TEACHING THROUGH TEXTBOOK: A PERSPECTIVE OF LANGUAGE TEACHER TRAINEES IN MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM

Abstract

Textbooks are regarded as one of the most important teaching learning materials of education system. NCTE has given permission to use textbooks in teaching-learning process of the language. So, the researcher in this study wanted to measure the level of usage of textbooks and reference books in language classroom based on educational qualification. In a multicultural classroom it is the need of the hour to teach through textbooks as different students can read the texts written in a target language. The researcher in this study developed a close-ended standardized five-point likert skill questionnaire to measure the level of textbook and reference book usage by the language teacher trainees. The reliability and validity were checked. Percentage analysis was used and the result revealed that language teacher trainees in their classroom used textbooks and reference books at various times and for various activities. In the case of educational qualifications, there was a difference in using reference books and textbooks as well.