LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:8 August 2020
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Revisiting the EFL Coursebook for the Higher Secondary Level of Education in Bangladesh: An Appraisal

Md. Mahbubul Alam

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The place of a coursebook in an EFL classroom is of ample academic significance and worth. English for Today is the common title of the English coursebook prescribed for primary, secondary and higher secondary levels of education in Bangladesh. This coursebook is the harbinger of Communicative Language Teaching. The present study analytically sheds light on the practicality and unattainability of this coursebook prescribed for the higher secondary level based on the only the criteria like- language skills, learners’ activities, inclusion of literary and stimulating contents and cultural representation. This paper shows, how the criteria are dealt with in the textbook and to what extent they maintain close proximity with the academic reality of our context. At the closing line of the paper, some deviations of English for Today as a context-oriented EFL textbook have been disclosed.

Keywords: Bangladesh, course book, learners, teachers, culture, skills, activities, EFL & CLT.

1. Introduction

In the EFL arena, the implication of a textbook that comprises every aspect of auspicious teaching/learning requirements is enormously fingered. Second language teaching and learning is an intricate as well as multifarious process where a textbook plays very vibrant role. According to Wen-Cheng, Chien-Hung, & Chung-Chieh (2011),“Textbooks remain a staple within school curricula worldwide, presenting teachers and students with the official knowledge of school subjects as well as the preferred values, attitudes, skills, and behaviors of experts in those fields”(p. 92). The EFL textbook in Bangladesh, commonly titled as English for Today, is also playing very hands-on role to our EFL teachers and learners for many years. The present study actually deals with the practicality and the unattainability of the textbook English for Today for the higher secondary level. This paper is a review study based on the practical experiences of the researcher as an EFL teacher as well as some theoretical and research articles in the relevant ground.

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Md. Mahbubul Alam
M.Phil. Fellow (Jahangirnagar University)
Lecturer in English
Bangladesh Cadet Colleges
mahbubdell06@gmail.com
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