An Analysis of New Headway Intermediate Students’ Book Prescribed for PCL 1ST Year

Abstract

This research was carried out to analyze the English textbook.‘New Headway’ for PCL 1 st year.For this, the textbook was analyzed interms of its physical and academic aspects. In the process of this study,the researcher collected data from both sources: primary and secondary.The primary sources of data were the responses made by the Englishteachers and students who had just completed this book and theresearchers. The secondary sources of data were the textbook itself, different theses in department, other books and journals related to the topic. In order to collect the data, two sets of questionnaire were prepared for theteachers and students. Apart from this, the researcher, himself studied thetextbook in great detail and two units of the textbook were randomlyselected and the analysis was made on the basis of the theoreticalframework fortextbook evaluation. The obtained data were tabulated andanalyzed using a simple statistical tool. The findings of the study are based on teachers’ perceptionsstudents’ perceptions and researcher’s own views on the textbook. Themain findings of this study are as follows: i. The textbook is appropriate in size and convenient forhandling and carrying for the students. ii. The textbook contains communicative activities.iii. The content items of the textbook are interesting because they introduce foreign culture to the students.iv. The textbook has the integration of four language skills (i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing.)