Use of textbook in secondary classroom in Dhaka for teaching and learning English

Abstract

Textbook is the traditional way to teach and learn a language. In language teaching class textbooks play a vital role. It is important to learn English as it is an international or the most widely spoken language in the world. The purpose of my study was to investigate the use of textbook in the secondary level for teaching and learning English in Dhaka city. Now, teachers face many challenges while they following the textbooks as guidelines for teaching language. From my research, I found some problems on following the textbook in the language classes of secondary level. There is the lack of teachers training, classroom materials, technology, tendency to skip the activities which are not important for exam, no marks on listening and speaking skills. Some suggestions of those problems are teachers training, available materials, technology, the changes of the assessment system. Firstly, it explores the historical background of using textbook in the secondary level language classes. Secondly, it designs the research methods by qualitative techniques to find out the answer of research questions. Then it provides an elaboration of the research findings based on collected data from the teachers and students face to face interview. Finally, it reports on the brief summary of this study based on the findings.