Academic and physical aspects in the new Headway English

Abstract

The researcher in her thesis entitled"ACADEMIC AND PHYSICALASPECTS IN THENEW HEADWAY ENGLISH"tried to analyze the NewHeadway English in terms of academic and physical aspects. In the process of this study the researcher collected data from bothsources: Primary and Secondary. The primary sources of data were the responsesmade by the English Teacher. The findings of the study are based on teachers' perceptions andresearcher's own view on the textbook. The main findings of this study are asfollows:i) The textbook contains communicative activities.ii) The textbook presents four language skills in systematic way (i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing)iii) The contents include in the textbook are interesting because they introduce foreign culture.iv) The textbook lacks pronunciation aspect of language.v) The size of the textbook is odd and not durable binding. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with generalbackground of thestudy, definition of textbook, importance of textbook, types oftextbook, review of related literatures, objectives, significance and limitations of the study. The second chapter is related to the methodology applied to carryout the research. It deals with the source of data, population of the study, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the datacollected from different sources. The text book is analyze on the basis ofacademic and physical aspects. This chapter is divided into four parts. The firstpart of this chapter deals withtheanalysis of the textbook. The second part dealswiththeanalysis and interpretation of academic aspect of the textbook.The third part deals with analysis and interpretation of the physical aspects of the text book and the fourth part deals with the overall comments and suggestions expressed by the teachers on the textbook.