Profile

Hi, I am Dr. A R M Mostafizar Rahman, a professor at English Discipline at the Khulna University. I am also working as an adjunct faculty and acting Head of the Dept of English at Bangladesh Army University of Science and Technology Khulna (BAUSTK).

I obtained my BA (Hons.) in English and MA in English Language Teaching (ELT) from Aligarh Muslim University, India in 1999 and 2001 respectively. I earned my second MA in Applied Linguistics from University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia in 2008, and PhD in Language Studies from the National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2019. I am a linguist with research interests in sociolinguistics; sociophonetics; discourse studies; ecolinguistics; ethnolinguistics; contact linguistics; language choice, attitudes, and ideologies; dialectology; ELT; applied linguistics; globalization, migration, and super-diversity.

• Adjunct Professor, Adviser, and Acting Head at BAUST Khulna
• Professor (Grade 2) at Khulna University (From 01 June 2021 to to-date)
• Professor (Grade 3) at Khulna University (From 11 October 2012 to 31-05-2021)
• Associate Professor at Khulna University (From 11 October 2008 to 10 October 2012)
• Assistant Professor at Khulna University (From 11 October 2004 to 10 October 2008)
• Lecturer at Khulna University (From 20 August 2002 to 10 October 2004)
• Lecturer at BIT, Rajshahi (From 11 October 2001 to 19 August 2002)

• Mostafizar Rahman, A. R. M. (2017). Tense-lax merger: Bangla as a first language speakers’ pronunciation of English monophthongs. Asian Englishes, 19(3), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/13488678.2017.1327834
• Mamun, Sk. A. A., Mostafizar Rahman, A. R. M., Rahman, A. R. M. M., & Hossain, M. A. (2012). Students’ attitudes towards English: The case of Life Science School of Khulna University. International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities, 3(1), 200-209.
• Mostafizar Rahman, A. R. M., Chan, S. H., & Ain, N. A. (2010). Language choice in education in a multilingual setting: The Malaysian context. Khulna University Studies, 10(1 & 2), 9-22.
• Mostafizar Rahman, A. R. M. (2010). Language choice and use in multilingual contexts: Patterns and its constraints. Leipzig: Lambert Academic Publishing.
• Mostafizar Rahman, A. R. M. (2008). Attitudes towards English among Malaysian undergraduates. Language in India, 8(2), 1-14.