Abstract-The paper investigates the answer scripts of an "English Writing" exam of 72 students in a Bangladeshi university in order to find out the nature and extent of the use of connectors in their second semester-final exam. It also tries to find out similarities and differences between the connector use of Bangladeshi non-native speakers (BNNS) and that of French, Japanese, Swedish, and Chinese non-native speakers on the one hand and between the connector use of BNNS and that of the native speakers of English (only British and American) on the other. To this end, the secondary data for other non-native and native speakers (NS) of almost the same age and level were collected from some published articles. The paper finds that in comparison to NS, BNNS, like most other non-native speakers, underuse most of the connectors.
The paper attempts to throw light on the languages used by Bangladeshi expatriate students in Saudi Arabia as well as their feelings and thoughts towards their mother tongue. To meet this end, 175 students of Bangladesh International School in Jeddah (both Bengali and English medium) were asked to fill up a questionnaire and later some of them were interviewed randomly to have a better understanding of their approaches towards different languages. Since no research has yet been conducted in this field, this paper brings to light a number of exciting findings including a multilingual young Bangladeshi community abroad along with a visible demarcation regarding different sociolinguistic aspects such as the medium of instruction of education and their gender.
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