LITERACY AND NUMERACY DRIVE: AN EVALUATION OF CLASS THREE ENGLISH TEXTBOOK OF PUNJAB

This study aims to evaluate whether the English textbook taught in government schools at class three-level is satisfying students' objectives, needs, and wants according to literacy and numeracy drive (LND). The study carries two main purposes; the first purpose is to investigate the objectives of the book whether it attains to students' needs or not. Secondly, it investigates the weaknesses and strengths of the textbook to recommend a few suggestions to improve the book according to the needs of students and teachers’ expectations. For this particular work, the major areas of inquiry were practical concerns of the book, language issues, objectives compatibility, subject matter issues, skills and strategies, exercises and activities, layout and content. The findings revealed that there were significant differences between teachers' responses and student's responses and chi-square findings also exposed that students had different views with respect to teachers excluding a few items (item, 1, 10, 16, 17).