies in Language Classrooms from IOWA State University, USA (Under a US Embassy Scholarship)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8749-3490

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NzS6--AAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md-Alam-662

Researcher ID: GWV-3708-2022

Short Biography:

Md. Saiful Alam (Saif) currently holds the position of Assistant Professor in the English Department at the World University of Bangladesh. He assumed this teaching role at WUB in December 2022. Mr. Alam's recent research interests encompass various aspects of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teaching, EFL teachers, TESOL, Applied Linguistics, and web technology-based language teaching. He has authored quite a good number of research articles published in reputable journals, including some from Wiley and Taylor and Francis, which are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for Scopus-indexed journals. Furthermore, his ongoing work includes contributing a chapter to an upcoming Springer book on AI for Writing. 

His most recent research output in 2023 (SCOPUS and Web of Science): 

  • Alam, M. S., & Asmawi, A. (2023). Navigating the aftermath of the pandemic: exploring school challenges and changes in Bangladesh. Education 3-13, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2023.2221265

  • Alam, M. S., & Asmawi, A. (2023). Understanding identity salience and English as a Foreign Language teaching practices: A case study of multi?subject generalist teachers. Review of Education, 11(3), e3424. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3424 

  • Alam, M. S.,Asmawi,A., Haque, M.H., Ullah, M.M., Patwary, M.N., Fatema, S., & Akhter, H. (2023). An Appreciation of the EFL Teacher Model in Bangladesh: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements. The International Journal of Diversity in Education 24 (1): 41-64.https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0020/CGP/v24i01/41-64 

Journal Section

  1. Alam et al., (2023). Distinguishing between Student-Authored and Chatgpt-Generated Texts: A Preliminary Exploration of Human-Evaluation Techniques

  2. Alam, M.S. (2017). EVOLUTION FROM AN AESTHETE TO A MORAL WILDE: A TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF HIS ‘THE HAPPY PRINCE. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION STUDIES (IJELR), Vol-4, Issue-01.

  3. Alam, M. S. (2017). Religious Allusions in Nazrul’s Poetry: An Intertextual Analysis. Research Journal of English Language and Literature. Vol.-5, Issue-1, Pp.365-373.

  4. Alam, M. S. (2017). The Garden Party Will Go on or Not? Who Persuades Whom? : A Modality     Analysis of Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” . European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies. Vol.-5, Issue-3, Pp.49-55. 

  5. Alam, M.S. (2017). Bangladeshi College Students' Attitude towards English Language learning. British Journal of English linguistics. Vol-5, Issue-4, Pp-29-40. 

  6. Alam, M.S. (2018). A Psychological Analysis of Parental Favoritism and Hypocrisy of Family Love in Mansfield's "New Dresses". American Research Journal of English and Literature, Vol-4,Issue-1, 10 pages

  7. Alam  M. S. (2019). Re-looking at Robert Frost’s “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” through an Islamic Prism. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 6(10)331-339

  8. Alam  M. S. (2020). Prototyping mass Nouns from Students’ Perspective: A pedagogical Implication. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 7(1). 

  9. Alam, M.S.(2020). Continuous Relevance to ‘Unspeakable Wrongness’ in Orwell’s A Hanging: A Transitivity Analysis.  Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 7(1).

  10. Alam , M. S.Asmawi , A. B.Ullah , M.Nahar , S. & Fatema , S. (2021). Appraising Katherine Mansfield’s Father Figures in “The Little Girl”: A Transitivity Analysis . Bulletin of Advanced English Studies, 5 (2), 29-46

  11. Alam, M.S. & Nahar, S. (2021). The Sense of Seasons: Readers’ Reading Resource to Understand Keats’s “To Autumn”. Hamdard University Journal, Vol-6, issue-02

  12. Alam, M. S., Akhter, H., Patwary, M. N., & Fatema, S. (2023). Islamic Articulation of the Carpe Diem Motif in Herrick’s "To Daffodils": A Post-Structuralist and Intertextual Inquiry. Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities, 3(4), 59–68

  13. Alam et al. (2022). Local alternative to global wholesale online learning during Covid-19: A phenomenological case study of a standalone school in Bangladesh. Education Research International (SCOPUS) 

  14. Ullah, M. M., Uddin, M. E., Karmakar, K., Alam, M. S., & Islam, T. (2022). Exploring EFL Teachers' Facilitating Critical Thinking Skills in Teaching Writing to Low-Proficient Undergraduate Students in Bangladesh: A Mixed Method Approach. International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, 11(4), 222-234. (SCOPUS)

  15. Alam, M.S. & Asmawi, A. (2023). Navigating the Aftermath of the Pandemic: Exploring School Challenges and Changes in Bangladesh. Education 3-13, 51 (3). (SCOPUS) 

  16. Alam, M.S., & Asmawi, A. (2023). Understanding Identity Salience and EFL Teaching Practices: A Case Study of Multi-Subject Generalist Teachers. Review of Education (SCOPUS & WoS)

  17. Alam et al. (2023). An Appreciation of the EFL Teacher Model of Bangladesh: A Content Analysis of Job advertisements. The International Journal of Diversity in Education 24 (1): 41-64. doi:10.18848/2327-0020/CGP/v24i01/41-64 (SCOPUS)

SL Collaboration & Membership Name Type Membership Year Membership Expire Year
1 TESOL International General 2023 2024
2 IATEFL General 2019 2025
3 BELTA (Bangladesh English Language Teachers' Association) Life Member 2018 N/A
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SL Certificate Title Institution Year Country
1 TESOL: TOT TESOL International 2021 USA
2 CELTA University of Cambridge 2018 UK

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