Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Curriculum Development for Communicative Competence

Abstract

The aim of this research was to analyze the ESL text books of Pakistan on factors such as general criterion and teaching communicative competence. Communicative competence is extensively acknowledged as an excellent way to ensure successful language teaching programme. Communicative competence is based on instilling proficiency in the target language by improving the abilities and potential of second language learners. For this purpose, questionnaire and discussion methods were used. The questionnaire was based on certain significant elements identified from various checklists employed for material evaluation along with a section based on the four techniques of communicative competence. The completed questionnaire was submitted by 10 English teachers who were teaching at different secondary levels from 05 selected government schools, later followed by a discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of their respective textbooks. In the second phase, the four important areas of Communicative competence were analyzed by selecting and evaluating three ESL text books.