Nayana George
The textbook is an
integral tool in the ELT classroom, often functioning as the primary source of
teaching material. The education system in the Indian context places quite a
lot of importance on textbooks in their curriculum as a central part of the
syllabus dissemination. The English textbooks under consideration in this paper
are targeted at grades 10th, 11th, and 12th and are formulated by the Kerala
State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) used for the schools
affiliated to and following the Kerala State Board of
Education.
These textbooks are critically analysed using qualitative content analysis on
the included reading material and the suggested activities to evaluate them as
appropriate tools for second-language development. Through such a critical
analysis, it is established that these textbooks are quite well-developed and
all-rounded tools for second-language development, which could succeed in
fulfilling all the learning objectives and achieving all the learning outcomes
when used in an ideal classroom.
ELT textbooks, ESL
classroom, textbook analysis, ELT in India
VOL.14, ISSUE No.1, March 2022