Abu Nasar Mohammed Tofail Hossain is an Assistant Professor at School of Education, Bangladesh Open University. He has fifteen years’ experience in teaching and research in tertiary level. He has an M A in English Language Teaching from University of Dhaka, M A in English Literature from Jahangirnagar University, B. A (Hons) in English from Jahangirnagar University, Bachelor of Education degree, Certificate in Designing and Facilitating E-learning from Open Polytechnic, New Zealand. He is trained in Quality Assurance in Teacher Development from University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

His research interest includes Open and Distance Learning(ODL), Translinguaging & linguistic Racism, Task-based Language Teaching(TBLT), Constructivism, Cognitism and Behaviorism, Washback mechanism in language testing, Testing & Assessment, Materials Development, Educational Technology, Research Methodology, Discourse Analysis, Morphology and Sociolinguistics. He bears a keen interest in research based on the Liberation War of Bangladesh.