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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-772-9-0166

USE OF DIGITAL CONTENT IN ENSURING INTEGRITY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION: PERSPECTIVE OF BANGLADESH

Rahul Chandra Shaha, Md Sakhawat Hossain, Md Asaduzzaman
Jagannath University, Bangladesh

The use of digital content (DC) in teaching and learning English has become a buzzword. Infusing DC into the English teaching-learning process is really important as it caters the needs of the contemporary learners. At the same time, the availability of DC allows learners to adopt many unfair means by copy-pasting. So, it is important to ensure the integrity for teaching and learning in today’s world. This study focused on exploring the actual use of DC in ensuring integrity for teaching and learning English at grade IX–X of Bangladesh and finding out the challenges of using DC in ensuring integrity. A mixed method design (Creswell, 2012) has been employed to conduct the study. To accomplish the study, data has been collected from teachers, students and content specialists by using semi-structured interview schedule, semi- structured questionnaire, FGD and classroom observation checklist. The data was analysed in mixed approaches using simple statistics and thematic analysis process and presented through tables and graphs. The result and detailed analysis of the study have brought out that most of the teachers use free plagiarism software for tracing out unethical writings in English for ensuring integrity in English subject. This study also brings into light that lack of necessary equipment (there is no plagiarism deduct software in the observed school) and teachers’ negative attitudes toward using DC are the prevalent challenges of using DC in ensuring integrity for teaching and learning English. In this circumstance, the study suggests that schools should be provided with new equipment such as plagiarism deducts software strategically and equitably for frequent and successful trace out, and teachers should get training on how to use DC effectively in ensuring integrity.

Keywords: Bangladesh, Digital Content, English, Integrity, Mixed Method, Teaching-Learning

pages: 166-177



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