Assessment of English as a Second Language Material with Communicative Language Teaching Principles at Primary Level in Punjab

Abstract

English is recognized as international language but in Pakistan it is considered as second language. This research is conducted on the Assessment of English as a second language (ESL) material with communicative language teaching (CLT) principles at primary level in Punjab. This research analysis is the English textbooks meet the requirements of communicative language teaching. The researcher used the descriptive survey approach to meet the goal of the research. The population of the research is the primary schools teachers of the district Okara of different demographic background. The researcher employed the systematic random sampling strategy to choose the sample and finally, 355 teachers (232 males and 123 females) of the public primary schools of the district Okara are selected as the sample of the study. A Questionnaire of three likert scale consists of 37 statements for getting the opinion of the teachers about the current states of ESL material with accordance of CLT principles is used.   SPSS software is used for the both descriptive and inferential statistical approaches. After applying statistical operations researcher analyze that the majority of the respondent are in the favor of that the current English language textbooks of the primary school of the public sector is according to the CLT principles.