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Desire to Write Poetry:
Gender Differences in Bangladeshi Undergraduate Students

Sukanto Roy, Ph.D. Candidate in Composition & TESOL
Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to measure Bangladeshi undergraduate male and female students’ willingness to write poetry in English. Fifty (N=50) Bangladeshi undergraduate students at a private university of Bangladesh completed an online survey. Out of 50 students, 31 students were male and 19 students were female. During the survey, participants were asked to mention about their experiences and willingness to write poetry in English. The university is located at Dhaka which is the capital of Bangladesh. Statistical measured revealed significant difference between males and females in their desire to write poetry in English. This study has shown that male undergraduate students have higher desire to write poetry in English than female undergraduate students in Bangladesh. However, this result may not be generalized due to small sample.

Keywords: Writing poetry, gender differences, Bangladeshi undergraduate students

Introduction

English is taught from grade one to twelve as a compulsory subject in Bangladesh, though English language teaching in Bangladesh has been changing in recent years. The Ministry of Education of Bangladesh has introduced Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) from grade six to grade twelve for teaching English with the goal of improving learners’ communicative competence. However, many English teachers of Bangladesh still use the traditional Grammar-Translation Method and mainly those teachers are reluctant to teach poetry writing in their classes (Roy, 2016a). Thus, students in Bangladesh do not develop the competency to write poems in English. This study tries to investigate the desire to write poetry by Bangladeshi undergraduate students based on their gender. However, research in large scale is required to claim generable result in the context of Bangladesh.

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Sukanto Roy, PhD Candidate in Composition & TESOL
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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