Perception of students and teachers on guidebook for English language learning

Abstract

In Bangladesh, the popularity of guidebook is on extreme level in the current situation. In the era of technology, despite having of it, students, teachers are running after result oriented education system. Nowadays, students put more emphasis on guidebooks instead of their textbooks. This popularity of guidebook is crucial to investigate as it reflects the curriculum system of Bangladesh. This thesis aims at finding out the point of view students and teachers in terms of using guidebook as a supplementary material for English and what motivates them to use guidebooks instead textbook in a English learning classroom. A focus group was arranged for investigating the reasons behind the popularity of guidebooks among students and teachers which reflects the Bangladesh education system.