Education English | Textbook and The use of Textbook in English | Textbook
A textbook contains selective and systematic knowledge. Its criteria are for coherence and sequence. It is simple to be understood by the intended the learner. Not a bare statement of knowledge it uses various teaching-learning devices to fulfill the desire instructional role. In it the subject matter receives a rich dose of pedagogy including devices for practice, application, motivation and fixation of learning. Thus, a textbook is said to be “teacher in print”. It differs from ordinary book as it combines teaching-learning techniques and motives within it.
According to Encyclopedia of Educational Research (Tiwari, 2008:200) that in the modern sense and as commonly understood, the textbook is a learning instrument usually employed in schools colleges to support a program of instruction. In ordinary usage, the textbook is printed, it is non-consumable, it is hard-bound, it serves an avowed instructional purpose, and it is placed in the hands of the learners.
A textbook contains selective and systematic knowledge. Its criteria are for coherence and sequence. It is simple to be understood by the intended the learner. Not a bare statement of knowledge it uses various teaching-learning devices to fulfill the desire instructional role. In it the subject matter receives a rich dose of pedagogy including devices for practice, application, motivation and fixation of learning. Thus, a textbook is said to be “teacher in print”. It differs from ordinary book as it combines teaching-learning techniques and motives within it.
According to Encyclopedia of Educational Research (Tiwari, 2008:200) that in the modern sense and as commonly understood, the textbook is a learning instrument usually employed in schools colleges to support a program of instruction. In ordinary usage, the textbook is printed, it is non-consumable, it is hard-bound, it serves an avowed instructional purpose, and it is placed in the hands of the learners.
The Use of textbooks in English
According to Tiwari (2008: 203) that there are some the reasons which make good textbook and indispensable part of the study and teaching English.
1. Helping the teacher
Textbooks provide useful guidelines along which a teacher can plan his/her day-to-day teaching. While actually teaching in the classroom they serve as reference books. They provide suggestions for assignments. They suggest activities to be taken up in the classroom and outside. A constant stand by of the subject teacher, text-books can be used to help the teacher in finding out the new ideas.
2. Providing logical and comprehensive material
In providing material in a systematic and comprehensive form a good text sets a standard of minimum essential to be achieved by students all of categories. Giving the beginner the grasp of new matter it provides to enthusiastic students a direction for further studies.
3. Ensuring uniformity of a good standard
Provides a highway for carrying better practices to all schools the textbooks ensures some sort of uniformity of good standard. It furnishes a common basis to master the process of reading, analyzing, outlining and summarizing. It provides a common laboratory to develop study skills.
4. Providing both confirmation and sustenance
Supposed to contain the carefully sifted and examined facts a textbook can confirm the knowledge obtained elsewhere.
5. Ensuring intellectual rapprochement of peoples
Good social studies textbook coordinating the activities and bringing about the intellectual rapprochement of people can serve as organs of national coordination.
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