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What is the use of textbooks in a class. They are meant to supplement an education to offer references for when the student is outside the classroom and to provide an engaging resource against which students can test their knowledge. Prescribed textbooks have been frequently used in Education 10 to integrate discipline knowledge and support teachers in developing students learning outcomes Fasso et al 2014. Each chapter should have a logical flow building on the knowledge acquired in previous chapters.

Textbooks are especially helpful for beginning teachers. When asked to enlarge on this she ex-plained that one of her aims in teaching was to make her pupils aware of the biases which exist in many materials both print and audio-visual and that the. Availability of textbooks in schools in developing countries is associated with student achievement.

Effective Use of Textbooks in College Courses 4Previewing the Textbook 5Introduce the Text as a Member of the Class 6Textbook Sales Pitches Commercials 7What s Old and What s New 8Name That Feature 9Textbook Timelines 10Textbook Scavenger Hunts 11Textbook Picture Walks 12. Pupill-rarely mitiated a reference ro a rexrboa. English language textbooks are the texts written to provide instructions on what the learners should know at any given point so as to achieve proficiency in the language.

The use of a textbook in a program can ensure that the students in different classes receive similar content and therefore can be tested in the same way. Yet we know very little about how teachers actually use these textbooks to help students learn. 1Without textbooks a program may have no central core and learners may not receiveTheya hesyllabusp standardizethat has beeninstructionsystematically planned and developed.

One of the problems is that textbooks should not be the most important part of a language course as sometimes happens but try. From textbooks relatively little attention has been given to how textbooks are actually used by teachers. The material to be covered and the design of each lesson are carefully spelled out in detail.

Textbooks provide organized units of work. The teacher stated that she enjoyed using a particular textbook with her class be-cause it is so biased against women. Students do better on tests when there are textbooks in the classroom Heyneman et al.