Teachers’ Perceptions Towards Grade Eight English Textbook

Abstract

This research work entitled Teachers’ Perceptions Towards Grade Eight English Textbook is to analyze the textbook 'English Grade 8' in terms of physical aspect (layout and design, paper quality, letter spacing, pricing, printing and binding, pictures and availability) and academic aspect (content, language, exercises, language skills and grammatical items) used based on the teachers’ perspectives in different community and institutional schools of Kanakai Municipality of Jhapa district. The objective of this research is to explore the teachers’ perception towards English textbook of grade eight in terms of physical aspects and academic aspects and provide some pedagogical implications.The data was analyzed descriptively. The respondents for the study contained 20 English teachers who taught in grade eight. The result showed that the teachers perceived the English textbook used in grade eight is able to accomplish the learning targets. The exercises included in the textbook are supposed to provide sufficient practice to the students for developing all four language skills of language so that the outcomes of the curriculum can be achieved easily. The first chapter is introduction that includes background of the study, statement of the problems, objectives of the study, research questions, significance and delimitations of the study. The second chapter is related to the review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implication of review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter is about the methodology that contains design of the study, sources of data collection, sampling procedures, tools for data collection and process of data collection. The fourth chapter deals with analysis and interpretation of results and the fifth chapter is related to conclusion and recommendations such as policy related, practice related and further research related followed references and appendices of the study. vi