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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