Effectiveness Of Textbook Based Elt Programme To Teach Selected Chapters Of English

There were many research studies carried out in the field of English Language Teaching but talking about the applicability and use of such research studies in real life situation is very difficult. Keeping this in mind, the researcher tried to carry out a need based research which would surely help the teachers and the students to do well in English language learning. The target group of the study was 10th standard board examination students and selected chapters and grammar items which are placed in the blue print of 10th standard board examination. The two schools were randomly selected for the experimental study. The students of control group were not given any treatment as they studied such contents from their regular school teacher. The pre test was administered to equal the groups. The students were made to study through activity based sessions and the target goal was to learn the selected points in interactive manner and get high achievement in English. The most important findings of the study was the positive response of the students. All of them and their teachers opined that the students learnt better and they liked the researcher’s style of making the teaching need based. Instead making it more traditional and rhetoric, the researcher made it interactive. Further, this style of teaching was compared with the tutor of coaching classes as it avoided all the formalities in language teaching. The textbook based ELT programme was effective in developing language competencies among the students of experimental group and the females and males have developed equal language achievement. Both males and females developed various language and soft skills to answer the questions correctly Key Words: Language achievement, Textbook based programme, skills, Competency