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- Title
Qualitative Inquiry into the Alignment of English Textbooks with the National Curriculum at Secondary Level.
- Authors
Habib, Azhar; Umar, Hazrat
- Abstract
The present study evaluated the English textbooks taught at Secondary School Certificate (SSC) level at government schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The main purpose of this research was to see the alignment between the contents of the English textbooks taught at government schools and the objectives set by the National Curriculum Wing. These books are recommended by Textbook Board in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. This is an important area of research as alignment between the the contents of the textbooks and the objectives is an essential part of effective English language teaching but according to the best of our knowledge, it has not been investigated before at the Secondary level. It is a qualitative research and the data were collected using a checklist, which focused on reading, writing, listening and speaking; the four major skills of English language. The trends in the data and the findings of the study demonstrate that the prescribed English textbooks do not adequately align with the objectives laid down by the National Curriculum Wing of the Federal Government. These textbooks are not good enough because of their lack of correspondence with the set objectives and therefore, they need to be improved by bringing them in line with the objectives. It has been found that the textbooks focus on the product approach instead of the prescribed process approach to teaching writing as they do not have brainstorming, mind mapping and outlining activities. Listening skills are altogether ignored. Reading sections of the prescribed textbooks have lower level of difficulty and are not challenging for students to make them communicatively competent. In the light of findings, the researchers have given suggestions with the hope to bring about improvement in the textbooks, and have suggested areas for further research.
- Subjects
KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan); INQUIRY (Theory of knowledge); ENGLISH language textbooks; SECONDARY education; CURRICULUM
- Publication
NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2017, Vol 15, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
2222-5706
- Publication type
Article