Abstract
The focus of the study was that secondary school students were
not found proficient in English language and it was considered
necessary to study this problem in the context of curriculum that
required promoting all the four skills of student in English,
which included listening, speaking, reading and writing. It is
high time to have suitable curriculum of English, well
elaborated through various proper textbooks. Textbooks are the
visible, tangible and practical manifestation of the curriculum.
The data was collected through an opinionnaire from school
head and subject teachers of 9th and 10th classes in all the 104
sampled Government Boys’ High Schools in five districts namely
Abbottabad, Kohat, Mardan, Peshawar and Swat. The outcome
of the analysis of data was that the textbooks used in 9th and 10th
classes have full potential to develop the overall skills of
listening, speaking, reading and writing. Teachers of English are
unable to teach enthusiastically to meet the needs of students
due to their deficiency in speaking skills. Capacity building of
teachers who teach English has to be ensured to facilitate them
to promote all the needed skills of learning. It was suggested
that in order to facilitate teachers to promote speaking skills by
using Direct Method of teaching, the recruitment of those
persons should be made in future, as teachers in English, who
hold master’s degree in English language.
Jehangir Adil, Niaz Muhammad. (2016) Promoting Students’ English Proficiency through Curriculum at the Secondary Level , The Dialogue, Volume 11, Issue 3.
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