Today our topic of discussion is – Brief context of Bangladesh
Brief context of Bangladesh
This research is done in Bangladesh and also in Bengali perspective, so there is little need to present ‘Bangladesh Context’ individually. But still I felt the urge to include this small segment to present an idea of Bengali family structure.
In Bangladesh family structures were mostly ‘join’ where parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts lived with the children under the same roof (especially in villages). Children grew up interacting with all the family members, receiving plenty of social and language
input. Only the mother did not have to take the extra load of taking care of both the child and the household chores. Now family structures have become ‘nuclear’ mostly, not in cities but in villages also. Because of job, career, children’s education (or the death of the elderly persons) left no choice for the child other than staying alone with parents only.
Sometimes both of the grandparents or one of them stays with the child (not a regular scenario). In such cases, the mother depends more on housemaids to take care of the child when she has to go to the office or work at home. Or she can spend little quality time with the child. The nature and rate of receiving language input differ due to such unavoidable social circumstances.
For example, in joint family’s children get language and behavioural inputs from many family members and learn vocabularies and language use comparatively faster. In single families if the mother is a house wife she might getan adequate amount of time to spend with the children, but a working mother has to depend more on house maids or any other caregivers.
The child gets most of the language input from them, TV shows and currently from ‘Smart’ phones. But in all these cases the family and surrounding environment where the child is growing up is very much important as the child will be getting his first participation of all type from there.
So a part of my research really depends on the children’s living environment which will help me to know the nature of the language and behavioural inputs the child is getting. Moreover, it is also necessary for me as I have to collect the data from the child’s natural living environment too.
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