The English Program encourages both students and teachers to conduct inclusive and extensive research to create knowledge in different areas of English Literature and Applied Linguistics and ELT. Research areas of Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching (ELT) include English as a Foreign Language,  English Language Assessment, English for Specific Purpose, Phonetics and Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Stylistics, and Psycholinguistics. Prominent research areas of English Literature include Modern and Contemporary Literature, 21st century Literature and contemporary British and American fiction; women’s writing from the eighteenth century to the present; early modern literature and culture, including Shakespeare; popular Victorian fiction; Romantic poems, critical theory; and postcolonial studies.

The Program offers educational foundation in terms of research and diverse knowledge to students in order to make them accomplished professionals capable of conducting applied and theoretical research. It also instills research skills in its students so that they can identify a research area and conduct research in the aforementioned fields. Research in Applied Linguistics and ELT facilitates investigation of complex learning and teaching difficulties in the region and provides solutions of enormous challenges that the learners and teachers face in ESL contexts inside and outside the classroom environment.  Research in literature unveils the mysterious horizon that someone could never reach without the study of literature in different contexts. In-depth study of English literature and their critical analysis opens up a world of inspiration and creativity, while also developing skills that are highly valued in today’s world. Research on stories, poems, novels etc. shows the learners how literature provides meaning of the world.

The faculties are encouraged and patronized to develop research proposals and provided with the required fund, guidance, and other supports in materializing the developed research proposals.  The students get involved in conducting small scale researches in different courses in whole graduation. The students under the program are also required to submit a thesis paper based on their extensive research work. We place a great emphasis on knowledge creation in the field of Literature, English Linguistics and English Language Teaching. We aim at involving our students in knowledge creation through extensive research works in different areas so that they can identify the significance of research in academia. It is compulsory for all students to identify a research area to investigate and prepare a long paper that they prepare in the last semester of graduate study. It requires extensive research work on the part of the student. An assigned professor supervises the research work. Writing a research paper gives the chance to apply the gained knowledge during the whole program. It demonstrates students’ original research work and adds knowledge to the existing literature. The students are supposed to present their research works in a thesis defense in front of ‘Thesis Defense Board’ headed by a session chair. Thus, it is a rigorous process to shape students’ research skill and it gives the students a solid foundation for future research. This thesis is an integral component of the English program, worth 9 credit hours.

Along with the foundation and advance courses, the program offers research methodology course to make the learners familiar with the research skills required to conduct research in different fields of English Literature and Applied Linguistics and ELT. We encourage the students to initiate researches in different areas both in narrow and wide scale. The worthy initiatives receive research grants. We also put much emphasis on the development of maturity of knowledge acquired by the students. Learners are supposed to design and accomplish project works in many intermediate and advanced courses.

Research fund and facilities are provided by the IUBAT authority for functioning research activities. The authority always extends its support for all kinds of activities related to research in emerging fields of English Literature and Applied Linguistics and ELT.

The specialized faculty members and enthusiastic students submit new research proposal/s to MAMRI that provides technical assistance and other facilities required to accomplish the submitted proposal.

The faculties who conduct research work share their research findings across the whole community; the other faculties also provide feedback on shared works. Such sharing and feedback culture enhances team work and enriches research knowledge in the respective fields.