Effectiveness of English Textbooks of Oxford University Press according to Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives

Imran , Abida; Batool , Filza; Altaf , Faiza; Lodhi , Muhammad Arfan

doi:10.31559/BAES2024.9.2.1

Article Details

Effectiveness of English Textbooks of Oxford University Press according to Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives

Authors:

Imran , Abida | Batool , Filza | Altaf , Faiza | Lodhi , Muhammad Arfan

Publisher:

Refaad for Studies, Research and Developement

Main Topics:

Education | Languages

Journal:

Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 2024 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.30-50

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

276647

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

26176459

pISSN:

26176440

DOI:

10.31559/BAES2024.9.2.1

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Keywords:

Abstract:

 Objectives: The current study is an attempt to examine the effectiveness of English textbook published by Oxford University Press and being taught to the students of grade 5 in many private schools. During last few years, government of Pakistan has implemented the concept of Single National Curriculum (SNC) to get it introduce and functional in every educational institution of the country. For this purpose, state-owned and private publishers brought modifications in their curricula and materials in order to ensure their alignment with the SNC.Methods: Researcher adopted descriptive framework in this survey-based research to gather and analyze the data quantitatively. The randomly selected 200 teachers and 100 students with equal proportion of gender was determined as the sample of the study. Two different types of questionnaires were taken as data collection tools in order to obtain information from the participants.Findings: The obtained results indicated diversity of findings regarding effectiveness and utilization of Oxford English textbooks in schools. The participants highlighted the importance of textbooks, its impressive content, logical organization, comprehensive exercises, and meticulous course learning objectives. However, it was also found that textbook is expensive, lack cultural components, ignore real life linguistic issues, and devoid of maintaining learning and teaching interest. It was also found that teachers are not given proper trainings on implementing textbook-based instructional strategies in English classrooms.Research implications: The problems and challenges highlighted by students and teachers may benefit the school administrators, implementers and managers to devise their further policies, which may facilitate learning effectively.

Article Details

Effectiveness of English Textbooks of Oxford University Press according to Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives

Authors:

Imran , Abida | Batool , Filza | Altaf , Faiza | Lodhi , Muhammad Arfan

Publisher:

Refaad for Studies, Research and Developement

Main Topics:

Education | Languages

Journal:

Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 2024 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.30-50

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

276647

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

26176459

pISSN:

26176440

DOI:

10.31559/BAES2024.9.2.1

Descriptors:

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

BOOKS

TEACHERS

UNIVERSITIES

COLLEGE STUDENTS

Textbook evaluation

Oxford english syllabus

Single national curriculum

Learning and teaching problem

Issues

Article Details

Authors: Imran , Abida | Batool , Filza | Altaf , Faiza | Lodhi , Muhammad Arfan

Publisher: Refaad for Studies, Research and Developement

Main Topics: Education | Languages

Journal: Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 2024 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.30-50

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 12/2024

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 276647

Frequency: Bi-Annual

eISSN: 26176459

pISSN: 26176440

DOI: 10.31559/BAES2024.9.2.1

Descriptors:

Issues

Authors:

Imran , Abida | Batool , Filza | Altaf , Faiza | Lodhi , Muhammad Arfan

Publisher:

Refaad for Studies, Research and Developement

Main Topics:

Education | Languages

Journal:

Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 2024 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.30-50

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

276647

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

26176459

pISSN:

26176440

DOI:

10.31559/BAES2024.9.2.1