Use of Textbooks in English Language Teaching

Abstract

This research entitled Use of Textbook in English Language Teaching was an attempt to explore the use of textbook while teaching English at basic level. The main objectives of this study were to explore the experiences of the basic level English teachers towards the use of textbook in English language teaching. This study was based on survey research design. Twenty basic level English teachers from ten community schools (two teachers from each school) located at Bardibas, Municipality, Mahottari district were selected by using simple random sampling procedure. The study found that the teaching English is problematic to the teachers because of the factors like lack of training, poor grammatical knowledge, poor vocabulary power and use of mother tongue. Most of the teachers have used textbook in English language teaching due to unfamiliarity with the course content. Developing knowledge of grammar and vocabulary is very complicated task in teaching English language. Finally, some suggestions are provided for the improvement of teaching English language. This thesis has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, and significance of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, the second chapter is related to the review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. Likewise, third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study under which design of the study, population and sample, sampling procedures, data collection tools, data collection procedures, analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical consideration are mentioned. In the same way, the forth chapter consists of results and discussion of the study. The fifth chapter includes the findings, conclusion and recommendations of the study. Finally, it includes references and appendices.