
Md Nabinur Rahman
- Email: ed20mnr@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Investigating EAP teachers’ agency construction in teaching academic writing at the university level in Bangladesh
- Supervisors: Professor Judith Hanks (SFHEA), Dr Diana Mazgutova, Dr Loreto Aliaga Salas
Profile
I am a second-year Postgraduate Researcher in Language Education at the School of Education, University of Leeds. My doctoral research explores how English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teachers in Bangladesh construct their teacher agency while teaching academic writing to undergraduate students in higher education settings.
I have been engaged in English language teaching at the tertiary level in Bangladesh since 2015. Following the completion of my BA (Hons) in English and MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching (ELT) from the University of Dhaka, I began my academic career as a novice lecturer at a private university in Dhaka. In 2016, I joined the Institute of Modern Languages (IML), University of Dhaka, one of the country’s most prestigious institutions, as a full-time lecturer, where I have taught both ESOL undergraduate and TESOL postgraduate modules, undertaken classroom-based action research, and held a range of administrative responsibilities.
Research interests
In 2021, I completed an MA in TESOL with Distinction at the University of Leeds. During this time, I developed a focused interest in the intersection of teacher agency and academic writing pedagogy. While my broader interests included language skills instruction and EAP, my sustained engagement with academic writing and feedback practices, combined with earlier teaching experience, led me to design a doctoral project that investigates the under-researched area of teacher agency in EAP writing instruction within the South Asian higher education context.
Having completed the pilot phase of my study, I am currently undertaking longitudinal data collection in the target research setting. This research seeks to understand not only how EAP teachers exercise agency in the classroom, but also how their pedagogical decision-making is shaped by institutional and contextual constraints related to academic writing instruction.
As an early-career researcher, my interests include, but are not limited to, teacher agency in EAP, academic writing pedagogy, feedback literacy in second language writing, language skills instruction in higher education, and English language education in South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh.
You can view my research profile and publication record via my ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3838-5992.
Qualifications
- MA in TESOL – University of Leeds (2021, Distinction)
- MA (Dean’s International Postgraduate Scholarship - School of Education, University of Leeds)
- MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT – University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- BA (Hons) in English – University of Dhaka, Bangladesh