An evaluation of the tasks of IX-X textbook "English for Today": An empirical study
This thesis is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2011.
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10361-14932019-09-29T05:44:25Z An evaluation of the tasks of IX-X textbook "English for Today": An empirical study Zishnu, Zahin Antara Haque, Mohammad Mahmudul English and humanities This thesis is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2011. Cataloged from PDF version of Internship report. Includes bibliographical references (page 65 - 66). The objective of this study is to evaluate the tasks in the English textbook currently used in classes IX and X of Secondary Schools in Bangladesh. It attempts to find out if the tasks are communicative as claimed in the preface of the book. The study also seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the tasks by analyzing the perspectives of the teachers and the students through questionnaire survey. It is very unfortunate in our context that even after completing SSC (class X and IX), students from the Bangla medium schools are still unable to demonstrate sufficient competence in all the four skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) in the target language. Since, English is the second language for the learners of Bangladesh, the greatest amount of exposure they receive is in their English classes in school which is very much text book oriented. Therefore, in the light of the recent theoretical developments in the field, the study examines the effectiveness of the tasks of the textbook "English for today for class IX and V. The study looks at: (a) definitions of task, (b) task components, (c) framework, (d) task difficulty, (e) empirical basis for task-based language teaching, and (f) focus on form in task- based language teaching. For this empirical research, the researcher used teachers' and students' questionnaire along with a researcher's checklist to evaluate the book. The results show that the tasks are very effective with a few drawbacks in some areas. Zahin Antar Zishnu 2011-11-27T07:08:30Z 2011-11-27T07:08:30Z 2011 2011-07 Thesis ID 08103009 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/1493 en BRAC University thesis are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 82 pages application/pdf BRAC University |
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