Teachers’ Perceptions towards the Use of Tasks Given in the Secondary Level Textbooks

Abstract

The present study entitled“Teachers’PerceptionsTowardstheUseof TasksGivenintheSecondary LevelTextbooks”attemptstoexplore the teachers’perceptionstowards the use of tasks given in the textbook. To accomplish thisstudy, a set ofquestionnaire was formulated and distributed to 40 secondary levelEnglish teachers in Ilam district. Half of them were fromgovernment-aidedschoolsand rest of themwerefrom the private schools. The data collected fromthe respondentswere analyzed andinterpreted to explore theirperceptionstowardstheuse of tasks given in the textbooksat the secondary level. It was found thatteacherswere familiar with the tasks given in the textbook.The study indicatesthat teachers were familiar with the importance of task for teaching four languageskills. They also opined that teachers’trainingis necessary to make effective useof tasks in teaching English. At the same time, all of them had a common viewthat different factors like large class, untrained teachers affect in the use of tasks inthe classroom. This study consists of four chapters. The first chapter introduces the study in termsof general background, review of the related literature, objectives of the study,significance of the study and definitions of the specific terms. Likewise, thesecond chapter deals with the methodology applied to conduct the study. Itconsists of the sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure,research tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of thestudy. Similarly, the third chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of the rawdata obtained form the respondents. The data were analyzed and interpreted byusing statistical tools and presented with the help of tables etc.Finally, the chapterfour deals with the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications ofthis study.