LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 9 September 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Readability: A Major Issue in Language Learning A Case Study

Muhammad Asim Mahmood, M.Phil.
Rashid Mahmood, M.Phil.

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Textbook plays a vital role in the successful working of any language programme. Textbooks must be carefully planned. Linguistic and psychological principles must be applied for attaining good results. The present research aimed to make a corpus based evaluation of the textbook of English for class 3, used in the state-run primary schools to find out the reasons of the learners' inability to comprehend the text and their failure in the acquisition of English language. The yardstick applied to evaluate the text is the reading age of the text, and the level of difficulty of the text - lexical difficulty, determined by the length of sentence, number of new vocabulary items introduced in the book, and the number of syllables. The research proved that the book is well beyond the reading age and level of the students.

Introduction

Any organized teaching-learning situation can be basically construed as consisting of a specific curriculum which, in turn, would include the syllabus, the instructional materials and the transactional strategies. The ultimate efficacy of the learning situation would thus be dependent to a large extent on the relevance of each of these components in the context of the learner and the learning outcomes (Brumfit, 1984).

In the national context of Pakistan today (and all of South Asia), the significance of an appropriate curriculum becomes even more critical in view of the efforts towards universal primary education wherein the diversity of students' needs will inevitably become still greater and so will the need to adapt educational approaches to match curriculum, instruction and learner.

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Muhammad Asim Mahmood, M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Government College University
Faisalabad 38000
Pakistan
masimrai@gmail.com

Rashid Mahmood, M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
Government College University
Faisalabad 38000
Pakistan
ch.raashidmahmood@gmail.com
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