Abstract
English language course-books are inevitable in English language classes. Teachers often find English language course-books very helpful. The evaluation of English language course-books will make the course-books more effective. This study evaluates ‘English for Undergraduates’- a course-book prescribed for English language classes at University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan (UOSJP). The framework of Alan Cunningsworth (1995) is partially adapted to evaluate the book on the criteria of reading skill, writing skill, representation of culture and the organization of its contents.This research study is exploratory, based on survey research design using quantitative method. This study performs post-use evaluation of ‘English for Undergraduates’ using checklist method. Questionnaire based on adapted criteria checklist is used as a data-collecting instrument. Twenty-seven (27) English language teachers of University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan (UOSJP) are the sample of this study. Data obtained is analyzed through SPSS (version 23.0) and interpreted through descriptive statistics technique. The findings of this study reveal that ‘English for Undergraduate’ meets the low degree of evaluation on the criteria of reading, culture and organization; however, criteria of writing skill meets the moderate degree of evaluation. Keywords: Textbook Textbook Evaluation Criteria for Textbook Evaluation DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-22-08 Publication date: November 30 th 2020
Highlights
1.1 Background English language has a growing prestigious status in Pakistan
The findings of this study reveal that ‘English for Undergraduate’ meets the low degree of evaluation on the criteria of reading, culture and organization; criteria of writing skill meets the moderate degree of evaluation
Higher Education Commission (HEC) in Pakistan has made English language teaching mandatory in almost all undergraduate disciplines
Summary
1.1 Background English language has a growing prestigious status in Pakistan. It has predominantly pervaded overall education system of Pakistan from primary to higher education. Following the guidelines of Higher Education Commission (HEC), University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakista (UOSJP) revised English language syllabus and introduced two new course books- ‘English for Undergraduates’ by D. Kirkpatrick and ‘Oxford Practice Grammar’ by John Eastwood in 2006 Since these course-books have been used in English language classes in almost all undergraduate degree programmes. There are some research studies done related to English language programme in University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakista (UOSJP), but no independent study is yet to be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the course-books. The outcome of any English language programme predominantly rests upon the effectiveness of the course-books. This study evaluates ‘English for Undergraduates’- a course-book used by English language teachers in all English compulsory classes at University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakista (UOSJP). The book is evaluated on the criteria of reading skill, writing skill, representation of culture and the organization adapted from the framework of Cunningsworth (1995)
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