Currently, Dr. Md Kamrul Hasan is working as an associate professor in English and as a coordinator of the English Language Institute at United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his doctoral degree from Universiti Uttara Malaysia, Malaysia, and his research expertise covers Vocabulary, ELT, Sociolinguistics, and SLA. He has published thirty-two research articles in prestigious international peer-reviewed journals, namely The Journal of Asia TEFL (ASIA TEFL, South Korea), Open Linguistics (DeGruyter, Germany), Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics (Indonesia University of Education, Indonesia), MEXTESOL Journal (MEXTESOL, Mexico), and International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (Kassel University Press GmbH, Germany).

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Additional Information Regarding Educational Qualifications

Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics
Thesis Title: The Correlation and Prediction of Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge to Academic Reading Comprehension among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Learners at Tertiary Level in Bangladesh
Result: Degree awarded with the recognition of “Graduate on Time (GOT)”.
Supervisor: Dr. Ahmad Affendi Shabdin, Associate Professor
Institution: As a public university, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) ranks # 601-650 in QS World Ranking 2019 and is an AACSB accredited university.

M.Phil. in Linguistics
Thesis Title: English Language Proficiency of Bangladeshi Students: A Social Psychological Study
Result: Degree awarded with the recognition of “Graduate on Time (GOT)”
Discipline: English Language Teaching (ELT)
Supervisor: Professor R K Agnihotri
Supervising Committee: Dr. Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Associate Professor
Institution: As a public university, University of Delhi ranks # 487 in QS World University Ranking 2019.

M.A. in Linguistics
Result: Degree awarded with the recognition of “Graduate on Time (GOT)” (First class third with distinction)
Dissertations for Field Methods Supervising Committee: Prof Karumuri Venkata Subbarao and Mr. Pradeep Kumar Das
Institution: As a public university, University of Delhi ranks # 487 in QS World University Ranking 2019.

Academic Distinction
I secured not only third place (with distinction) in M.A. Linguistics, University of Delhi, Delhi in the session 2001-2003 but also I had 13th place (Combined Merit list with “Letter” marks in 4 subjects) in H.S.C (Higher Secondary Certificate) from Dhaka Board, Bangladesh in the year 1994, receiving special felicitation from the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. In addition, I secured the Distinction of “Star” and “Letter” marks in 6 subjects (Science Stream) in my S.S.C (Secondary School Certificate) from Jessore Board, Bangladesh.

Certificate Courses
1. I successfully completed (Grade Achieved: 100.0%) a four week on line course on Understanding Research Methods dated on October 25, 2016, funded and offered by University of London and SOAS University of London and Coursera.

2. I successfully completed (Grade Achieved: 98.0%) a four week on line course “Tricky English Grammar” (3 of 4 in the Learn English: Intermediate Grammar Specialization) dated on October 16, 2016, funded and offered by University of California, Irvine and Coursera.

3. I successfully completed (Grade Achieved: 95.4%) a four week on line course “Getting Started with Essay Writing” (2 of 5 courses in Academic English: Writing Specialization) dated on October 04, 2016, funded and offered by University of California, Irvine and Coursera.

4. I successfully completed (Grade Achieved: 100%) a six week on line course 1 of 4 (TESOL Certificate Part-1: Teach English Now! Lesson Design and Assessment) dated on September 08, 2016, funded and offered by Arizona State University and Coursera.

5. I successfully completed (Grade Achieved: 100%) a six week on line course 1 of 4 (TESOL Certificate Part-1: Teach English Now! Foundational Principles) dated on August 20, 2016, funded and offered by Arizona State University and Coursera.

6. I successfully completed (Grade Achieved: 95.3%) a six week on line course on “Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics” dated on August 15, 2016, funded and offered by Universiteit Leiden & Meertens instituut (KNAW) and Coursera.

7. I successfully completed (Grade Achieved: 100%) a four week on line course “Grammar and Punctuation” (1 of 5 courses in Academic English: Writing Specialization) dated on August 08, 2016, funded and offered by University of California, Irvine and Coursera.

8. I successfully completed (Grade Achieved: 99.8%) a six week on line course 2 of 4 (TESOL Certificate Part-1: Teach English Now! Theories of Second Language Acquisition), dated on July 26, 2016, funded and offered by Arizona State University and Coursera.

9. I successfully completed the following ‘Creating a Good Research Data Management Plan’, an online lecture certificate awarded by Elsevier Publishing Campus on Thursday 23 June, 2016.

10. I successfully completed the following ‘Gender Bias in Academic Publishing’, an online lecture certificate awarded by Elsevier Publishing Campus on Thursday 11 May, 2017.

11. I successfully completed the following ‘Funding Hacks for Researchers’, an online lecture certificate awarded by Elsevier Publishing Campus on Thursday 29 June, 2017.

12. I successfully completed (Grade Achieved: 81.4%) a five week on line teacher training course on Shaping the Way We Teach English 1: The Landscape of English Language Teaching, dated on May 21, 2014, funded and offered by the US Department of State and University of Oregon.

13. I successfully completed the following ‘Make a Career in Research’, an online lecture certificate awarded by Elsevier Publishing Campus on Thursday 24 August, 2017.

14. I successfully completed the following ‘10 tips for writing a truly terrible review’, an online lecture certificate awarded by Elsevier Publishing Campus on Wednesday 20 September, 2017.

15. I successfully completed every module within ‘Research Collaborations”, an online lecture certificate awarded by Research Academy on Wednesday 20 June, 2018.

16. I successfully completed the module ‘The key to successful academic collaborations’, an online lecture certificate awarded by Research Academy on Wednesday 22 August, 2018.

(i) An article titled as “Academics beware: Predatory journals are the bane of the academic world” was published in the English daily, “Dhaka Tribune” (op-Ed), page 14 on 18 March, 2017.

(ii) Another article titled as “Decentralize education, ease traffic jam” was published in the English daily, “The Daily Observer” (op-Ed), page 7 on 24 February, 2017.

(iii) The third article titled as “Predatory Journals—how much are we aware of them?” was published in the English daily, “The Independent” (Editorial), page 7 on 27 January, 2017.

(iv) The fourth article titled as “Do the students of the private universities possess an acceptable and expected level of English proficiency?” was published in the English online daily, “The News Today” (op-Ed) on 31 January, 2017.

Chapter in a Book
Hasan, M.K., & Shabdin, A.A. (2018) (in press). Manifold derivative word forms of morphological knowledge and their correlation and prediction to academic reading comprehension. In Prasannanshu, P.K. Das, A.R Fatihi & S.K. Singh (Eds.), The linguistics and the learner: Festschrift in honour of Prof. Ramesh
Chandra Sharma (Vol. II). New Delhi: Osbert Publishing House (ISBN: 9789385212192).

Published Book
1. Md. Kamrul Hasan. 2012. English Language Proficiency of Bangladeshi Students: A Pertinent Study. Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, English Language Teaching, Socio-linguistics, Second Language Acquisition

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Journal Papers