INVESTIGATING THE PERSPECTIVES OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ABOUT B.SC ENGLISH TEXTBOOK: A CASE STUDY

Muhammad Safdar Bhatti; Zahida Jabeen; Rafia Mukhtar; Muhammad Bilal

doi:10.18768/ijaedu.372120

Research Article

Year 2017, , 677 - 688, 27.12.2017

Muhammad Safdar Bhatti Zahida Jabeen Rafia Mukhtar Muhammad Bilal

https://doi.org/10.18768/ijaedu.372120

Abstract

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Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition). p 101-105. Dornyei, Z. (2007) Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press. Dubin, F. & Olhstain, E.(1994). Course design : developing programs and materials for language learning. Cambridge : Cambridge Univeristy Press. Ebal, Robert L. and Frisable, David A. (1986). Essential of educational measurement. New Delhi, Prentice-Hall. Ebel. R.L., (1979). Measuring Educational Achievement, 3rd.ed, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Ena, O.T. (2013).Visual analysis of e-textbooks for senior high school in Indonesia. Unpublished EdH dissertation. Chicago : Loyola University. Feez, S. & Joyce, H. (2002). Text-based syllabus design. NSW : AMES. Garinger, D. (2001). Textbook evaluation. TEFL Web Journal. Gay L.R. (1985). Educational Evaluation and Measurement Columus Charles E. Merril Publishing Co. Genesee, F. (2001). Evaluation. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press. http:// dx. Doi.org/10.1017/ CBO 9780511667206.022. Ghani, M. (2003). “Language Learning Strategies Employed by L2 Learners”. Journal of Research (Faculty of Languages & Islamic Studies). Graves, K. (2003). Coursebooks. In Nunan, D. Practical English language teaching. New York: McGraw Hill Inc. Graves. K. (2000). Desiging Language Course. Heinle & Heinle publishers. Gronlund, N.E. (1985). Measurement and Evaluation in Teaching, 5th ed. Macmillian Publishing Company. New York. Gu, P. Y. (2003). Vocabulary Learning in Second Language: Person, Task, Context and Strategies. TESL-EJ [online], 7 (2): A-4. Available from: http://test-ej.org/ej26/a4.html [Accessed May 24th, 2010]. Harmer, J. (2001). ThePractice of English Language Teaching. Essex : Longman. Hutchinson, T. & Torres, E., (1994). The textbook as an agent . ELT Journal, 48(4), 315-28. Hutchinson, T., & Torres, E. (1994). Textbook as an agent of chang. ELT Journal, 43 (4), 315-328. Hutchinson, Tom & Torres, Eunice. (1994). 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(1985). “Evaluation in language teaching assessment accountability and awareness. Naseem, S., Shah, S.K. & Tabassum, S. (2015). Evaluation of English textbook in Pakistan: A case study of Punjab textbook for 9th class. European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies Vol.3, No.3, pp.24-42. Nayyar, A. H. & Salim, A. (2007). The Subtle Subversion: the State of Curricula and Textbooks in Pakistan. Nguyen, C.T (2015). An evaluation of the textbook English:6 A case study from secondary schools in the Mekong Delta Provinces of Vietnam. Nunan, D. (1992) Research Methods in Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press. O’Neil, R. (1993). Are textbooks of a disease? Practical English Teaching, 14/1, 12-14. Parrish, Betsy (2004). Teaching Adult ESL A Practical Introduction. McGraw Hill: New York, NY. Rajadurai J. (2005). Revisiting the Concentric Circles: Conceptual and Sociolinguistic Considerations. Asian TEFL Journal [online], VII (4). 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INVESTIGATING THE PERSPECTIVES OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ABOUT B.SC ENGLISH TEXTBOOK: A CASE STUDY

Year 2017, , 677 - 688, 27.12.2017

Muhammad Safdar Bhatti Zahida Jabeen Rafia Mukhtar Muhammad Bilal

https://doi.org/10.18768/ijaedu.372120

Abstract

Textbooks play a fundamental function in
educational programs and language classrooms around the globe. They are
extremely accessible and useful resources that teachers and students can
exploit according to their requirements. The intention of this study is to
investigate the significance and effectiveness of B.Sc English textbook which
is taught in the affiliated colleges of The IUB from the teachers and students
perspectives. The assessment of the English textbook was conducted on the
foundation of five criteria: The collection and association of contents in the
textbook, price of the textbook, four skills, grammar and vocabulary, mechanism
of the textbook. The study was conducted at three Govt. Colleges of Bahawalpur.
Quantitative information was obtained through a questionnaire administered to
200 students and 20 teachers. Percentages, frequencies, standard deviations and
mean were calculated for every item to explain on the whole depiction of how
the students and teachers rated the textbook in conditions of five criteria. The
outcomes revealed that both the students and the teachers felt negative about
the majority of the items of the textbook. It was established that both grammar
and vocabulary did not fulfill the students' needs. Majority of the teachers
and the students mentioned that the textbook material failed to enhance the
four language skills. It also indicated that there were no exercises and
activities included in the textbook. Most of the students and all the teachers
declared that textbook was not up to the level of the students.

Keywords

Investigating, perspectives, textbook, revealed, enhance

References

Acklam, R. (1994). The role of coursebook. Practical English Teaching, 14(3), 12-14. Aftab, A. (2011). English language textbooks evaluation in Pakistan. University of Birmingham. Alderson, J. C. (1992). “Guidelines for the evaluation of language education.” In Alderon, J.C. and Beretla, A. (Eds.), Evaluating Second Language Education” Cambridge, UK: CUP. 274.304. Ansary. H. and Babi, E. (2002). “Universal Charastrictics of Evaluation”. The Internet TESL Journal 8/2. (March 9, 2003). Available: http:// itesIj.org/Articles/Ansary-Textbook/. Ashraf, H. (2006) :The Official Language of Pakistan” in A study of English Language Learning as an Element Affecting the Social Capital of the people of Pakistan [online], pp 90-114. Avilable from: http://prr.hec.gov.pk/Chapter/2423-6.pdf [Accessed February 25th, 2011] Awasthi, R.J., (2006). Textbook and its evaluation. Journal of NELTA, 11(1-2), 1-10. Banks, James. A. & Ambrose. A. Clegg, Jr. 1977. Teaching Strategies for the Social Studies: Inquiry, Valuating, and Decision Making. Massachusetts: Adison: Wesley Publishing Company. Bell, M.(1982). “Guidelines for the Evaluation of TAFE Programs Technical and Further Education Services.” Austraila. Bitterlin, Gretchen. (2003). TESOL Standards for Adult Education ESL Programs. TESOL: Alexandria, Virginia. Brown, J. D. and Rodgers, T. S. (2002) Doing Second Language Research. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press. Cohen, L. and Manoin, L. (1889) Research Methods in Education. 3rd ed London: Routledge. Cook, V. (2001) Second Language Learning and Language Teaching. 3rd ed. London: Arnold. Cortazzi, M. & Jin, L. (1999). Cultural Mirrors, Materials and methods in the EFL classroom. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), culturevin Second Language Teaching and Learning. Cambridge Univeristy Press: USA. Cunningsworth, A. (1995). Choosing your coursebooks. Oxford : Maxmillian Heienman ELT. D. J. Short (2006). Content Teaching and Learning and Language. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition). p 101-105. Dornyei, Z. (2007) Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press. Dubin, F. & Olhstain, E.(1994). Course design : developing programs and materials for language learning. Cambridge : Cambridge Univeristy Press. Ebal, Robert L. and Frisable, David A. (1986). Essential of educational measurement. New Delhi, Prentice-Hall. Ebel. R.L., (1979). Measuring Educational Achievement, 3rd.ed, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Ena, O.T. (2013).Visual analysis of e-textbooks for senior high school in Indonesia. Unpublished EdH dissertation. Chicago : Loyola University. Feez, S. & Joyce, H. (2002). Text-based syllabus design. NSW : AMES. Garinger, D. (2001). Textbook evaluation. TEFL Web Journal. Gay L.R. (1985). Educational Evaluation and Measurement Columus Charles E. Merril Publishing Co. Genesee, F. (2001). Evaluation. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press. http:// dx. Doi.org/10.1017/ CBO 9780511667206.022. Ghani, M. (2003). “Language Learning Strategies Employed by L2 Learners”. Journal of Research (Faculty of Languages & Islamic Studies). Graves, K. (2003). Coursebooks. In Nunan, D. Practical English language teaching. New York: McGraw Hill Inc. Graves. K. (2000). Desiging Language Course. Heinle & Heinle publishers. Gronlund, N.E. (1985). Measurement and Evaluation in Teaching, 5th ed. Macmillian Publishing Company. New York. Gu, P. Y. (2003). Vocabulary Learning in Second Language: Person, Task, Context and Strategies. TESL-EJ [online], 7 (2): A-4. Available from: http://test-ej.org/ej26/a4.html [Accessed May 24th, 2010]. Harmer, J. (2001). ThePractice of English Language Teaching. Essex : Longman. Hutchinson, T. & Torres, E., (1994). The textbook as an agent . ELT Journal, 48(4), 315-28. Hutchinson, T., & Torres, E. (1994). Textbook as an agent of chang. ELT Journal, 43 (4), 315-328. Hutchinson, Tom & Torres, Eunice. (1994). The textbook as agent of change. ELT Journal Volume 48/4 October 1994 : 315-328. Hyland, K. (2002). Teaching and researching writing. London : Pearson Education. Iwai, Y. (2010). Revisioning Reading Comprehension for English Language Learners. The Internet TESL Journal [online], XVI (4). Available from: http://itesIj.org/Articles/Iwai-Reading.html [Accessed June 5th, 2010]. Lathif, M. (2015). An Evaluation of English textbook for the Eighth Grades of Junior High School. Faculty of languages and arts Yogyakarta State University. Litz. D. (2001). Textbook Evaluation and ELT management: A South Korean Case Study. [online] UAE Univeristy of AL Amin. Available: http:// www.asian-efl-journa.com/Litz thesis. pdf. Mackey, A. and Gass, S. M. (2005) Second Language Research: Methodology and Design. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Mariani, Chales. F. (1980). “Course Maintenance: The problem and Solution”.Educational Technology. Vol. XX, No. 12. Masuhara, H. (1998). What do teachers really want from textbook? In Tomlinson, B. Materials development for language teaching. Cambridge : Cambridge Univeristy Press. McCormick, R. and James, M. Clift, P. (2006). “Curriculum Evaluation in Schools”. London: Routeleg. Metha, N. K. (2009). Vocabulary Teaching: Effective Methodologies. The Internet TESL Journal [online], XV (3). Available from: http://itesIj.org/Techniques/Metha-Vocabulary.html [Accessed June 5th , 2010]. Minh, N.T.T. (2007). Textbook evaluation: The case of English textbooks currently in use in Vietnam’s upper secondary schools. College of Foreign Languages Vietnam National University Hanoi. Morley, Joan. (1979). Material Development: The New Frontier Not by chance But by Design on TESOL 79: 12-24. Mukundan, J., Nimehchisalem, V, & Hajimohammadi, R. (2011). Developing an English language textbook evaluation checklist : A focus group discussion. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 1 (12), 100-106. Murphy, D.F. (1985). “Evaluation in language teaching assessment accountability and awareness. Naseem, S., Shah, S.K. & Tabassum, S. (2015). Evaluation of English textbook in Pakistan: A case study of Punjab textbook for 9th class. European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies Vol.3, No.3, pp.24-42. Nayyar, A. H. & Salim, A. (2007). The Subtle Subversion: the State of Curricula and Textbooks in Pakistan. Nguyen, C.T (2015). An evaluation of the textbook English:6 A case study from secondary schools in the Mekong Delta Provinces of Vietnam. Nunan, D. (1992) Research Methods in Language Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press. O’Neil, R. (1993). Are textbooks of a disease? Practical English Teaching, 14/1, 12-14. Parrish, Betsy (2004). Teaching Adult ESL A Practical Introduction. McGraw Hill: New York, NY. Rajadurai J. (2005). Revisiting the Concentric Circles: Conceptual and Sociolinguistic Considerations. Asian TEFL Journal [online], VII (4). Avilable from: http:// www.asian-efl – journal.com/December-05-jr.php[Accessed January 26th, 2011]. Richards, J.C. (2001). Curriculum development in language teaching. Cmbridge Univeristy Press. Riddell, D. (2003). Teaching English as a forein language. New York : Teach Yourself. Robinson, M. (1991). “ESP Today: a practitioner’s guide.” New York: Prentice-Hall. Wen CWH, Chein L and Chung LC (2011). Thinking of the textbook in the esl/efl classroom. English Laguage Teaching 4(2) 91-96. Wiersma, William and Jurs, G. (1990). Educational Measurement and Testing London, allyn and Bscon.

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Journal Section	Articles
Authors	Muhammad Safdar Bhatti Zahida Jabeen Rafia Mukhtar Muhammad Bilal
Publication Date	December 27, 2017
Submission Date	September 5, 2017
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EndNote	Bhatti MS, Jabeen Z, Mukhtar R, Bilal M (December 1, 2017) INVESTIGATING THE PERSPECTIVES OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ABOUT B.SC ENGLISH TEXTBOOK: A CASE STUDY. IJAEDU- International E-Journal of Advances in Education 3 9 677–688.